Green building

Deliver certified, sustainable projects with Hilti green building supplies and documentation

Do you need to design according to the latest environmental codes? Are you looking to obtain points towards green building schemes such as LEED, WELL and LBC?

We provide construction solutions that are externally certified to meet health and environmental standards. You'll benefit from easy-to-access, comprehensive third-party documentation that helps make delivering certified, sustainable projects easier than ever.

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Why build green with Hilti?

Contribute to lower CO2 emissions

Green building practices are a key strategy for meeting the challenge of climate change including reduction of CO2 emissions. Investments in energy-saving and other climate-friendly technologies also help create buildings and communities that are healthier places to live and work while helping reduce the risk of sick building syndrome.

At the same time, green building certification offers transparency on the environmentally-friendly credentials of buildings. Possible benefits include lower building operating costs thanks to alternative energy sources, higher building values and returns on investment, and increased rents.

Our green building solutions can help you obtain up to:

Up to 4 x

LEED points
for healthy and environmentally friendly products

7 x

WELL points
and 3 WELL preconditions for material safety and transparency

Green building credits

Obtain documentation for third-party schemes

To make it easier for you to gain points for green building schemes, we offer close to 300 product declarations ranging from environmental product declarations (EPDs) to volatile organic compound (VOC) certificates. These cover all our product groups including firestop and chemical anchors.

You can find these declarations on the relevant product page of our online catalog or search our website by document type. If the document you need is not yet available, get in touch with us.

Documenting green building supplies

Recognizing if a construction material is ‘green’ is through third-party certifications, which offer transparency.

Hilti conducts testing to measure the environmental impact of our cproducts on an ongoing basis, which has resulted in a comprehensive database of supporting documentation for our products.

Key green building certificate types

Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs)

Voluntary, independently verified documentation of a product's life-cycle environmental impact

Download EPDs

Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) Emissions Certificates

Statement of any harmful substances released by a product, and an indication if they fall within allowable limits

Download VOC emissions certificates

Cradle to Cradle Material Health Certificates (C2C MHC)

Evidence that a product is manufactured using safer substances and avoids banned chemicals

Download C2C MHCs

Living Building Challenge (LBC)

Hilti can provide a Red List 3.1 Compliance Letter for chemical firestop and adhesive anchoring products that do not contain red-list banned chemicals.

Life Cycle Analysis (LCA)

Measurement of a product's impact on the environment and human health at all stages from raw material extraction to use and disposal. Often accepted in place of an EPD

Corporate Sustainability Reports (CSR)

Independently-verified statement on the impact of building products on human health and environment

Sustainability at Hilti

Our green building documentation includes:

	LEED	WELL	LBC
Volatile organic compounds (VOC) VOC content/emissions certificates (using the CDPH v 1.2 2017 test method)	✓	✓
Environmental product data Environmental product declaration (EPD) Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)	✓
Product health data Cradle to Cradle® Material Health Certificate (C2C MHC) Health Product Declaration (HPD) Manufacturer Inventory REACH Statement Restricted substances DECLARE labels Red List 3.1 compliance	✓	✓	✓
Material efficiency Recycled content Reusable materials	✓
Responsible sourcing and manufacturing UN Global Compact CSR ISO 14001 Certificate	✓

Our sustainability approach

From our goal to be carbon neutral by 2023 to product recycling initiatives and employee volunteer programs, Hilti has sustainability as part of its core purpose.

Reduce waste with BIM services

Upfront planning and modeling of your project using Building Information Modeling (BIM) design services can help you minimize construction waste and control costs.

Discover the benefits of BIM

Our online Engineering Center

Ask questions, read technical articles on design issues and watch on-demand webinars, or take part in continuing education courses (including Green Building 101).

Visit the Engineering Center Green Building 101 webinar

Half of construction industry professionals expect the majority of their projects to be 'green' within three years¹

Certification requirements continue to push green building towards the industry standard, and latest efforts go far beyond energy efficiency. For example, newer LEED® credits incentivize sourcing environmentally responsible products, whereas the WELL Building standard focuses on the overall impact of building design and operation on human health and well-being.

From anchors to firestop, Hilti is actively re-engineering and reformulating most building components according to green certification criteria. We are removing hazardous substances, minimizing emissions, increasing recycled content and, as always, striving to source raw materials responsibly.

This new generation of healthier, greener construction materials is supported by detailed documentation and third-party sustainability credentials.

References

[1] According to the World Green Building Trends Report 2018 by Dodge Data and Analytics