Green Building Products Coalition (GBPC)

The Construction Specifications Institute, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and GreenBlue are forming the Green Building Products Coalition (GBPC). Its first meeting will take place on May 11 in Philadelphia, PA.
The GBPC will allow building product manufacturers to leverage their collective expertise and develop a common framework for innovation and implementation. Its goal is to create a credible forum for the building products supply chain in which to discuss, define, reach consensus on, and communicate how product-level improvements can support system-level sustainability.
The GBPC will connect the building products industry and its supply chains with environmental and health experts, government agencies, standards and certification bodies and other key stakeholders.  It could provide education and create the resources and tools required to help the industry make better informed decisions and increase innovation in product design and manufacturing.  The Coalition could also facilitate better and more transparent communication between building product manufacturers and building system architects, specifiers and contractors.