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Building Standards

4 tools & guides

Harvard Green Building Standards

Harvard Office for Sustainability

Harvard established Green Building Standards in 2007 for internal construction projects, and has updated them every few years since then. The current version is from 2017. Their standards include guidelines for material selection and transparency and for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Creating Healthy Indoor Air Quality in Schools

Environmental Protection Agency

Base for the EPA's resources on improving Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) in schools, with a variety of guides, best practices manuals, training literature, and project frameworks.

Healthy Schools, Healthy Kids

Environmental Protection Agency

Take action to improve children's health! EPA's comprehensive schools website offers all the resources you need to establish, maintain, or enhance a school environmental health program.

Active Design Playbook for Early Childhood

New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

The Active Design Playbook offers project ideas to promote healthy physical and developmental benefits of gardening, outdoor play and indoor play for children early in life. The Active Design Playbook for Early Childhood Settings was developed by the Health Department with valuable input and contributions from Brooklyn Forest School, the Children’s Museum of Manhattan, Columbia University’s Child Health Initiative for Learning and Development (CHILD), and Marpillero Pollak Architects.

Professional Practice

5 tools & guides

Healthier Building Materials Protocol

The American Institute of Architects

This document, from the AIA and ARUP, offers project teams a protocol for choosing products that are healthier over their full life cycle for humans and the environment.

Healthy Materials Method Cards

Discover how material health can be integrated into each phase of the design process with version 1 of this free downloadable deck.

Out of Sight: A call for transparency from field to fabric

Fashion Revolution

In this report, Fashion Revolution alongside Tamil Nadu Alliance call upon more than 60 major apparel brands and retailers to increase transparency beyond the first tier by disclosing the processing facilities and textile mills in their supply chains.

How to Steal Your Workers’ Future

Clean Clothes Campaign

Fair Wear Foundation Wage Ladder

Fair Wear Foundation

The Fair Wear Foundation Wage Ladder is an online tool that allows the wages paid at any textile factory to be compared against a range of wage benchmarks to understand a product's social impact.

Maintenance and Operations

2 tools & guides

BPE Gypsum Wallboard Closed Loop Recycling

Building Product Ecosystems, Parsons School of Design

Hear directly from the stakeholders involved in gypsum wallboard’s life cycle why it's important for gypsum recycling to transform current systems.

Homes For Health

Homes For Health offers quick guides with simple steps that people can take to make each area of their home healthier. Each room guide contains a few recommendations and five expert tips that readers ...