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ecospecifier is an award-winning knowledge base of over 1000 environmentally preferable building materials and technologies.

ecospecifier is an award-winning knowledge base of over 1000 environmentally preferable building materials and technologies, led by Natural Integrated Living Directors David Baggs, Mary-Lou Kelly, and National Manager Hal Dobbins. Linking independent information with a powerful search interface, ecospecifier does your materials research for you, delivering innovative solutions with a unique difference. Designed to help designers, builders, consultants and those looking to deliver a best practice design, ecospecifier can help reduce environmental impacts and create healthier and more productive living and working environments.

ecospecifier is more than a database however, providing information on how to design and deliver buildings, interiors and surrounds using environmentally preferable products available in Australia. The extensive product database is complemented by the educational knowledge-base component of ecospecifier that provides in-depth reporting on difficult topics within the Green Building Movement specially pertaining to the environmental and health issues surrounding materials.

ecospecifier is designed to serve its users by providing an easy to navigate source of independently verified, scientifically-based assessment of environmentally responsible building and fit-out materials and technologies. A key aim of the service is to empower specifiers to improve their decision-making processes with regard to materials selection for projects in the built environment and to increase the potential for and ease of the inclusion of eco and health-preferable materials in these projects. By partnering with a number of organisations across Australia, ecospecifier is more easily able to expose the service to the industry and the public at large.