Ratings & Policy
Find where a product credential earns points or counts, and what each rating tool or policy accepts.
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Australia and New Zealand
Which credential?
- Aluminium Stewardship Initiative
- BEP PVC
- BES 6001
- Blue Angel
- CARES Sustainable Constructional Steel
- Carpet Institute
- Climate Active
- Concrete Sustainability Council
- Cradle to Cradle Certified
- Declare
- Eco Choice Aotearoa
- EMICODE
- EPD
- EPD Australasia
- EU Ecolabel
- FSC
- GECA
- Global GreenTag
- Global Organic Textile Standard
- Global Responsible Textile Standard
- Green Seal
- Health Product Declaration
- International EPD System
- Living Product Challenge
- Nordic Swan
- PEFC
- Product Carbon Footprint
- Responsible Steel
- Responsible Wood
- SCS Standards
- Steel Sustainability Australia
- Sustainable Forestry Initiative
- UL GREENGUARD
- AFRDI Green Tick
- CDPH Standard Method
- CEN
- ISO
- LEVEL
- NaturePlus (GreenCollar)
- PACT
2 credentials, in BREEAM International NC v6.0, superseded. Clear selection
Aluminium Stewardship Initiative
Where it earns points or counts, rating tool by rating tool. About Aluminium Stewardship Initiative
Credit names, credential names and conditions are in each rating tool's or policy's own words, shown where its publisher's terms allow.
BREEAM International NC v6.0, supersededRating tool
Mat 03 criterion 5 (responsible sourcing, Step 1.3); GN18 Table 1
- Status
- Accepted with conditions
- Named as
- 'ASI Certified Performance', with 'ASI Certified Chain of Custody'
- Edition named
- Not stated by the tool
- Level
- 5 · RSCS summary score level (scale 1 to 10)
- On what basis
- per construction product, entered in the BREEAM International Mat 03 tool
- Products
- aluminium (metal)
- Scope
- In-scope products above the cut-off volume (CN3.3). Downstream organisations without certification must “meet” (BREEAM’s word) the broken chain rules (CN3.4).
- Conditions
- both ASI Certified Performance and ASI Certified Chain of Custody
- provisional certification does not count
- aluminium originates from a casthouse that is a certified ASI Member and/or a subsequent supplier that is a certified ASI Member
- additional requirement included in project documents and evidence that installed products fulfil it
- product “compliant” (BREEAM’s word) with broken chain requirements (CN3.4) where downstream organisations lack their own certification
- Source
- BREEAM International NC v6.0, superseded · Mat 03 · p. 285, 292, 293 (manual); 2, 3 (GN18)
CARES Sustainable Constructional Steel
Where it earns points or counts, rating tool by rating tool. About CARES Sustainable Constructional Steel
Credit names, credential names and conditions are in each rating tool's or policy's own words, shown where its publisher's terms allow.
BREEAM International NC v6.0, supersededRating tool
Mat 03 criterion 5 (Step 1.3); GN18 Table 1
- Status
- Accepted with conditions
- Named as
- All
- Edition named
- Not stated by the tool
- Level
- 5 · RSCS summary score level (scale 1 to 10)
- On what basis
- per construction product, entered in the BREEAM International Mat 03 tool
- Products
- constructional steel
- Scope
- In-scope products above the cut-off volume. Broken chain rules apply (CN3.4).
- Conditions
- certified under the CARES Sustainable Constructional Steel Scheme
- scores zero where the product is non-“compliant” (BREEAM’s word) with the broken chain requirements (Step 1.3, p. 285): organisations downstream of the certified one may lack their own certification only if they only handle or transport, or only fabricate, assemble or install under a recognised quality management system that prevents mixing with uncertified sources and operate in a jurisdiction with robust, well-enforced environmental, social and economic controls (CN3.4, p. 284)
- Source
- BREEAM International NC v6.0, superseded · Mat 03 · p. 284, 285, 293 (manual); 1, 2 (GN18)
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