ILFI Living Product Expo

By now, you’ve likely at least heard of the Living Building Challenge, Living Product Challenge, Declaretransparency labels, and/or other rigorous certification standards created and governed by the International Living Future Institute (ILFI). Progress in achieving ILFI’s standards has been slow and steady for good reason – achieving something this difficult and fantastic requires an unwavering, persistent dedication, relentless relationship-building, and time. Finally, the buildings, products, communities and other pieces of our lives are beginning to see and feel the benefits of achieving the ILFI standards. At officeinsight, we’ve used our platform to urge readers to take interest in ILFI and its standards – check out our previously published articles on ILFI, appended to the end of this feature. If the 4thLiving Product Expo, hosted by ILFI in Pittsburgh last week, had one message, it’s that the Living Product Challenge is finally gaining traction and entering the common nomenclature of architecture, …