Common Ground, Consensus Building and Continual Improvement: International Standards and Sustainable Building

This publication, Common Ground, Consensus Building, and Continual Improvement: Standards and Sustainable Building, contains papers presented at the first international symposium of the same name held in Washington, DC, on 19-20 April, 2007. The symposium was sponsored by the ASTM International Committee E06 on Performance of Buildings, Subcommittee E06.71 on Sustainability. The symposium co-chairs were Alison Kinn Bennett, EPA and Dru Meadows, theGreenTeam, Inc.The symposium, a first of its kind, brought together governments, professional organizations, trade organizations, industry, standard developing organizations, and environmental organizations in a discussion about current and developing sustainable building and product standards. Furthermore, the symposium highlighted opportunities and needs for coordination and consensus in the marketplace. Twenty-three papers were presented at the symposium. This book contains a selection of 13 symposium papers published by the Journal of ASTM International "JAI". JAI is an online, peer-reviewed journal for the international scientific and engineering community. Publication in JAI allows rapid dissemination of the papers as soon as they become available, while publication in this Special Technical Publication "STP" is intended to provide easy access to the condensed information in a single volume for future reference.