“Our team at NSF International looks forward to the growth and continued partnership with the Natural Stone Institute in support of the implementation of the Natural Stone Sustainability Standard," said Suzan Somo, environmental products business lead at NSF. "As the building industry continues to value sustainable products and practices, this standard provides essential opportunities to quarry operators and stone fabricators to assess their internal practices, drive efficiencies and attain preferred status in their markets.

Brittany Storm (MAPEI Corporation), chair of the Natural Stone Sustainability Standard joint committee, commented: “Working closely with the ANSI/NSI 373 Natural Dimension Stone Joint Committee, we are navigating a path through the ever changing tides of sustainability using the Natural Stone Sustainability Standard as our guide. More than just a way to comply with requirements, we hope updates to the Standard continue to give quarriers, producers and distributors a roadmap to have greener processes/procedures.”

Companies ready to certify to the standard and design teams interested in learning more about the metrics of the standard and how to source sustainably produced natural stone for their projects are encouraged to visit www.naturalstoneinstitute.org/sustainability