Charlene Bayer, PhD
Charlene Bayer, PhD

USGBC Senior Research Fellow, Chairman and Chief Science Officer at Hygieia Sciences, and Principal Research Scientist with the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Ph.D. and M.S. from Emory University in Organic Chemistry and a B.S. from Baylor University in Chemistry.

What Endpoints Should We Be Using for Materials Components?
29 Oct 2013 • openbook 2 minute read
As Marty Mulvihill opined in his October 14, 2013 blog, ideally “a perfect building material . . . from raw material sourcing, to building, and through decommissioning – are all safe for human health and the environment.” Chemical risk is a function of both a chem …
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Is It Possible to Provide an Inventory of ‘All’ Chemicals in a Product?
03 Oct 2013 • openbook 3 minute read
What does it mean to provide an inventory of 'all' the chemicals used in a product? Is it possible? Why? Why not? It is assumed that manufacturers know every one of the chemicals in their products, but in reality this may not be so. Manufacturers do not always have c …
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