The SEA of Northern California's Sustainable Design Committee wrote a paper "Establishing Third-Party Certification for Sustainable Building Materials" submitted to the SEAOC 2011 Convention Proceedings. Click here.
In case you don't want to read the whole report, the committee’s paper was submitted as an article to Structural Engineering magazine and is available here at gostructural.com.
The committee is going to push for getting material certification for concrete and steel into CalGreen.
