Susan, I'll bite... here's a thread devoted to the EHHI report, for anyone who would like to share their impressions. I can start the discussion with a link to this article on the EHHI report, which I wrote last year when it came out. (That should also serve as a good intro to the report for anyone reading this saying "what's EHHI?"
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Susan Walter
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July 15, 2011 - 10:22 am
My initial reaction was that EHHI should have spent more time understanding LEED and how it works. If they had done any research they would have found how popular the IEQ credits are across project teams and where public health issues are embedded into other categories. I was especially puzzed by the section on water infrastructure. A single building project rarely has opportunity to impact that issue.
But we're discussing chemicals here and they did have a good point about the LEED HC credit being dropped into the pilot credits. What I would like to see is more understanding of chemistry in the design community. What is green chemistry and how to better access products. For example, one of my interior designers gave me a new flooring product to evaluate. The wear layer is PVC (bad) but it is no wax which is good for the application. So do we eliminate a chemical up front or eliminate chemicals in operations?