First open standard format for reporting content & hazards in building products
After more than a year of development, green building industry leaders officially released the Health Product Declaration (HPD) Open Standard Version 1, an open standard format for reporting contents and chemical hazards in building products. The announcement was made by the Health Product Declaration Collaborative, a new non-profit membership group that will manage the HPD Open Standard.
The HPD Open Standard is available free to all at www.hpdcollaborative.org. Building product manufacturers will use it to provide standardized disclosure of product contents, emissions and health information. The HPD Open Standard streamlines the process for communicating and using this information
by defining the critical information that is needed by building designers, specifiers, owners and users to make informed decisions.