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MONITOR
Edited by Anne DiNardo
Materials update:
A clearer picture
The momentum for bringing more transparency to materials selection got a boost this fall when the U.S. Green
Building Council (USGBC) released its LEED v4 standard,
which includes credits for building product reporting and
disclosure.
The move follows growing concern about building
materials and hazardous chemicals, and their effect on
occupants and workers. As awareness has grown, several
tools have entered the marketplace, from third-party
certification programs, which can be used to determine
the validity of green building product attributes, to Health Product Declarations
(HPDs), which ask manufacturers to
spell out exactly what's in their products
and to identify the health hazards associated with those chemicals.
"We're trying to understand what's
the best available product," says Jean
Hansen, sustainable interiors manager,
senior professional associate, HDR
Architecture (San Francisco).
National efforts, such as LEED
certification, help push the discussion
forward, while a lot continues to happen
on the local and regional level, too. For
instance, in the San Francisco Bay area,
a number of design firms, including
HDR, have begun hosting sessions with
manufacturers' reps to educate them about HPDs and
why they're important to their firms.
This past fall, the USGBC's Northern California Chapter
launched a Building Health Initiative, with participants
from a range of sectors coming together to collaborate
and share best practices. The founding partners, which
include Kaiser Permanente, HDR, HOK, Perkins+Will,
Interface, and several other companies, have committed
to undertake organizational actions, such as educating clients and peers about health impacts of the built environment and creating education programs.
"Physicians understand the underlying causes of their
patients' conditions. That's why we ask, 'Where do you
work, live, and play?' It's imperative that the medical profession and the building industries learn from one another
about the health impacts of the built environment," Dr.
Elizabeth Baca, an advisory board member for the initiative, said in a release.
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