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For AECOs: Standardize high-performance material selection in your organization
By: Sustainable Minds • Oct 31, 2025
Collaboratively create your materials knowledge base. Designed to support new workflows for how your organization wants to work.
Introducing the Accelerator Release!
Automating the capture and standardization of materials knowledge to transform product specs into project insights.
PB&L’s Accelerator Release turns product lists into a searchable, auditable organizational knowledge base. Bulk-upload hundreds of products at one time and auto-match products to the Transparency Catalog to reveal reporting contributions (CMF, LEED v5, AIA Materials Pledge). In one click, export transparency document packages for submittals and sustainability reporting.
Set up Live Guidelines that run continually to ensure selecting products with your required transparency criteria. Your team chooses which to add to Projects & Libraries. Guidelines can be created per MasterFormat® section to ensure the specification of products that meet your organization’s material goals.
Designed with input and evaluation from 100s of building industry pros, AECOs can now collaboratively capture knowledge & experience to build their own: • Internal digital product libraries / knowledge bases • Projects, project templates and product collections …according to your own selection criteria with live, up-to-date product and transparency content.
Libraries are where people in your organization can save your favorite products. Projects are containers for products where teams can collaboratively research, evaluate and select brands and products. • Specific entire projects • Room types • Specific selection criteria • MasterFormat section expert’s choices
This is a knowledge base for ALL materials, not just high-performance. Add any MFRs and their products. If they’re not in the catalog, it’s because (most likely) they don’t have EPDs and/or material disclosures for the North American market. We’re making it easy for you to audit and substitute products that do. It’s how we’re helping to mainstream high-performance material selection.
Real-time CMF, AIA Material Pledge and LEED v5 status reports
Real-time Common Materials Framework (CMF) status reports automatically categorize all project sustainability documents by their corresponding CMF impact areas. This ensures seamless data flow from your selected products directly into dynamic reports, offering insights through different reporting perspectives.
The Reports tab includes real-time reports for your entire project, the AIA Materials Pledge and four LEED v5 materials credits: BPSP, MEP, Other and Low-emitting.
Project Builder & Library operationalizes product selection and closes the gaps in workflow, data and tools between each stage – from design to specification, planning, building and management – revolutionizing the end-to-end process for teams.
Try Project Builder & Library! Get a Free Transparency Catalog account and get notified about evaluating for your organization. OR, get in touch to schedule a demo for your team.
You can now get started using the Transparency Catalog, the leading building & construction products platform for high performance, low embodied carbon buildings.