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What are the high-impact materials that can be most influential to a building's health performance? Martha Lewis identifies product categories that can be primary considerations, including facade
What are the high-impact materials that can be most influential to a building's health performance? Martha Lewis identifies product categories that can be primary considerations, including facade
4_2a_2_Martha lewis_Material Categories- Where to Keep an Eye Peeled.mp4Key Terms
Key Terms
- Identity-giving
- Transparent products
- Facade
- Chromium
- Binder
- Off-gassing
- Mineral based
- Criteria
- Adhesives
- Formaldehyde
- Isocyanates
Discussion Points
Discussion Points
- Many of the greatest health concerns are not in the highly visible, identity giving architectural products. Some of the more hazardous chemicals are in the transparent products, -- it’s in the glues, the joint compound, the sealants, the fire retardants that the problem substances can be found. And as we are designers and quite visually oriented, this can be a bit of a disappointment – first it’s hard to see where the problems are, second if you do it right no one can recognize, at least visually the effort taken.
RESOURCES
RESOURCES
Nordic Swan Ecolabel
Nordic Swan Ecolabel
TAKEAWAYS
TAKEAWAYS
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