Brent Ehrlich

As BuildingGreen’s Products & Materials Specialist, Brent excels at deep, unbiased, and nuanced technical research on the health and environmental impacts of green building products and materials. Some areas of focus include:

• product and material constituents, including their risks

• product certifications

• third-party product and material testing frameworks

• ensuring functional performance

• LEED Materials & Resources requirements

• life-cycle assessment

• the performance advantages and environmental impacts of different structural materials

Brent also serves as products editor at BuildingGreen, writing or editing all the company’s product-related publications. In this role, he also oversees BuildingGreen’s annual award program—the Top 10 Green Building Products—and presents his findings yearly in a popular webinar.

A LEED AP BD+C, he has been researching and writing about green building for 18+ years but has also taught college composition, copy edited science journals, worked as a carpenter, and managed a large commercial kitchen. An avid runner and cross-country skier, Brent lives in Vermont with his wife and two children.