Our partners help us to elevate our focus on sustainability and realize our goals. They are part of our extended family, and we have worked with many of these brands — and their people — for a decade or more to deliver sustainable and innovative products for our homes.
We work with our industry partners and sustainability leaders on strategies to drive sustainability throughout the value chain, helping to reduce carbon emissions and manage climate risk. With their partnership, we are able to build sustainable homes at a lower cost and with less environmental impact. Our strategies include lowering the embodied carbon of building products and supporting circular solutions. For example, we seek out products that provide independent sustainability assessment, like the Cradle to Cradle (C2C) Certified® Products Program. C2C offers an independent, third-party assessment of a product’s performance against rigorous standards and evaluates both a company’s products and operations based on material health, material reutilization, renewable energy, water stewardship and social fairness. Several of our national suppliers participate in the C2C certification process, including our flooring partner, Shaw®; our solar panel partner, SunPower®; and our paint partner, Sherwin-Williams®.
of our national supplier agreements include an obligation to acknowledge our Ethics Policy
of independent construction service providers required to wear protective equipment at construction sites
of our new national supplier agreements entered into after April 2021 reference our Supplier Code of Conduct, which sets environmental and social principles, guidelines and standards with respect to the supply of the products and materials that we use in our business