Putting the Health Back Into Health-Care Textiles
Textiles are key to designing health and safety into our hospitals—and the industry is changing its thinking about how these fabrics should be made.
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How Architects Can Help Make the Built Environment Healthier
Metropolis’s director of design innovation, Susan S. Szenasy, led a talk at CookFox’s New York office on architecture, data, advocacy, and health.
How New Wellness Standards Are Reshaping Architecture
This year, a new set of sustainability codes and standards addressed an often-overlooked ecosystem: the human body.
Can Vinyl Really Be Sustainable? One Manufacturer Bets on Yes
One carpet company is expanding its product line to include vinyl tiling—and still promising to have 100% of its materials recycled or bio-based by 2020.
With Its Silica Prints Collection, Momentum Goes PVC-Free
With the launch of the Silica Prints collection, Momentum Textiles is now a fully PVC-free company.
Low-Tech Tool Helps Designers Create Healthier Spaces
Activist designers work to reveal the chemistry and environmental impact of furnishing products.
World Architects Pledge Zero Carbon by 2050
The UIA has adopted a measure to eliminate carbon emissions by the midcentury.
Painting Innovation: Q&A with Steve Revnew
The Sherwin-Williams Vice President of Product Development discusses the company's latest advances in fighting airborne pollutants.
Advocates Stand up for the Built Environment's Material Health
Healthy products advocates collaborate, see a growing market
A PVC-Free Textile Made from Sugarcane
A revolutionary biobased textile uses sugarcane as its raw material.
What Does a Construction Provider Make of HPD?
From designers to owners to occupants, everyone is interested in making our buildings healthy.
It's Show-and-Tell Time for Building Product Manufacturers
The design community gears up for an all-hands-on deck campaign for healthy products.
Q&A: Health Care Expert Robin Guenther on Healthy Products
Concerned health care designer shares her hopes for Health Products
With Its Handcrafted, Healthy Materials Approach, BiO Ups the Ante
Wetstyle set out to combine the purity of environmentally-sound material with industrial durability
Q&A:The Head of the Health Product Declaration Collaborative
Look for a slow, steady, reasoned transformation of the marketplace
New Action Group to Expose The Ingredients of Our Building Products
Healthy building materials—and a transparent system to evaluate them—are the keys to healthy buildings.
Radical Green: Living Building Challenge Pushes Sustainability Ahead
You think LEED Platinum is hard? The Living Building Challenge is sustainable design’s new cutting edge.
