Building Materials
Every product. Every regulation.One platform.
Foresight covers the substance and emissions rules that hit building products, from formaldehyde and VOC limits to biocidal wood preservatives and CPR declarations, maps every change to the products you make, and backs it with the source.
Formaldehyde restriction · ECHAIn consultationTighter formaldehyde emission limits proposed
European UnionThe problem
Compliance is buried inthe build
A single building product can carry restricted substances across several materials, each governed by rules that move on their own clock.
Deep multi-material products
Boards, coatings, adhesives, and insulation each carry restricted substances you never formulate yourself.
Overlapping jurisdictions
The same product answers to EU, UK, and US state VOC limits at once.
Manual tracking
Impact still lives in spreadsheets that have grown for years, so a missed change surfaces late.
One platform, every team
One platform for every team thatowns product compliance
Most tools serve one team and one slice. Foresight covers your whole materials-regulation surface, so Regulatory Affairs, Product Stewardship, EHS, Sustainability, and ESG work from the same picture.
And the same platform connects to the rest of your organisation
Tighter formaldehyde emission limits proposed
One Foresight platform
One regulatory surface, every team
Regulatory Affairs
Every change across formaldehyde, VOC, biocide, and CPR rules, mapped to your products.
Product Stewardship
Restricted substances traced through the boards, coatings, and adhesives you ship.
EHS / HSE
Workplace exposure limits and handling rules, the moment they change.
Sustainability
Circular-economy, EPR, and product-passport pressure, tracked early.
ESG
Disclosure and due-diligence signals, in one defensible record.
And the same platform connects to the rest of your organisation
The usual setup: a different tool for each team
Five point solutions, five blind spots. Nothing watches the space between them, and that is where things slip.
Chemical-watch tool
Regulatory Affairs
Product spreadsheet
Product Stewardship
EHS point tool
EHS / HSE
Sustainability tracker
Sustainability
Manual reporting
ESG
The regulatory lifecycle
From the first signal through to enforcement
A regulation has a long life before it reaches you. Foresight tracks it the whole way, from the early science that flags a substance to the day the requirement bites, so nothing lands too late to act on.
Scientific literature
Emerging studies and risk signals on a substance, long before any rule exists.
Early policy
Proposals, roadmaps, and regulatory intentions as they first surface.
Consultation and review
Committee reviews, opinions, and comment windows while the rule takes shape.
Adopted requirements
Restrictions, classifications, and obligations the moment they land.
Enforcement
Compliance deadlines, checks, and penalties as the requirement takes effect.
Where a point solution picks up one stage, early policy or downstream compliance, Foresight follows the whole line.
The regulatory surface
Coverage acrossevery building-materials rule
From formaldehyde and VOC limits to biocides and product-passport rules, Foresight tracks the frameworks and substances your products depend on, wherever they apply.
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Evidence behind every alert
A compliance decision is only as good as what it stands on. Foresight is built so every change you act on can be traced back to its source.
Evidence-backed
Every alert links to the official source it came from, so your team works from the document, not a summary.
Expert-reviewed
Regulatory specialists sit behind the platform, so the signal you act on has been checked, not just scraped.
Cited to source
A defensible trail behind every change, ready when a customer, auditor, or regulator asks how you knew.
The AI Assistant
Ask the question. Get the cited answer
Ask any materials-regulatory question in plain language and get an answer grounded in the monitored sources, with the citations attached. The assistant cuts the time a change takes to understand, and helps draft the first version of the impact memo your team reviews.
That means leaning less on external consultants for the questions your own team can now answer, with the evidence in hand.
See the AI AssistantThen put the answer to work
The same assistant turns a change into the deliverables your team needs next, each one sourced and ready to review.
Draft a stakeholder memo
Turn a regulatory change into a clear, sourced briefing your product team can act on, in seconds.
Write this week's newsletter
Compile the changes that touched your portfolio this week into a digest ready to send.
Assess portfolio impact
See exactly which substances and products a change touches, grouped by the nearest deadline.
Summarise a new regulation
Get a dense ruling in plain language: what changed, and what is new for you.
Build the audit trail
Pull the evidence and primary sources behind an alert, ready for a review or audit.
Customer proof
Trusted by compliance teams
What regulatory and compliance teams using Foresight tell us, in their own words.
It's not just that we get alerts delivered, it's that we get them early enough to act. Before Foresight, we tracked everything in Excel. Now I get an email in the morning and know what matters within minutes.
We've cut our monitoring time by around 80%, and the information we get is sharper and more reliable.
It used to feel impossible to find what mattered. It was like searching for a needle in a haystack of newsletters and PDFs. Foresight cuts through it all and shows me exactly what's important.
Built for compliance-critical teams
Frequently asked questions
Everything you need to know about Foresight's regulatory intelligence platform
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