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