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Top Glass Seminar – New tools for life cycle analysis

Helen Sanders of Technoform Group will discuss new Product Category Rules (PCR) developed by the industry that define the rules for doing a Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) and creating an Environmental Product Declaration for fabricated glass and windows. EPDs in combination with ingredient transparency labels such as Health Product Declarations and Declare are forming the cornerstone of a new green building paradigm that seeks to track the environmental impact of building materials from resource extraction right through fabrication, use, reuse and disposal and human health considerations of the materials used to manufacture such products. Sanders will describe how process and material transparency have become important parts of such common green building standards as LEED version 4, and how designers and fabricators can use these tools to achieve compliance with these standards.

About the speaker
Currently, she is responsible for technical business development at Technoform Glass Insulation, developing strategic markets and relationships. She is an active member of a number of industry organizations, serving on the board of the Insulating Glass Manufacturers Alliance (IGMA) and as chair of IGMA’s Emerging Technologies and Innovation Committee, the Glazing Industry Code Committee, and ASTM’s Chromogenic Glazings task group. During the last 17 years of her 22-year career in the glass industry, Sanders has been involved in creating and developing a new market for electrochromic (EC) glazing and in EC product development and commercialization. Most recently, she served vice president of technical business development at SAGE Electrochromics, a wholly owned subsidiary of Saint-Gobain. Sanders earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in natural sciences (chemistry), and her doctorate in surface science from the University of Cambridge, England. She also completed the Minnesota Executive Program through the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management.

TOPIC / The Life of Glass: life cycle analysis and material transparency and how this will change the way we develop, manufacture and market our products

Presenter / Helen Sanders, Technoform Glass Insulation