Overcome the Material Acquisition Audit Burden
Every Architect, Builder, and Sustainability Expert faces a dual mandate: achieve aggressive environmental goals while simultaneously hitting tight budgets and firm timelines. As regulations tighten and clients demand verifiable sustainable sourcing, "good design" is now impossible without data transparency.
The Problem: The volume of required documentation—EPDs, HPDs, technical specs—turns the task of sustainable sourcing into a grueling administrative obstacle course. This is the Material Acquisition Audit Burden.
For Procurement Managers and Designers, the manual effort of cross-referencing every product on price, performance, and ESG variables drains resources and slows critical design iteration.
The Promise of BuildBetter.Earth: We remove this audit burden entirely. BuildBetter.Earth provides the AI-powered clarity needed to source with confidence, transforming purchasing from a source of frustration into a powerful mechanism for better design, greater efficiency, and a better-built future.
The gap between sustainability aspirations and day-to-day purchasing realities is wide, crippled by two operational challenges: data fragmentation and the high cost of manual material audits.
The Costly Quagmire: Vetting the Three P's (Performance, Price, Provenance)
To meet stringent certifications and corporate ESG goals, Architects and Sourcers must manually verify complex documents for every product:
- Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs): Quantify embodied carbon (GWP)—a core metric for climate goals.
- Material Health Certifications: Confirm the absence of toxic chemicals (e.g., Red List Free, Declare) and support healthy-building specifications.
- Sourcing and Social Data: Evaluate circularity, fair labor, responsible manufacturing, and other ESG indicators.
Attempting to cross-reference thousands of product options using siloed spreadsheets wastes high-value professional time. The core problem we solve is the elimination of this repetitive, time-consuming Material Acquisition Audit Burden.
Why ESG Due Diligence Fails at Scale
For Sustainability Experts conducting Whole Building Life Cycle Assessments (WBLCAs) or material vetting, inconsistent data formats are a nightmare. Even products with EPDs are often incomparable because they were generated using different standards or data sets.
Without a single, trusted source of normalized data, teams risk choosing products that look good on carbon but carry hidden risks in other categories, like high water toxicity.
The industry doesn’t need more documents—it needs actionable, harmonized data.
BuildBetter.Earth is the integrated solution designed to resolve material sourcing complexity. By combining proprietary data with advanced AI, we compress months of fragmented research into instantaneous, high-confidence decisions.
AI-Powered Product Discovery: Sourcing Confidence, Not Chaos
Our Verified Product Transparency engine isn’t just a catalog—it’s an intelligence layer built specifically for the AEC industry.
The system's core advantage for Sourcers and Architects is its ability to:
- Filter and Compare by ESG Variables: Instantly compare materials based on carbon footprint, material health, and supply chain standards, all standardized in one dashboard—eliminating external research.
- Streamline Vetting: Our one-stop platform combines performance, sustainability, and sourcing data using AI-powered tools to accelerate decision-making—saving valuable time, staying within budget, and meeting the project vision.
By consolidating everything into one intelligent system, your team can redirect time toward design quality and value creation—not administrative research.