Please join Alpar Architectural Products in celebrating the launch of the Health Product Declaration (HPD) Open Standard Version 1, the first open standard format for reporting contents and chemical hazards in building products.
Alpar was one of the 29 building product manufacturers that worked with the Health Product Declaration Pilot Project Committee to provide input into the standard, which will be maintained by the newly-formed HPD Collaborative. As part of that effort, we provided full disclosure of chemical contents and corresponding known health information of the products we make. Our feedback about the format and process for disclosure helped the Committee develop the HPD Open Standard Version 1, which will be unveiled at Greenbuild.
We believe that transparency and disclosure are critical to cutting through greenwash and providing designers, specifiers and owners with meaningful information for making informed decisions. The HPD Open Standard provides a valuable tool for streamlining that process. The HPD Open Standard and a press release with more information is available at www.hpdcollaborative.org.
We hope that Alpar's participation in the HPD Collaboration will help inspire other manufacturers to disclose their product information, and that designers and specifiers demand this information for the products they specify.
Sincerely,
Lisa Britton, CSI, CCPR, LEED AP BD+C
