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Flooring Product Guidance
Healthy Building Network: Insulation Guidance
Healthy Building Network Guidance - Cabinetry and Millwork
Healthy Building Network Guidance - Roofing
Plastics in Construction - Introductory Q&A guide
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Gender mainstreaming
Gender mainstreaming supports both men's and women's equal contributions through policies and programs that address their specific needs. It has been defined by the United Nations Economic and Social Council as ‘a strategy for making women’s as well as
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Sustainable Public Procurement
Public procurement wields enormous purchasing power, accounting for an average of 12 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) in countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), and up to 30 per cent of GDP in many
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Sustainable Development Goals
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations in September 2015. The SDGs aim to meet the dual challenge of overcoming poverty and protecting the
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Circularity
Circularity challenges the current economic model towards a sustainable future
Circular processes contributing to circularity can be grouped into 4 categories, from the most impactful to the least:
1. Reduce by design: reducing the amount of material used, particularly raw material
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Chemicals in building products
Building products are a highly variable product group encompassing a diverse range of materials in different applications, such as steel, concrete or wood but also plastic and polymer materials in insulation foam or epoxy resins. Like many other products, these
