The HPDC newsletter

HPDC’s Spring News: Advancing Material Health Practice and Leadership Spring is here, and with it comes new growth for our material health community. Exciting updates to the HPD Public Repository are just around the corner, promising to make material health practice better, faster, and more cost-effective. Stay tuned for our announcement later this month! In…

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Celebrating Milestones and Innovations in Material Health Did you know that 12,000 HPDs now have been published in the HPD Public Repository? That’s right. HPDs have become one of the easiest-to-use and fastest-growing sustainability methods in the green building ecosystem. This month material health committed manufacturers have collectively pushed through to this new level; another…

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September Signals Many Material Health Opportunities! September is jam-packed with opportunities for HPD Collaborative and our members! A few of the highlights: Launch of HPD Version 2.3 Update in the HPD Builder – just released in production, HPD v02.3 Update has a host of great new features that help you elevate your material health practice…

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June Greetings to our HPD Collaborative Community! I want to begin this newsletter with a big Thank You! Your efforts this year have lifted transparent material health to a new level of adoption and capabilities: We passed the 11,000 published HPDs mark, voluntarily created by over 800 building product manufacturers! Representing well over 40,000 building…

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Making the Basics Work Better – Streamlining Reporting Ingredients and Screening for Material Health in Building Products. Our HPDC team – Milla, Hal, Paula and Wendy – have arrived in San Francisco for Greenbuild 2022 – and we are excited to be here! I am very pleased to say that we will have several announcements…

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Material Health Practice – The Next Steps In Transparency. September always brings a surge of fresh energy and excitement. As we start to plan for coming events and the year ahead, it is a time when we naturally reflect on the progress that has been made, and where we are now positioned. What’s becoming clear…

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Material Health Practice–Take Your Next Step Today! We can probably all agree that it would have been impossible to anticipate what has happened in the world since we embarked on HPD Version 2.3 development several years ago. Despite the many unanticipated events and challenges that have affected so many aspects of our day-to-day lives, our…

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Dear HPD Collaborative community members – The past three months have continued the whirlwind of activity for us at HPDC. We are forging ahead with our HPD Open Standard Version 2.3 implementation – with launch firming up for Q1 of next year. Exciting new features in HPD Builder and Public Repository are also in development,…

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Material Health Practice – Take Your Next Step Today! As your member association dedicated to the practice of Material Health, HPD Collaborative’s mission is to support you, as a material health practitioner. Our free Support Portal is available to all. We will respond personally to your questions. If you are just getting started, or have…

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Welcome, Spring 2021! We have a year of exciting innovation planned at HPDC, and are eager to share with you updates on our progress in this newsletter. Even more importantly – we want first to acknowledge the challenges that we all have faced since we learned of the looming global pandemic a year ago. We…

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Wow! What a tremendous inaugural Material Health Open Innovation Symposium, co-sponsored with USGBC, and HPDC Annual Member Meeting. Both events took place – virtually – on November 17. We had over 250 participants during the day, many for the entire 6 ½ hours we were together. It’s fair to say that interest in Material Health…

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What a year 2020 is turning out to be! We wish everyone the best of health and safety as we all continue on this quite exceptional journey as a community of practice. Amidst the confusion, 2020 has become a record year for our Open Innovation Material Health Ecosystem. We are seeing an all-time high rate…

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Events of the past months have compelled us to pause and examine our priorities. We cannot expect change in outcomes if we don’t make any change in what we are doing. To this end, HPD Collaborative is initiating efforts to strengthen the connection of social equity and justice with material health. We will take up…

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In the fight against COVID-19, we can see how rapid communication and sharing of information is enabling new collaborations and accelerating innovation to combat this disease. As we adapt to the new challenges of this unprecedented pandemic, one lesson we can gain is insight into the remarkable power of collaborative, open innovation in finding breakthrough…

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I am struck by how many conversations at Greenbuild this year mentioned the increasing rate and pace of change in our world of transparency and material health – it’s picking up speed. It is your efforts – the efforts of now thousands of individuals, from all corners of the building industry – that are resulting…

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For HPDC this time of the year marks key milestones in our progress. HPDC was founded in October 2012, and since introducing its open membership in October 2015, HPDC has rapidly grown to a membership of over 270 organizations with 600 individual participants. Thank you to all of our members for your amazing support and…

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Summer 2019 – rather than bringing in the lazy days – is jumping with energy on key HPDC initiatives. Most significantly, we have launched the Pilot for the Supplier HPD extension to the HPD Builder. This new web-based capability will provide an array of new features for manufacturers and the supply chain, and greatly simplify…

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The advent of the Supplier HPD, which will launch in Q3 this year as a key element of the HPD Open Standard v2.2 release, marks an important pivot point for the transparency movement within the building industry. With this new tool, together with a growing ecosystem of complementary information management tools, libraries, and certifications, transparency…

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Our transparency and material health community is continuing to expand and thrive as we enter the Spring season. HPDC welcomes a new member to our Board of Directors, Dennis Wilson, of Saint-Gobain North America. Our membership has grown greatly in the past few years – now 250 member organizations – and we have a brand…

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Transparency Practice is Off to a Running Start in 2019! 2019 has jumped out of the gate with a surge of activity that signals this year will be a real breakthrough in advancing building product disclosure and optimization. Your efforts are making the difference! LEED v4.1 Beta is Open for Project Registration With Improved Material…

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Thank you for a productive – and impactful – 2018 The progress that our community of transparency and material health practice has made in 2018 is phenomenal. Thank you for your commitment and support of all the programs and initiatives that make up our diverse ecosystem of participants – now over 250 member organizations. One…

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HPDs – the Leading Transparency Standard – New Features Make it Easier than Ever to Practice Transparency With over 4,100 published HPDs, representing 10,000+ products, HPDC makes the practice of transparency easy and affordable – for architects, designers and manufacturers in the building industry. Accurate, Reliable, Consistent. Use – HPD Public Repository for quick, free…

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