Benchmarking and Assessment
Data is power!
You cannot measure progress without first establishing a baseline. To do this, use Habitable’s Informed Product Guidance to benchmark the healthy materials baseline of your current or past projects. Benchmarking is quick and easy to complete using our assessment form and empowers project teams to establish a current baseline, identify opportunities for improvement, and track progress towards healthy materials goals. Informed™ benchmarking follows our product guidance recommendations: step up from red to prefer product types ranked yellow and green.
Advanced Analysis
Beyond benchmarking, Informed™ data can enable advanced analysis resulting in qualitative and quantitative impact metrics.
Our team can help you estimate the weight of hazardous chemicals avoided across spaces or project portfolios, develop customized reporting for stakeholder communications, or access our healthy products data through an API for integration with your existing workflows.
For assistance with advanced analysis, contact our team to explore these expanded capabilities.
Informed Revit Plug-in: Product Guidance That’s Always at Your Fingertips
Imagine never having to break your design workflow to find trusted product guidance. Imagine having a simple red-to-green product ranking system that provides reliable answers always at your fingertips. Imagine having the material health impacts of your product selections color-coded in your 3D models.
That’s the vision for Habitable’s Informed Revit plug-in. Developed in partnership with Autodesk, we piloted the plug-in last year with 16 leading architecture firms, including Multistudio, Cannon Design, and MSR Architects.
Feedback confirmed the plug-in makes it easier for designers to prioritize healthier, more sustainable choices. Pilot participants also reported the plug-in helped strengthen the business case for healthy materials and positioned projects to meet critical industry commitments like the AIA Materials Pledge and LEED.
Most importantly, by moving selection of healthier products upstream in the design process, the pilot demonstrated that teams can identify healthier options before decisions are locked in.
Visualization of elementary school using Informed Revit plug-in (design by Multistudio)
“As a team, we saw value in how the plug-in connects complex material impact data to a simplified, intuitive selection—so impactful it restructured our firmwide sustainability approach.”
Learnings from the pilot have helped us prioritize improvements, like expanding the product libraries and reporting capabilities. Drop us a line and we’ll keep you posted on plans for the roll-out.
Or if you’re interested in helping shape the next phase of development, contact us to join our advisory panel.