Resources
Scroll down to find guides and materials to help create and use HPDs: Training Materials, Case Studies, User Guides – Project Teams and Manufacturers, Databases and Practice Protocols, Sample HPD Reports.
Training Materials
Lunch & Learn Series
Transparency Discussion Series
Transparency Practices Course
Project Team Training
Access four condensed e-learning modules based on information from our continuing education course titled, “The Empowered Design Professional: Using HPDs to Make Material Choices.”
A Discussion Series on transparency and material health in practice with industry leaders.
A set of transparency practices and products for which HPDs are available that architecture and design professionals can use.
A series of pre-taped training sessions will show your team how to use HPDs to achieve the LEED v4 Material Ingredient Reporting credit.
Manufacturer Training
Case Studies
A series of pre-taped training sessions will reveal how to create an HPD report using the standard more quickly and efficiently.
Learn from the experience of manufacturers and design teams who’ve successfully created and used HPDs to make healthier choices about human and environmental health.
User Guides
Project Team User Guide v2.1.1
Manufacturer User Guide v2.1.1
Project Team User Guide v2.1
Manufacturer User Guide v 2.1
View Project Team User Guide v2.1.1 to support the use of material health information in the design, development, selection, and specification of building products.
View Manufacturer User Guide v2.1.1 to support the creation of material health information in the design, development, selection, and specification of building products.
View Project Team User Guide v2.1 support the use of material health information in the design, development, selection, and specification of building products.
View Manufacturer User Guide v2.1 to support the creation of material health information in the design, development, selection, and specification of building products.
Databases & Protocols
HPDC Public Repository
Chemical Hazard Data Commons
Healthier Materials Protocol Handbook
Materials Transparency & Risk For Architects
Health Product Declaration Collaborative provides the authoritative source for manufacturers publishing an HPD report to the Repository as a PDF file.
The Chemical Hazard Data Commons provides resources to assess and compare human and environmental health hazards of different chemicals, plus tools to collaborate to find safer alternatives.
The AIA has published a Healthier Materials Protocol handbook: “Prescription for Healthier Building Materials: A Design and Implementation Protocol” for architects and designers who are engaged in product selection and specification.
The AIA has published a Materials Transparency & Risk for Architects handbook: An introduction to advancing professional ethics while managing professional liability risks
Sample HPDs
Blank HPDs
Completed HPDs
View sample completed HPD formats: Basic Inventory, Nested Method / Material Threshold and Nested Method / Product Threshold.
View the three available HPD formats: Basic Inventory, Nested Method / Material Threshold and Nested Method / Product Threshold.