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Specs-tacular. Hampshire College met
its goal of building the R.W. Kern Center,
a green classroom and administration
facility, partly due to product Declare
labels provided by ASSA ABLOY.

CREDIT: ROBERT BENSON

ASSA ABLOY

Door Security Solutions

How safe is that building component? Just read the AADSS label.

ASSA ABLOY Door Security Solutions oers a wide selection of Achieving this goal requires selection of building products with
door and hardware brands, as well as the services of consultative transparency statements that openly list material ingredients. Finding
door opening experts for contractors, builders and end-users in products with transparency labels can be a challenge, according to
multi-family, commercial, retail, government and institutional ASSA ABLOY.
facilities. The parent company (https://bit.ly/2osPXXg) has ASSA ABLOY helped the construction rm building the Kern
47,500 employees in 70 countries and is based in Stockholm, Center, Wright Builders, by providing Declare labels that list material
Sweden. The North America headquarters is in New Haven, Conn. ingredients for its products.
I N KEEPING WITH its environmentally focused ideals, to know immediately whether or not the product will meet most
“The labels allow architects, designers, speciers and builders
Amherst, Mass.-based liberal arts school Hampshire College
green building guidelines, including the Living Building Chal-
lenge,” says Andrew Solem, assistant project manager for Wright
wanted to construct a new, sustainably sensitive classroom
and administration facility.
According to ASSA
ABLOY officials, the R.W. Kern “With global reach comes Builders.
They’re an Eco-Leader because...
Center at Hampshire College was global responsibility.
constructed in accordance with Sustainability is an ■ ASSA ABLOY ensures suppliers are audited for their practices, products are
the Living Building Challenge designed with efficiency in mind, and manufacturing sites are reviewing their
(LBC), the built environment’s important element in overall carbon footprints each year. This is done in addition to achievement of
most rigorous sustainability per- innovation, sourcing, industry standards such as ISO 14001.
formance standard. production, employee ■ Electrified solutions have been designed and delivered to use less energy
The intent of the LBC is to build and, in some cases, can be offered as a complete regenerative product—
structures free from harmful development, in applying pulling no power from the grid.
chemicals, protecting those who ASSA ABLOY’s products and ■ Exterior opening solutions offer superior protection against the
live and work within, builders, solutions, and in relation to transmission of heat and cold, providing efficiency, savings and overall load
workers who produce the build- external stakeholders.” and footprint reduction.
ing materials, and the environ- ■ Door and accessory products have been GREENGUARD Gold certified,
ment as a whole. To achieve this, Amy Vigneux, director of demonstrating low levels of chemical off-gassing—important for the health
a structure must avoid building sustainable building of people inside the built environment.
products—including door open- solutions, ASSA ABLOY ■ As a way to support the greater demand for human health and product
ings—containing Red List chemi- transparency, hundreds of ASSA ABLOY products offer information
cals, such as alkylphenols, asbestos, lead, mercury and wood treat- regarding their environmental and human health impacts, in the form of
ments with creosote. EPDs, HPDs and Declare labels.

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