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  Healthy Building Network is reducing the use of hazardous chemicals in building products through scientific research, education, and tools that allow designers and building owners to specify less toxic products that improve human and environmental health, and social equity outcomes.

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  The Healthy Materials Lab design research lab dedicated to supporting designers, architects, contractors and developers to create healthier places for all people to live.

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  The Green Science Policy Institute (GSP) facilitates the responsible use of chemicals to protect human and ecological health. The Institute educates and builds partnerships among scientists, regulators, businesses, and public interest groups to develop innovative solutions for reducing harmful chemicals in products.

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  The Health Product Declaration® Collaborative (HPDC) is a member organization committed to a built environment that is safer and healthier, through transparency and collaborative innovation. HPDC oversees the HPD Open Standard, the most widely used format for the accurate reporting of material contents and associated health information for building products.

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  HBN

  Pharos

  Pharos is an independent and comprehensive database including hazard, use, and exposure information for more than 135,000 chemicals and more than 170 types of building products. It helps manufacturers, designers, and building owners increase transparency and avoid using toxic materials.

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  HPDC

  Builder 2.0

  Builder 2.0 is a cloud-based information management tool that will help manufacturers report building product contents and other associated health information.

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  HBN

  HomeFree

  HomeFree is a national initiative supporting leaders in affordable housing who are improving human health by using less toxic building materials.

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  GSPI

  The Six Classes

  The Six Classes is a visionary program of the Green Science Policy Institute, whose aim is to reduce the use of harmful chemicals in consumer and other products. It focuses on entire classes or groups of chemicals of concern, rather than phasing out problematic chemicals one at a time.

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  GSPI

  Report: PFAS in Building Materials

  Our 2021 Building a Better World report summarizes publicly available information on PFAS uses in the built environment and proposes a path forward to reducing PFAS use in building materials. Building owners, architects, designers, contractors, manufacturers, and regulators are encouraged to identify and eliminate non-essential uses of PFAS in buildings.

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  Parsons

  Elegant + Healthier Affordable Housing

  In our collaboration with Determined by Design (DbD) we investigate how to bring cutting-edge, healthy, sustainable design research together with elevated, equitable design approaches to transform affordable housing.

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  HPDC

  HPD Public Repository

  The HPD Public Repository is the authoritative source for published HPDs. When a manufacturer publishes an HPD using the HPD Builder, it is automatically uploaded to the Repository as a PDF file. Almost 9,000 HPDs have been published, representing over 30,000 building products.

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  Parsons

  Healthy Affordable Housing

  A new webpage revealing the issues of affordable housing and providing resources and solutions for affordable housing providers which include, case-studies, courses, and healthier & affordable building products.

Advisory Committee

Jess Blanch, Design Associate and Enterprise Rose Architectural Fellow, Capitol Hill Housing

Catherine Bobenhausen, Senior Consultant at Colden Corporation

Michael Bodaken, President of Bodaken & Associates

Lisa Britton, Director of Sales & Marketing and Sustainability Champion at Industrial Louvers, Inc.

Joanna Frank, President and CEO of Center for Active Design

Dr. Maida Galvez, Associate Professor of Environmental Medicine, Public Health, and Pediatrics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Gretta Goldenman, Director at Millieu Ltd

Jean Hansen, Sustainable Principal, Senior Professional Associate, HDR

Rolf Halden, Ph.D., P.E., Professor in the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment at Arizona State University

Martin Mulvihill, Managing Partner and Co-Founder at Safer Made, and Senior Advisor and Board Member for Berkeley Center for Green Chemistry

Seandra Pope, President & CEO of Rooted Consulting Group

Becky Schaaf, Senior Vice President, Energy at SAHF

Joel Towers, Executive Dean of Parsons School of Design at The New School and Director of Tishman Environmental Design Center