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 various, 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 concerning the environmental footprint of merchandise all through their complete life cycle, from uncooked materials sourcing to product finish of life. To ascertain the merchandise’ carbon-negative designation, LP developed life cycle assessments (LCAs) and EPDs for every product in keeping 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 supply 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 embrace the next:

• Ensured 100% of wooden fiber was sourced by stringent forest certification requirements
• Continued to give attention to 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 price under 1.0 since 2007, profitable 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 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 sensible 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 staff members and their households

To learn LP’s 2023 Sustainability Report, go to lpcorp.com/sustainability.