Benefits
By developing LEED Documentation and HPDs, your product reps will be able to:
- Increase their product specification opportunities by submitting requested documentation
- Fulfill mandatory AEC firm requirements to deliver lunch and learn presentations
- Integrate LEED information such as HPDs and EPDs into their AIA course presentations
- Submit LEED documentation to mindful MATERIALS and the Transparency Catalog
- Provide documentation for WELL, CHPS, Living Building Challenge, and other systems
What Is LEED Documentation?
Building product manufacturers can help contribute several points to LEED projects. LEED sets performance-based requirements. LEED professionals identify products that have the desired attributes for their buildings. Some LEED credits mandate that certain limits or minimums be met. Other LEED credits necessitate gathering specific product data into a spreadsheet to calculate the aggregate environmental or health value of a set of products. LEED documentation ensures product manufacturers have the tools to get specified on LEED projects.
Is your product LEED certified? The USGBC doesn’t certify or endorse products. However, HPDs, EPDs, Declare Labels, and VOC emissions testing are a few of the methods that LEED uses to make sure a product is LEED compliant for a credit. Building product manufacturers often become flustered by the complicated requirements for LEED certification. Our team provides a cost-effective program to increase your specification opportunities by having mandated LEED information for design professionals.
What Is A Health Product Declaration (HPD)?
The Health Product Declaration (HPD) provides a standardized way of reporting material contents of building products and the health effects associated with these materials. Perkins + Will, Smith Group, HKS, ZGF and other significant AEC firms encourage building product manufacturers to provide HPDs to be considered for product specification. Manufacturers who provide HPDs will be given preference over manufacturers that don’t comply with these requests.
Building product manufacturers develop HPDs to meet LEED v4 MR Credit: Building product disclosure and optimization – material ingredients. HPDs are the easiest and most cost-effective way to achieve this critical LEED credit. The new LEED v4.1 requirements are very similar but now manufacturers can obtain an additional ½ point for HPD verification.
Our team at Elixir Environmental helps building product manufacturers develop HPDs to meet the requirements for LEED v4, WELL, CHPS, and mindful MATERIALS. Developing HPDs can be difficult for building product manufacturers. Our team created the most cost-effective and user-friendly process in the industry. Once your HPD is completed it can be published to your website, integrated into your CE courses, and sent to AEC firms. Our team can help you develop your HPDs by:
- Manage the HPD project from beginning to end
- Identify all ingredients in your product
- Work with your supply chain to collect information
- Obtain data via Non-Disclosure Agreements
- Review and evaluate data from suppliers
- Help you publish a LEED v4 compliant HPD
- Educate your team on how to develop future HPDs
- Generate data for mindful MATERIALS/Transparency Catalog
- Coordinate HPD verification process if applicable
What Is The Declare Label?
The Declare Label is a product transparency disclosure that identifies where a product comes from, what it’s made of, and where it goes at the end of its life. Declare Labels can contribute to the Living Building Challenge and LEED v4. Building product manufacturers may develop Declare Labels to meet LEED v4 MR Credit: Building product disclosure and optimization – material ingredients.
The Declare Label has more stringent requirements than the HPD. Product contents must be disclosed by chemical name and CAS number to at least 100 ppm (0.01%), with few exceptions allowed. There are additional requirements for building products that have the potential to emit VOCs. Declare Labels are more appropriate for manufacturers who are farther along in their sustainability journey.
Red List Free products are 100% disclosed and do not contain any Red List ingredients. They have been shown to meet emissions testing criteria, if applicable, and meet the Materials requirements of the Living Building Challenge. The Red List has been a buzzword in the industry for years. Red List chemicals are banned for Living Building Challenge projects although there are a few exceptions. The Red List contains the worst in class materials prevalent in the building industry. Our team can help you develop Declare Labels by completing the following tasks:
- Manage the Declare project from beginning to end
- Identify all ingredients in your product
- Work with your supply chain to collect information
- Obtain data via Non-Disclosure Agreements
- Review and evaluate data from suppliers
- Help you publish a Declare Label
- Generate spec data for mindful MATERIALS/Transparency Catalog