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Green Chemistry Innovators Help Advance Dialogue around Safer Building Materials

By Ashley White, PhD on 06 Jun 2014 • 3 minute read

Through the LEED, Materials, and Health Initiative, USGBC has been advancing dialogue around the challenges and opportunities associated with material ingredient disclosure and elimination of chemical hazards in the building sector. Last week USGBC held a workshop on …

Workshop participants, "Advancing Safer Materials in the Building Products Sector."

Standardization and Classification: Two Pieces of the Safer Materials Puzzle

By David Marcus on 27 May 2014 • 4 minute read

Increasing transparency and scientific understanding around the health impacts of building materials is unquestionably a timely and complex topic. The growing number of chemicals and products in the marketplace brings a deluge of new information and opportunities, but w …

Leveraging LEED v4 to Spur Market Transformation of Building Materials

By Adam Maynard on 02 May 2014 • 3 minute read

Last month, Tom Lent, Policy Director of the Healthy Building Network sat down alongside Brendan Owens, VP of LEED Technical Development at USGBC, for a lunch talk entitled Building Material Transparency: We Should Care What’s in Our Buildings. It was the second suc …

The New Chemicals in Products Information Transparency

By Ken Geiser, PhD on 13 Jan 2014 • 3 minute read

One of the most impressive messages of the Materials and Human Health Summit at the Philadelphia Greenbuild Conference in November was how rapidly chemical information transparency in building materials has become commonly accepted. Several hundred designers and build …