Healthy Building Network

“Effective june 17, 2015, the board no longer needs to consist of an odd number of directors. The organization changed the terms of directors. Effective june 17, 2015, board terms are three years, except that one seat may be designated an "at-large" term that is not subject to this limit. Directors may serve a maximum of two consecutive terms, except that a third term may be served so long as the board member has served as incoming president (vice-president), president, and immediate past president. Board terms shall coincide with the fiscal year of the organization. Subject to these requirements, the board may organize rotation of board terms as it sees fit.”

“The executive director, operations director and finance director review the 990 tax return upon receipt from the preparers. Each reviews the return separately and then meet to review and answer any questions each person may have. A copy of the 990 is also forwarded to the audit committee for review and subsequently to the rest of the board of directors. When the review process is complete an officer of the organization then signs the return.”

“The organization annually reviews the conflict of interest policy with the board of directors and key employees. The organization requires disclosure of any interests that may present a conflict of interest.”

“A. The salary of the executive director is reviewed annually by the board of directors. B. Key employees salary amounts are reviewed by the executive director on an annual basis.”

“A. The salary of the executive director is reviewed annually by the board of directors. B. Key employees salary amounts are reviewed by the executive director on an annual basis.”

“Documents are available upon request.”

“Hbn is the leading national organization advocating health-based, green building standards that reduce the use of highly toxic chemicals in building materials. Hbn's mission is to transform the market for building materials to advance best environmental, human health and social practices.”

“The pharos project the pharos project (pharos) is hbn's primary strategy in support of its mission to transform the building products market to promote best environmental, health and social justice practices. Pharos is an online system, comprised of three (3) main parts: building product library, chemical and material library, and certifications. Together, they provide subscribers to pharos with a wealth of information on the chemical composition of specific and generic building materials, and the health and environmental hazards associated with those ingredients. The chemical and material library is an extensive database of chemical hazards, compiled from over 40 authoritative governmental and nongovernmental lists. In addition, product manufacturers and other pharos users can access chemical assessments developed under the greenscreen for safer chemicals in pharos. The public can also access information essential to understanding building materials and the human and environmental health hazards associated with their contents. Descriptions for building product categories summarize the key issues for each. The pharos' blog, the signal, highlights new research, policy issues and market developments. Data from the pharos chemical and material library now powers a number of strategic private sector initiatives that are calling attention to the use of toxic chemicals in the building product supply chain, including bluegreen alliance's chemhat app for workers, health product declaration (hpd) collaborative's hpd builders, the quartz project's common product profiles and google's portico. Portico google's portico is a customized building product evaluation and library system engineered by hbn, in collaboration with google's real estate and workplace services team. Google teams use portico to select building materials consistent with the corporation's transparency and health criteria for construction projects worldwide. It is now used by project teams in 20 countries to screen building products for chemical hazards on more than 20 million square feet of real estate. Compair pharos now includes compair, a calculator that allows users to measure and compare the volatile ingredients in products as applied in a building project. Compair takes into account hazardous vocs exempted by the leading voc certifications, to give users a more accurate picture of product's health profile. Data commons the advanced information and communication technologies that hbn pioneered in the building industry have the potential to drive greater collaboration and transformation in other sectors. That is why hbn is leading an effort to create the data commons open innovation platform, a platform for the most up-to-date, global information regarding chemical health hazards, and how they apply to the products we manufacture, specify and use. The informed choices resulting from this information will lead to market preference for healthier products. This change will shift manufacturer incentives to create healthier materials and chemicals, drive innovation, feed entrepreneurship, and redirect today's chemists, materials scientists, engineers and inventors in the service of healthier outcomes. Building materials research over the last 15 years, hbn's research department has become the go-to source for data and analysis of building materials and health. In 2015, hbn collaborated with flux factory, google and thinkstep on the quartz project, an effort to create health hazard and life-cycle profiles for 100 common building materials. Quartz common products are the first open data set in the building products sector. Hbn lead the development of the research methodology, and researched hundreds of specific, name-brand products to determine the content of common products. Health hazards for quartz profiles are pulled from the pharos chemical and material library. Homefree for healthy and affordable building materials homefree is a national initiative, supporting afforda”