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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

LEED Material Ingredients Credit

Lunch & Learn Series

Practitioners Speak – Discussion Series Panels

4 Simple Steps to Transparency Now

Coming Soon! A new course on how to receive LEED v4.1 credit for Building Product Disclosure and Optimization: Material Ingredients. 

HPDC’s set of condensed e-learning opportunities based on the information included in our continuing education course titled, “The Empowered Design Professional: Using HPDs to Make Healthier 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.

Project Team Training

Manufacturer Training

Healthy Materials Lab

Case Studies

A series of pre-taped training sessions will show your team how to use HPDs to achieve the LEED v4 Material Ingredient Reporting credit.

A series of pre-taped training sessions will reveal how to create an HPD report using the standard more quickly and efficiently.

Explore the new frontier of healthier materials. Change the future of building—and improve the quality of lives. Take a course, browse the Material Collections and use the Lab’s Tools & Guides.

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 – AIA

Materials Transparency & Risk For Architects – AIA

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 

AIA Code of Ethics

MSR Design Action Packet

Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct states guidelines for the conduct of AIA Members in fulfilling those obligations.

 MSR Design’s guidelines and staff training around transparency, sustainability and health from their materials library.

Ecosystem Programs

Material Buyers Club

Sustainable Facilities Tool

HAMP

LP50

Learn about the purchasing power of large organizations who are moving the market towards healthier products.

Learn about the largest catalog of products compliant with the Federal Green Procurement Guidelines.

Learn about four organizations partnering in the Healthy Affordable Materials Project (HAMP).

Learn about Living Product 50 (LP50) a collaborative of over 40 leading manufacturers closing the loop on transparency.

HomeFree Resources

Learn about Healthy Building Network’s national initiative to help the affordable housing sector improve human and environmental health.