by Brianna Crandall — December 5, 2012—After more than a year of development, green building industry leaders have officially released the Health Product Declaration (HPD) Open Standard Version 1, an open standard format for reporting contents and chemical hazards in building products. The announcement was made by the Health Product Declaration Collaborative, a new nonprofit membership group that will manage the HPD Open Standard.
Building product manufacturers will use the new standard to provide standardized disclosure of product contents, emissions and health information. The standard streamlines the process for communicating and using this information by defining the critical information that is needed by building designers, specifiers, owners and occupants to make informed decisions.
The HPD Open Standard is available free to all on the organization’s Web site, and can be used to show compliance with government building regulations; to complement the Life Cycle Analysis tools that are the basis of EPDs (Environmental Product Declarations); to meet requirements of green building rating systems; and more.
The HPD Open Standard Version 1 was developed in a process led by the Health Product Declaration Pilot Project Committee, with the participation of 29 building product manufacturers and 50 expert reviewers from across the building industry. The newly formed HPD Collaborative will develop, maintain, and evolve the HPD Open Standard to ensure that the format continues to meet the needs of building users for reporting building product and material contents and associated health information.
The 46 Founding Sponsors of the HPD Collaborative are: Alpar Architectural Products; ASID Foundation; ASSA ABLOY; Boora Architects; BuildingGreen, Inc.; Cannon Design; Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems; Concenter Solutions; CertainTeed/Saint-Gobain; DPR; The Durst Organization; Forbo; FXFowle; GAF; Google; Hawley Peterson Snyder; Healthy Building Network; HDR, Inc.; HKS; HLW International; HOK; Interface; InPro Corporation; The Kendeda Fund; Kirksey Architecture; Mary Davidge Associates; Mithun; NBBJ; The Pankow Foundation; Perkins+Will; PROSOCO, Inc.; RTKL; SERA; Shaw Industries; Skanska; SmartBIM; SmithGroupJJR; SOM, LLP; Stego Industries, LLC; Tandus Flooring; Teknion (see Teknion’s FMLink ad); Turner Construction Company; U.S. Green Building Council; WRNS Studio; XL Construction; and ZGF Architects.
The Pilot Program Participants are: 3form; GAF; Neil Kelly Cabinets; Alpar Architectural; Globus Cork; PROSOCO, Inc.; Armstrong Ceilings; Haworth; Scranton Products; ASSA ABLOY; Herman Miller; Shaw Industries; BASF; InPro Corp; Steelcase; CertainTeed/Saint-Gobain; Interface; Stego Industries; Johns Manville; Tandus Flooring; Crossville Tile; Knauf; Teknion; Dunn-Edwards; Knoll; Wilsonart; Forbo; LDI Corporation; and YOLO Colorhouse.
