General Sustainability
General sustainability addresses not only sustainability in standards, but covers areas such as water, transit and lighting. This category covers many topics of where sustainability can be addressed.
ISO Guide 82:2019
Guidelines for addressing sustainability in standards
This document provides guidance to standards developers on how to take account of sustainability in the drafting, revision and updating of ISO standards and similar deliverables. It outlines a methodology that ISO standards developers can use to develop their own approach to addressing sustainability on a subject-specific basis.
ISO 20400:2017
Sustainable procurement - Guidance
ISO 20400:2017 provides guidance to organizations, independent of their activity or size, on integrating sustainability within procurement, as described in ISO 26000. It is intended for stakeholders involved in, or impacted by, procurement decisions and processes.
ISO 13065:2015
Sustainability criteria for bioenergy
ISO 13065:2015 specifies principles, criteria and indicators for the bioenergy supply chain to facilitate assessment of environmental, social and economic aspects of sustainability.
ISO 13065:2015 is applicable to the whole supply chain, parts of a supply chain or a single process in the supply chain. ISO 13065:2015 applies to all forms of bioenergy, irrespective of raw material, geographical location, technology or end use.
ISO 13065:2015 does not establish thresholds or limits and does not describe specific bioenergy processes and production methods. Compliance with ISO 13065:2015 does not determine the sustainability of processes or products.
ISO 13065:2015 is intended to facilitate comparability of various bioenergy processes or products. It can also be used to facilitate comparability of bioenergy and other energy options.
ISO/IEC 19395:2015
Information technology - Sustainability for and by information technology - Smart data centre resource monitoring and control
ISO/IEC 19395:2015 provides Messages that facilitate integrated or "smart" monitoring and control of Resources in those islands. The Messages are exchanged between the Management Function and Resources. ISO/IEC 19395:2015 acknowledges that those Resources may be composed of other Resources (e.g. a rack may contain servers, ventilators, etc.). In addition, e.g. those servers may be viewed from their computing, energy consumption or dissipation aspects which ISO/IEC 19395:2015 models as Resource Components and groups into IT, power and fluid Domains, respectively.
ISO/IEC TR 30132-1:2016
Information technology - Information technology sustainability - Energy efficient computing models - Part 1: Guidelines for energy effectiveness evaluation
ISO/IEC TR 30132-1:2016 establishes guidelines for improving the energy effectiveness for computing models. Specifically, this document provides
- a reference computing model for evaluating end-to-end energy effectiveness,
- a holistic framework for evaluating the applicability of energy effectiveness improving technologies, and
- guidelines for evaluating energy effectiveness.
IES DG-22-12
Design Guide for Sustainable Lighting: An Introduction to the Environmental Impacts of Lighting
The intent of this Design Guide is to introduce the topic of sustainability, present its elements, and explain how it affects the design of lighting in process and product. This document is structured into two major sections. Section 1.0 introduces sustainable design and lighting impacts. Section 2.0 is an overview of sustainable lighting design and describes nine elements that address the central issues facing the lighting practitioner today. The next three sections (annexes) are organized into areas that address assessment and life cycle stages of lighting.
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ISO/IEC TS 17021-8:2019
Conformity assessment - Requirements for bodies providing audit and certification of management systems - Part 8: Competence requirements for auditing and certification of management systems for sustainable development in communities
This document specifies additional competence requirements for personnel involved in the audit and certification process of a management system for sustainable development in communities and complements the existing requirements of ISO/IEC 17021-1.
ISO/TR 37121:2017
Sustainable development in communities - Inventory of existing guidelines and approaches on sustainable development and resilience in cities
ISO/TR 37121:2016 provides an inventory of existing guidelines and approaches on sustainable development and resilience in cities.
ISO/TR 37121:2016 focuses on resilience understood as the ability of a city, system, community, local government or society exposed to hazards to resist, absorb, accommodate to and recover from the effects of a hazard in a timely and efficient manner, including through the preservation and restoration of its essential basic structures and functions.
Resilience indicators are intended to assess the extent to which cities are helping residents, businesses, institutions, and infrastructure resist, absorb, accommodate to and recover from the effects of hazards in a timely and efficient manner.
ASCE MOP 137/WEF MOP 38-2018
Sustainability and Energy Management for Water Resource Recovery Facilities
WEF MOP 38 / ASCE MOP 137 describes the best practices for evaluating and improving the energy management and sustainability of water resource recovery facilities.
NSF/AWWA/ANSI 416-2017
Sustainability Standard for Water Treatment Chemical Products
The purpose of this Standard is to provide a framework for collecting data and communicating information on the sustainable attributes of a water treatment chemical product, whether repackaged, elabeled and/or distributed and can be from one or more facilities (locations). Establishes a consistent approach to the evaluation and determination of environmentally preferable and sustainable chemical product manufacturing processes, water treatment chemical products, distributors, repackagers, and relabelers of chemical products. This Standard was developed as a collaborative partnership with the American Water Works Association and NSF International.
ANSI/BIFMA e3-2019
Furniture Sustainability Standard
This standard provides a pathway towards sustainability by establishing measurable criteria for multiple levels of achievement and/or performance.This standard is applicable to all business and institutional furniture; this includes but is not limited to moveable walls, systems furniture, case goods, tables, seating, and accessories. The standard is also applicable to assemblies and components manufactured by suppliers to furniture manufacturers.
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APTA-SUDS-CC-RP-003-12 [2012]
Quantifying Reporting Transit Sustainability Metrics
This Recommended Practice provides guidance for reporting and tracking key indicators of sustainability for transit agency signatories to the APTA Sustainability Commitment.
APTA-SUDS-CC-RP-004-11 [2011]
Transit Sustainability Guidelines
This Recommended Practice introduces guidelines for designing and operating sustainable transit that both reduces a communityÆs environmental footprint from transportation and enhances its quality of life by making travel more enjoyable, affordable and timely.
ISO 20611:2018
Adventure tourism - Good practices for sustainability - Requirements and recommendations
This document provides requirements and recommendations for adventure tourism activity providers on good practices for sustainability (environmental, social and economic aspects) for adventure tourism activities.
This document can be used by all types and sizes of adventure tourism activity providers, operating in different geographic, cultural and social environments.
ISO 21401:2018
Tourism and related services - Sustainability management system for accommodation establishments - Requirements
This document specifies environmental, social and economic requirements to implement a sustainability management system in accommodation establishments in the tourism sector.
This document applies to the aspects that can be controlled by the accommodation establishments and over which they can exert influence.
This document is applicable to any accommodation establishment, regardless of its type, size or location, that wishes to:
a) implement, maintain and improve sustainable practices in their operations;
b) ensure conformance with its defined sustainability policy.
MTS 2007:2
Sustainable Product Standards© Teaching Guide
This Standard specifies requirements for certified sustainable textile.
UL 2710 Ed. 1-2017
Outline of Investigation for Sustainability for Portable Electronic Products
This first issue of the Outline of Investigation for Sustainability for Portable Electronic Products, UL 2710. This outline is designed to reduce adverse environmental and social impacts associated with the design, manufacture, use, and end of life management of portable electronic products as well as to establish a set of multi-sustainability performance criteria to address the life cycle impacts of the product that may be used to evaluate the sustainability performance of portable electronic products.
DSP-CS-19
Alternative Sustainable Plating for Electrical Connectors
This case study describes how the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Land and Maritime partnered with industry to help develop specifications for three new finishes for plating electrical connectors. These new finishes are intended to meet the same stringent requirements as the widely used, but hazardous, cadmium finish. The materials were added to nine military specifications covering hundreds of standardized military connectors.
NFPA 475-2022
Recommended Practice for Organizing, Managing, and Sustaining a Hazardous Materials/Weapons of Mass Destruction Response Program
This guide provides information to protect workers from confined space hazards.
ASTM E3066-20
Standard Practice for Evaluating Relative Sustainability Involving Energy or Chemicals from Biomass
1.1 This standard practice provides a science-based methodology for evaluating the relative sustainability of options involving energy or chemicals derived from biomass. Options may involve products, processes, or projects. 1.2 The methodology includes setting goals and objectives, identifying stakeholders, selecting appropriate indicators, and evaluating the relative sustainability of options where at least one option is available from biomass. 1.3 The objectives are to facilitate fair comparison of options, focus efforts on practical indicators reflecting stakeholder priorities, and support continual improvement for more sustainable outcomes. 1.4 The purpose of this standard practice is not to declare something as sustainable or not sustainable but to help users assess, compare, and rank options based on specific goals and objectives. 1.5 This standard does not purport to address all of the safety concerns, if any, associated with its use. It is the responsibility of the user of this standard to establish appropriate safety, health, and environmental practices and determine the applicability of regulatory limitations prior to use. 1.6 This international standard was developed in accordance with internationally recognized principles on standardization established in the Decision on Principles for the Development of International Standards, Guides and Recommendations issued by the World Trade Organization Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) Committee.
ASTM E3066-16a Red
Standard Practice for Evaluating Relative Sustainability Involving Energy or Chemicals from Biomass (Standard + Redline PDF Bundle)
1.1 This standard practice provides a science-based methodology for evaluating the relative sustainability of options involving energy or chemicals derived from biomass. Options may involve products, processes, or projects.
1.2 The methodology includes setting goals and objectives, identifying stakeholders, selecting appropriate indicators, and evaluating the relative sustainability of options where at least one option is available from biomass.
1.3 The objectives are to facilitate fair comparison of options, focus efforts on practical indicators reflecting stakeholder priorities, and support continual improvement for more sustainable outcomes.
1.4 The purpose of this standard practice is not to declare something as sustainable or not sustainable but to help users assess, compare, and rank options based on specific goals and objectives.
1.5 This standard does not purport to address all of the safety concerns, if any, associated with its use. It is the responsibility of the user of this standard to establish appropriate safety and health practices and determine the applicability of regulatory limitations prior to use.
