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Transcript of Gulf Coast Green 2012 Bill Walsh
Bill Walsh Executive Director
Greening The Palette: A Generational Change In Building Materials
Healthy Building Network: Past Projects
•Pressure Treated Wood: 2002-2004
• $4 billion annual market
• Chromated Copper Arsenic (CCA) replaced w/arsenic-free
alternatives
•Chemical Avoidance & Disclosure Policies Target
Persistent, Bioaccumulative, Endocrine Disruptor Compounds
•Green Guide For Health Care: 2005
•Kaiser Permanente Purchasing Guidelines 2008
•LEED for Health Care 2010
•LEED Revisions 2012
Healthy Building Network: Current Projects
Chemical Hazard Disclosure & Avoidance
www.pharosproject.net www.hpdworkinggroup.org
LEED-NC
Formaldehyde
LEED-EBOM
Mercury
LEED-HC
Mercury
Formaldehyde
+
Cadmium
Lead
Hexavalent
chromium
PFCs LEED Pilot Library
Phthalates
Halogenated Flame
Retardants
Chlorinated Plastics
LEED 2012
More Red Lists…
Disclosure Required…
MR Healthcare Credit
PBT Source Reduction: Lead, Cadmium
and Copper
LEED 2012 for
Healthcare
MR Healthcare Credit
PBT Source Reduction: Mercury in Lamps
MR Healthcare Prerequisite
PBT Source Reduction: Mercury
Pilot Credit 2
PBT Source Reduction: Dioxins and
Halogenated Organic Compounds
Pilot Credit 11
Chemical Avoidance in Building
Materials
LEED Pilot Library
Pilot Credit 54
Avoidance of Chemicals of Concern
Pilot Credit 62
Disclosure of Chemicals of Concern
LEED Pilot Library
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.
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.
EPA Chemicals of concern
Announced 12/30/09
• Phthalates (90% in Vinyl)
• Polybrominated diphenyl
ethers (Flame Retardants)
• Perfluorinated chemicals
(Stain/Water Repellants)
• Bisphenol A (epoxies)
Where do we use them?
Vinyl floors
Carpets
Vinyl wallpaper
Polyurethane foam cushion
Polycarbonate glazing
Epoxy paints & coatings
Caulks
………and many more
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?
Consciousness
Communication
Preparation
Consciousness
Persistent
Bioaccumulative
Toxic Chemicals
Eco Kids/Earth Day Canada
Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals: Hormone Mimics
Original Copyright © 2007 The Open University. Now made available within the Creative Commons framework
under the CC Attribution – Non-commercial licence (see http://creativecommons.org/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/.
Dose-response curve
Source: http://www.ourstolenfuture.org/newscience/lowdose/nonmonotonic.htm
DDT
CFCs
Agent Orange
Dioxin
Halogenated Compounds
• Chlorinated plastics
• Brominated flame retardants
• Perfluorocarbons
VOCs and SVOCs
• Carbon bonded to bromine, chlorine, fluorine (flame retardants, stain repellents, etc )
Other Endocrine Disruptors
• Phthalates, BPA: softeners in plastics, epoxies, etc
Metals
• Lead, mercury, cadmium, arsenic, and chromium
Halogenated flame retardants (PBDE): • disrupt thyroid and estrogen hormones
• developmental effects on brain &
reproductive systems (reduced sperm count)
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."
What’s Getting Into Our Children
August 6, 2009
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.
Nicholas D. Kristof
Chemicals and Our Health
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.
July 16, 2009
Nichols D. Kristof
Do Toxins Cause Autism?
February 24, 2010
. . . .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.
Nicholas D. Kristof
Healthy Building Network
Lead
Methylmercury
PCBs
Organophosphate pesticides
Organochlorine pesticides
Endocrine disruptors
Automotive exhaust
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
Brominated flame retardants
Perfluorinated compounds
80,000
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
Communication
TRADE
SECRET
Low fat!
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.
January 4, 2010
Increasingly Available Product Data
(carbon footprints)
(chemicals of concern)
(working conditions)
(community conditions)
+
Web 2.0 Technology
____________________________
Era of Radical Transparency
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
• 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.
Preparation
Standards & Certifications
Not subject to IAQ testing even in certified products
because they are not VOCs
Many PBTs & Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals
SVOCs & Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals
Phthalates
Harmful chemical
90% used in vinyl
Present in household dust
An SVOC, not a VOC
To address these hazards: new trends in green building product evaluation
TRANSPARENCY & DISCLOSURE
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
Halons
Polystyrene
Lead
Mercury
Cadmium
Hexavalent
Chromium
CFC
HCFC
VOCs
Urea
Formaldehyde
Arsenic, penta & creosote
HFR
PVC & other
chlorinated
plastics
Copper
Short PFCs
Polyurethane
Tins
Chlorinated
paraffins
EPA
Perkins+
Will LBC
Phenol
formal-
dehyde LEED-HC
Phthalates
PBDE BPA
Long PFC
LEED Pilot
GGHC
More
carcinogens
More PBTs,
asthmagens &
endocrine
disruptors More mutagens,
reproductive,
developmental
& neurotoxicants
CPA-HBN Red List
& More!!
PAHs, Phenol,
PU, more metals &
other REACH chems
LBC watch
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.
1. Product Description
2. Contents Inventory & Health Warning
3. Testing & Certification
4. Accessory Materials
5. Notes
6. Certification of the Declaration
Key elements of an HPD
Endorsed
by nearly
50 Green
Building
Leaders
www.hpdworkinggroup.org
30 Major
Manufacturers
In Pilot
Program
www.hpdworkinggroup.org
LCA Life Cycle Analysis
Embodied carbon, embodied energy, fossil fuel depletion, materials depletion, acid rain
emissions, etc.
EPD (LCA)
Environmental Product
Declaration
HPD (use phase)
Health Product
Declaration Submittal Combined Health &
Environmental Product Declaration
Product contents SVOCs, non volatiles,
carcinogens
VOC certifications
SCS, Greenguard, Greenseal etc
VOC content Wet applied products
Hazard references
IARC, Prop 65, EPA IRIS, Green Screen, etc
Energy Use
Water Use
Materials Use
Combined Health & Environmental Product Declaration
VOC emission Lab testing
Emissions
HPD Open Standard Communication Chains
Manufacturers Sales Reps
Architect Specifier
Contractor
Owner Sub
Supply chain
Users of the information
Suppliers of the information
Supply chain
HPD Open Standard Communication Chains
GrnSpcPharos Declare & others
Architect Specifier
Contractor
Owner Sub
Manufacturer
Users of the information
Suppliers of the information
Supply chain
Health
Product
Declaration
(HPD)
Section 1 Product Description
• Name & ID of Product
• Manufacturer Name
• Description of the Product
• Master format number(s)
• Declaration Date
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
Reference Manual
Line by line instructions
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
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
GENERATIONAL CHANGE
•Healthier Buildings
•Healthier Construction Sites
•Healthier Factories & Communities
•Green Chemistry
•Bio-Inspired Materials Design
Earth from space Breast Cancer Cell Through Electron Microscope
www.healthybuilding.net
www.pharosproject.net
www.hpdworkinggroup.org
Thank You !
Section 2 - Contents Inventory
• % Fully disclosed intentionally added contents
• Level of disclosure of known residuals (contaminant from manufacturing
or feedstock)
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