USGBC and HPD Collaborative introduce new material health resource

by sadia_badhon | December 18, 2019 1:58 pm

The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) and Health Product Declaration (HPD) Collaborative has created a new material health resource for the building industry. Image courtesy HPD Collaborative [1]
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) and Health Product Declaration (HPD) Collaborative has created a new material health resource for the building industry.
Image courtesy HPD Collaborative 

The U.S. Green Building Council[2] (USGBC) and Health Product Declaration[3] (HPD) Collaborative have introduced new capabilities for advancing and scaling the practice of transparent material health in the building industry.

The new capabilities will improve education and information tools and enable project teams and manufacturers to earn Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) v4.1 material transparency and optimization credits with ease.

Resources from all Material Ingredients credit partners (BIFMA, Clean Production Action, Cradle to Cradle, International Living Future Institute [ILFI], Underwriters Laboratories [UL], Global GreenTag, and more) are all included in the new resource. A project team can now find the how-to resources they need to obtain the LEED Material Ingredients credit for all programs participating in it in one web location.

Newly announced capabilities include:

To access the new educational offerings, click here[4].

Endnotes:
  1. [Image]: https://www.constructionspecifier.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Opener-8.jpg
  2. U.S. Green Building Council: https://new.usgbc.org/
  3. Health Product Declaration: https://www.hpd-collaborative.org/leed-material-ingredients-credit/
  4. here: https://www.hpd-collaborative.org/leed-material-ingredients-credit/

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