healthier building materials: avoiding hidden costs
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How much did chronic diseases costOregon in 2010?
OPPA WorkshopJanuary 23, 2014
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How much did chronic diseases costOregon in 2010?
What can we do to help prevent chronicdiseases?
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Overview
Why?Chemicals and human health
How? Integrating product selection
Who?
Collaboration opportunities
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Why? Chemicals and human health
Emerging trend: LEED v4, State of Oregon DAS
Chemicals in building products can impact human
healthYou can do something about this Industry is ready
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LEED v4
2 Points
Reward projectteams for selecting products with:
Inventoriedingredients
Safer, less
hazardouschemicals
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Oregon Executive Order 12-05
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EO 12-05 EO 12-05
Strengthening Demand 1 (c):
Green chemistryguidelines
Cleaning products pilot, plans forbuilding materials,electronics, furniture
Revised lifecyclecostingmethodology
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Why? Chemicals and human health
Ways that chemicals can impact human health Contribute to chronic diseases like cancer,
asthma, and diabetes
Other health impacts like brain development,learning, and hormone systems
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Why? Chemicals and human health
Hazardous chemicals arecommonly found in productsused to construct, maintain,and remodel buildings
halogenated flameretardants
chlorinated compounds phthalates
volatile organiccompounds perflourinated compounds metals
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How? Integrating Product Selection
Exercise (10 min)
Develop language for building product selection thatintegrates chemical hazard and/or human healthinto a Construction Manager/General Contractor(CM/GC) Services Requests for Proposals
Section 2.2.6 Firm Experience with Sustainable Building Practices 15 points
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How? Integrating Product Selection
Section 2.2.6 Firm Experience with Sustainable Building Practices 15 points
Language could include: LEED v4 materials credits? Living Building Challenge materials red list?
Use of Health Product Declarations, Pharos?
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Who? Collaboration Opportunities
The Healthy Purchasing Coalition (HPC) isbuilt on the idea that a group of individuals andorganizations,
acting collaboratively and with a harmonizedapproach, can have a bigger impact than any one ofus acting alone.
Free to join Agree to implement shared framework
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Who? Collaboration Opportunities
HPC Framework
Review policies Identify pilots Integrate elements Establish feedback
loops Set goals & measure
progress Share
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Thank you
Colin PriceOregon Environmental Council [email protected]
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