6. LEED Pilot Library
Pilot Credit 2
PBT Source Reduction: Dioxins and
Halogenated Organic Compounds
Pilot Credit 11
Chemical Avoidance in Building
Materials
7. LEED Pilot Library
Pilot Credit 54
Avoidance of Chemicals of Concern
To increase the use of product and materials that disclose chemical ingredient
Data and reduce the concentrations of chemical contaminants that can damage
Air quality, human health, productivity and the environment.
Pilot Credit 62
Disclosure of Chemicals of Concern
To increase the use of products and materials that disclose chemical ingredient data.
Use a minimum of 20%, by cost, of at least 3 building product and material types
meeting one of the options offered.
8. EPA Chemicals of
concern
Announced 12/30/09
Where do we use them?
• Phthalates (90% in Vinyl)
Vinyl floors
• Polybrominated diphenyl Carpets
ethers (Flame Retardants) Vinyl wallpaper
• Perfluorinated chemicals
Polyurethane foam cushion
(Stain/Water Repellants)
• Bisphenol A (epoxies) Polycarbonate glazing
Epoxy paints & coatings
Caulks
………and many more
9. LEED 2012 Chemicals of Concern
credit
California Prop 65
Chemicals known to
the State to cause
cancer or reproductive
toxicity
Over 850 substances
How many in building
materials?
19. Halogenated Compounds VOCs and SVOCs
• Chlorinated plastics • Carbon bonded to bromine, chlorine,
• Brominated flame retardants fluorine (flame retardants, stain repellents,
• Perfluorocarbons etc )
Other Endocrine Disruptors Metals
• Phthalates, BPA: softeners in plastics, • Lead, mercury, cadmium, arsenic,
epoxies, etc and chromium
20. Halogenated flame retardants (PBDE):
• disrupt thyroid and estrogen hormones
• developmental effects on brain &
reproductive systems (reduced sperm count)
21. The Little Princes of Denmark
Why do Danes have smaller nuts than Finns—are toxins to blame?
By Florence Williams
Posted Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2010, at 9:41 AM ET
. . . . Why should you care if you're neither
Danish nor Finnish? Because the answer
involves environmental toxins that have made
their way around the globe.
"It turns out the chemical burden is not the
same" for Danish and Finnish baby boys, says
researcher Main, who was surprised by the
finding. "It's higher here. The higher your
burden, as measured in breast milk, the higher
the risk of undescended testes."
22.
23. August 6, 2009
Nicholas D. Kristof
What’s Getting Into Our Children
Baby bottles and toys have been found to contain phthalates, bisphenol A,
and lead, all toxins that have been linked to reproductive and developmental
disorders. . . . .As harmful elements detected in everyday household items
increase, rates of chronic disease have also risen sharply - and these
conditions are now the leading causes of childhood illness and death.
24. July 16, 2009
Chemicals and Our Health Nichols D. Kristof
However careful you are about your health, your body is almost
certainly home to troubling chemicals called phthalates. . . . . and
many scientists have linked them to everything from sexual
deformities in babies to obesity and diabetes.
25. February 24, 2010
Do Toxins Cause Autism? Nicholas D. Kristof
. . . .suspicions are growing that one culprit may be chemicals in the
environment
Precautionary principle . . . . avoid most plastics marked at the bottom as 3
(PVC/Vinyl) , 6 and 7 because they are the ones associated with potentially
harmful toxins.
31. 85% have no human health data available
65% have no data at all publicly available
No chemicals banned, not even asbestos
Moreover, most chemical ingredients not disclosed in products
36. January 4, 2010
A week after he arrived at the agency in July,
Steve Owens, assistant administrator for the
EPA's Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic
Substances, ended confidentiality protection for
530 chemicals. In those cases, manufacturers
had claimed secrecy for chemicals they had
promoted by name on their Web sites or
detailed in trade journals.
37. Increasingly Available Product Data
(carbon footprints)
(chemicals of concern)
(working conditions)
(community conditions)
+
Web 2.0 Technology
____________________________
Era of Radical Transparency
38.
39.
40. Over 9000 chemicals screened on 26 chemical hazard
lists from authoritative scientific bodies
• U.S. National Institutes of Health
• National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health (NIOSH)
• International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
• United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
• European Commission
• State of Washington
• State of California (Prop 65)
• Association of Occupational and Environmental Clinics
41.
42. • From billion-dollar nonprofits to
single-person dot.causes, these
groups collectively comprise the
largest movement on earth, a
movement that has no name,
leader, or location, and that has
gone largely ignored by
politicians and the media.
• Like nature itself, it is
organizing from the bottom up,
in every city, town, and culture.
and is emerging to be an
extraordinary and creative
expression of people's needs
worldwide.
57. Many PBTs & Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals
Not subject to IAQ testing even in certified products
because they are not VOCs
58. SVOCs & Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals
Phthalates
Harmful chemical
90% used in vinyl
Present in household dust
An SVOC, not a VOC
59. To address these hazards: new trends in green building product evaluation
TRANSPARENCY & DISCLOSURE
60. CHEMICAL AVOIDANCE “RED LISTS”
No added Formaldehyde
Halogenated Flame Retardants
PVC
Mercury
CFC’s
HCFC’s
Neoprene (chloroprene)
Cadmium
Chlorinated Polyethylene and Chlorosulfonated Polyethylene
Wood treatments containing Creosote, Arsenic, or
Pentachlorophenol
Polyurethane
Lead
Phthalates
61.
62.
63.
64. Perkins+
CPA-HBN Red List
Will LBC
GGHC Lead
Mercury Phenol
Cadmium formal-
Copper dehyde LEED-HC
Hexavalent
VOCs
Chromium
Urea
Formaldehyde
EPA
Chlorinated PVC & other
Phthalates LEED Pilot
paraffins BPA chlorinated
PBDE
plastics
Long PFC
HFR
LBC watch Short PFCs CFC
PAHs, Phenol, Polyurethane HCFC Arsenic, More PBTs,
Tins penta & asthmagens &
PU, more metals & creosote
Halons endocrine
other REACH chems
Polystyrene More mutagens, disruptors
reproductive,
More developmental
carcinogens & neurotoxicants
& More!!
65. An Open Standard Format,
non-proprietary standard
format for Reporting
Chemical Ingredients and
Associated Health Hazards.
Health Impact Assessment
specifically studying impacts
on building occupants from
chemical emissions from
building products.
66. Key elements of an HPD
1. Product Description
2. Contents Inventory & Health Warning
3. Testing & Certification
4. Accessory Materials
5. Notes
6. Certification of the Declaration
68. 30 Major
Manufacturers
In Pilot
Program
www.hpdworkinggroup.org
69. Combined Health & Environmental Product Declaration
VOC emission
Lab testing VOC
certifications
VOC content SCS, Greenguard, Greenseal
Wet applied products etc
HPD
Product contents Hazard (use phase)
SVOCs, non volatiles,
references Health
carcinogens Product
IARC, Prop 65, EPA IRIS, Green Submittal
Screen, etc Declaration Combined
Health &
Environmental
Energy Use LCA EPD Product Declaration
Life Cycle Analysis (LCA)
Environmental
Water Use Embodied carbon, embodied
energy, fossil fuel depletion,
Product
materials depletion, acid rain Declaration
Materials Use emissions, etc.
Emissions
70. HPD Open Standard Communication
Chains
Supply chain
Supply chain Suppliers of the
information
Manufacturers
Sales Reps Users of the
information
Architect Contractor
Specifier
Owner Sub
71. HPD Open Standard Communication
Chains
Supply chain Suppliers of the
information
Manufacturer
GrnSpcPharos
Declare & others Users of the
information
Architect Contractor
Specifier
Owner Sub
73. Section 1 Product Description
• Name & ID of Product
• Manufacturer Name
• Description of the Product
• Master format number(s)
• Declaration Date
74. Section 2 - Contents Inventory
Elements of full disclosure
• Substance name
• CAS number (or species)
• % of weight of the product
• Health Hazard Warnings (authoritative listings)
• Recycled content
• Uses nanotechnology
• Role/Function
77. Over 9000 chemicals
Screened against 26 authoritative chemical hazard lists
Ranked on a GreenScreen-informed hazard scale
• Priority health endpoints
• Confidence in the science
• US EPA IRIS Carcinogens, NWMP Priority PBTs, TRI PBT, Global Warming Potentials
and Ozone Depleting Potentials
• NTP ROC and Reproductive Monographs
• NIOSH Carcinogens
• IARC Cancer Monographs
• European Commission SVHC, CLP, ESIS PBT, and Endocrine Disruptors
• State of Washington PBTS
• State of Oregon P3s
• OSPAR Priority Chemicals
• Rotterdam PICs
• Stockholm POPs
• State of California Prop 65
• Association of Occupational and Environmental Clinics Exposure Codes
78. HPD Timeline
March 15 – HPD Pilot began
May 16 – close of Pilot
July/August – review & revise period
Fall 2012 – release of HPD V1 for
public use
83. Section 2 - Contents Inventory
• % Fully disclosed intentionally added contents
• Level of disclosure of known residuals (contaminant from manufacturing
or feedstock)
84. Section 2 - Contents Inventory
• Screening disclosure
• Health list info (URL, no end of life, Green Screen)
• VOC listing (fluid applied only - incl EPA exempts)
• Full list references
