A&D Materials Pledge By the Numbers (RY25): What Three Years of Trends Reveal About Materials Selection
Join AIA Materials Pledge leaders to learn beginner steps for holistic material selection, how the reporting framework supports firms at any stage, and what the RY25 report reveals about materials data from 148 signatory firms.
About the live course
How can architects and designers take action in selecting sustainable materials? With competing priorities from clients and project teams to a whole world of product and project-level certifications, responsible material selection is hard to navigate. The AIA Materials Pledge provides a framework for architects and designers to begin to chart progress in data transparency and optimization across the five impact categories: human health, social health and equity, ecosystem health, climate health, and circular economy.
Join AIA Materials Pledge leadership for this webinar, where speakers will focus on beginner steps for designers to take in thinking about holistic material health. They will then speak about how the AIA Materials Pledge reporting framework can support firms at any stage of their materials journey. Finally, they will provide an overview of this year's third annual Materials Pledge By the Numbers (RY25) report, looking at reported materials data from 148 signatory firms.
The presenters will close the session by reflecting on the post-reporting survey, finding and providing updates on next year's reporting.
- Explain what 148 signatories, 537 projects, and three cycles of data now show about where firms are strong.
- Compare their firm's likely knowledge profile against the RY25 benchmarks, especially the finding that large-firm leadership fluency lags badly while small firms report near-universal leadership knowledge.
- Identify the role of architects in selecting materials that address one or more of the five impact categories: human health, social health and equity, ecosystem health, climate health, and circular economy.
- Identify key strategies for better data collection and tracking as well as improving performance to meet the five goals of the Materials Pledge program.
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