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Chemical Hazard Assessment: A Key Step Towards Product Optimization

By Courtney Yan on 17 Jul 2014 • 3 minute read

USGBC’s LEED version 4 Materials & Resources Credit: Building Product Disclosure and Optimization - Material Ingredients is based on the premise that in order to promote healthier building products and materials, we must first know what ingredients go into a produ …

Bunnies and Butterflies: Envisioning the Ideal Future of Building Materials

By Ashley White, PhD on 07 Nov 2013 • 4 minute read

Last month USGBC convened a small group of industry and academic leaders to discuss how to increase information transparency in the building materials supply chain and leverage that transparency to transform the marketplace to remove hazardous ingredients from products. …

What Endpoints Should We Be Using for Materials Components?

By Charlene Bayer, PhD on 29 Oct 2013 • 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 …