LP Constructing Options (LP) launched its 2023 Sustainability Report detailing the corporate’s environmental, social, and governance (ESG) efficiency.
“Our historical past has taught us the important function sustainable constructing supplies play in long-term resilience,” stated Brad Southern, chair and chief govt officer of LP. “By engineering our merchandise for sturdiness, we allow prospects to construct extra resilient properties. By harvesting responsibly, we assist promote forest resilience. By constructing and creating a extra numerous, engaged, and extremely expert workforce, we construct a extra resilient and aggressive firm.”
In 2023, LP accomplished 5 environmental product declarations (EPDs) for its Structural Options portfolio, which incorporates LP Legacy® Premium Sub-Flooring. EPDs present transparency to shoppers in regards to the environmental footprint of merchandise all through their whole life cycle, from uncooked materials sourcing to product finish of life. To determine the merchandise’ carbon-negative designation, LP developed life cycle assessments (LCAs) and EPDs for every product in step with internationally acknowledged protocols and requirements, together with ISO requirements. LP started the EPD course of in 2022 to find out the cradle-to-grave vitality, gas and supplies wanted to provide and distribute LP® Structural Options merchandise in North America. As soon as accomplished, the LCAs and EPDs underwent third-party validation by ASTM Worldwide.
Highlights from LP’s 2023 Sustainability Report embody the next:
- Ensured 100% of wooden fiber was sourced by means of stringent forest certification requirements
- Continued to deal with renewable vitality, deriving 80 p.c of all thermal vitality utilized in product manufacturing from renewable sources
- Achieved one other 12 months of robust security efficiency with a world-class complete incident fee under 1.0 since 2007, successful 4 security awards, and attaining 1 million recordable-free hours for the sixteenth time throughout its websites
- Enhanced workforce variety and belonging with the introduction of the inclusion coaching program Constructing a Higher LP
- Supported communities by means of the LP Basis grant program, reaching 130 nonprofits throughout the U.S. and Canada, and introduced a nationwide partnership with the Gary Sinise Basis’s R.I.S.E. program, which builds mortgage-free, specifically tailored good properties for America’s most severely wounded veterans
- Accomplished its plan to open LP Well being and Wellness Facilities at 11 of its services, providing free or low-cost well being care completely to LP crew members and their households
To learn LP’s 2023 Sustainability Report, go to lpcorp.com/sustainability.