Health Product
Declarations
for the Insulating Glass
Industry
February 4, 2015
Agenda
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What is an HPD?
Who needs an HPD?
Why is it important?
How can you develop one?
What are the limitations of
HPDs?
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How are Building Products Selected?
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Functionality
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Strength
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Thermal resistance
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Acoustics
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Fire Resistance
Aesthetics
Code Requirements
Economics - First cost & life cycle costs
Installation & maintenance requirements
Sustainability
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Environmental impacts based on Life Cycle Assessment
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Various single-attribute criteria (recycle content, local, etc.)
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Human health concerns
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Supply chain concerns (conflict minerals, deforestation, slave
labor, etc.)
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The Age of Transparency is Here
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A major focus of green building is on building
products. Stakeholders are demanding
transparency.
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Implies openness, communication, and
accountability.
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Accessibility of information such as product
chemical content, health and environmental
impacts, and social concerns in the supply
chain.
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Your Customers are Demanding It!
Market Segments
• Commercial Spaces
• Healthcare/Hospitals
• Education
• Retail
• Multi-Family Residential
• Manufacturing Facilities
• Sports Stadiums
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Architectural firms
are demanding
HPDs!!
A Brief History of the HPD
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Late 2010 – Idea spurned from Healthy Building
Network and BuildingGreen
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2011 - Methodology and standard developed
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2012 – Piloted with several manufacturers
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11/2012 – HPD Standard v1.0 released
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Google gives $3 Million
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11/2013 – Recognized in LEED v4 (and
retroactively as a pilot credit in LEED v3)
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3/2015 – HPD Standard v2.0 to be released
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What Manufacturers are Involved?
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Who is Requesting HPDs?
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LEED Material & Resources Credit:
Building product disclosure and optimization – material ingredients
Intent: …To reward project teams for selecting products for which the chemical
ingredients in the product are inventoried…and for selecting products verified to
minimize the use and generation of harmful substances…
Option 1. Material Ingredient Reporting (1 point)
• Use at least 20 different permanently installed products from at
least five different manufacturers that use any of the following
programs to demonstrate the chemical inventory of the
product to at least 0.1% (1000 ppm).
o Manufacturer Inventory
o Health Product Declaration. The end use product has a
published, complete Health Product Declaration with full
disclosure of known hazards in compliance with the Health
Product Declaration open Standard.
o Cradle to Cradle
o Other USGBC approved program
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What is a Health Product Declaration?
• A Health Product Declaration (HPD) is a standard
format for the reporting of product content and
associated health information for building products and
materials.
• An HPD supports disclosure to customers and informed
decisions by building designers, specifiers, owners, and
users.
http://hpdcollaborative.org/
FAQ - http://hpdcollaborative.org/use-the-hpd/faq/
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Standard Formatting
• HPDs present building product ingredients in a
standard format that is:
– Consistent
– Transparent
• HPDs display:
– Manufacturer and product information
– Product testing and compliance certifications
– Product ingredients and associated health hazards
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Required Information to Develop an HPD
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All intentional ingredients added to the product (and
components)
• Chemical Abstract Service (CAS) numbers are useful
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Understanding of possible residual chemicals that may exist in
the product (not intentionally added)
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Weight % for each ingredient (or a range where appropriate)
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Functional description of each ingredient (structural, pigment,
anti-corrosive, binder, etc.)
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Presence of recycled content or nano technology
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CSI MasterFormat category of the product
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VOC test results (if applicable)
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Accessory products (required or recommended)
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Use the HPD Online Tool
http://hpdcollaborative.org/
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Challenges
Resistant material/component suppliers
• Provide data on a confidential basis and mask
proprietary information in the HPD, or
• Show them how to use the online HPD tool – they
can enter their material information and provide
the health results without identifying the material.
• Persistence and effective communication of the
value to the supplier is key!
• Depending on your leverage as a customer, you
may want to consider adding these disclosure
requirements to future purchasing contracts.
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Challenges
Residuals Identification and Quantification
Residuals Definition:
Known trace substances remaining in the
product from manufacturing steps (such as
monomers or catalysts) or contaminants that
come with raw materials. This may include
residuals known from testing as well as those
estimated as likely from assessment of process
chemistry.
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Challenges
Requires internal resources and detailed data
• Product engineer
• EHS
• Procurement
• Legal
• Sales
• Marketing
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Review of Industry HPDs
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I found 4 companies with published HPDs
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All have room for improvement
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Examples of issues/questions found on the HPDs:
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Claim of disclosure of all known health hazards, yet
does not list health hazards for substances on the 32
priority hazard lists (e.g. aluminum, polycarbonate)
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Claim of disclosure of all intentional ingredients, yet
ingredients are not listed per HPD Standard
requirements (e.g. “acrylic adhesive” is not a
chemical name)
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Use of “glass/mineral fiber” as the sole constituent for
glass.
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Example 1
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Example 2
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Disclosure Threshold
LEED eligible
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Intentional vs. Residual
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Intentional = “Each discrete chemical, polymer, metal, bio-
based material or other substance added to the product by
the manufacturer or suppliers that exists in the product as
delivered for final use requires its own line entry.”
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Residual = “Known trace substances remaining in the
product from manufacturing steps (such as monomers or
catalysts) or contaminants that come with raw materials must
also be listed in an HPD. If all ingredients that fall into the
residual category sum to more than 1%, then the largest
quantity ingredients are considered intentionally added and
must be disclosed as such.”
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Materials in an IGU (not all inclusive)
Glass
Low-e Coating
Seal
Silica
Aluminum oxide
Lithium carbonate
Feldspar
Magnesium oxide
Soda ash
Zinc oxide
Zirconium dioxide
Barium carbonate
Titanium dioxide
Arsenic trioxide
Ferric oxide
Dolomite
Calcium carbonate
Potassium carbonate
Recycled glass
Indium tin oxide
Silver
Ferric oxide
Other metal oxides
Hot melt butyl
Polysulfide
Polyurethane
Polyisobutylene
Silicone
Polyurethane foam
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Gas
Argon
Krypton
Xenon
Sulfur Hexafluoride
Blends
Spacer
Aluminum
Butyl
Foam
Stainless steel
Dessicant
Silica gel
Zeolites
Example IGU HPD
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Limitations of an HPD
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No consideration of risks associated with actual
exposure or bio-availability of materials
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No quantification of potential health hazards
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No consideration of materials used in manufacturing
which do not appear in the final product
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Self-declarations mean there’s no one validating
that HPDs are completed correctly (YET!)
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Restricted substances lists are not the same as
actual hazards – it’s like looking in a rearview mirror
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HPD v2.0 Coming Soon
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Document simplification and language modifications based on
users’ perception/understanding of terms
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Reference to third party verification protocol
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HPD ‘Binder’ format and process for complex assembly products
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Revised approach to Hazard Summary
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Review of Priority Hazard Lists
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Clearer explanation about content line item expectations for
interactions, reaction, and degradation/transformation products
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Documentation of best practice guidelines for generic commodity
materials where further disclosure isn’t necessary at this time
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Review of reporting levels for intentional ingredients and residuals
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Your Next Steps
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Discuss HPDs with key stakeholders and business
leadership in your organization and decide if there is
support for developing an HPD.
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Download and review the HPD Standard.
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Identify a project manager and key personnel who
can support data collection and development of
the HPD.
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Once developed, tell your customers that you have
it, and train your sales team how to talk about it.
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Integrate results into the New Product Development
Process.
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Questions?
Jim Mellentine
Corporate Sustainability Manager
Sustainable Solutions Corporation
[email protected]
610-569-1047
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