Healthy Interiors: Choosing Materials That Contribute to Healthy Building Practices

Learn how to assess the human health risks of chemicals used in building products and materials.


Continuing Education Approvals
  • 1 IDCEC CEU | HSW | CC-111610 (Your CEU will be reported to IDCEC on your behalf)
  • 1 AIA LU | HSW | ASIDHLTHINT (AIA Members: Please contact education@asid.org to have your completion reported)


Description

Designers are thinking about occupants’ health and safety now more than ever. How can they select the best materials to support safe spaces? Learn from the founder of the Healthy Building Network, Bill Walsh, how building materials impact our health and wellbeing. The program explores healthy building practices that increase transparency in the building products industry, reduce human exposure to chemicals in building materials, and create incentives for healthier innovations in manufacturing. 

This is a recording of a webinar presented on May 19, 2020.


What You Will Learn
  • Describe the impact of materials on the built environment.
  • Explain the connection between a healthy space and healthy occupants.
  • Identify sources to assess health risks of chemicals used in products and materials.
  • Examine ethical codes of healthy materials and spaces.


Access Period: One year from registration date. 

Bill Walsh

Founder & Strategic Advisor, Healthy Building Network

Bill Walsh is the Founder, and a Board Member, of Healthy Building Network (HBN). He now serves as Strategic Advisor to the organization. Since 2000 HBN has been defining the leading edge of healthy building practices that increase transparency in the building products industry, reduce human exposures to chemicals in building materials, and create market incentives for healthier innovations in manufacturing. He has been Visiting Professor at Parsons The New School for Design, is a Fellow of the Lowell Center for Sustainable Production at the University of Massachusetts, and a founding board member of the Health Product Declaration (HPD) Collaborative. Bill and HBN have been awarded the Design for Humanity Award by the American Society of Interior Designers (2019); WEACT for Environmental Justice Leadership Award (2018); Healthy Schools Network Hero (2013); US Green Building Council’s Leadership In Advocacy Award (2012). He holds a J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law and LLM in Public Interest Advocacy from Georgetown University.

Bryan Soukup, Esq. (Moderator)

Vice President, Government & Public Affairs

American Society of Interior Designers

As Vice President of Government and Public Affairs for ASID, Bryan J. Soukup, Esq., leads the Society's strategic efforts to advocate for the interior design profession from a legislative, regulatory, and policy perspective before the federal and state governments. He is the Society's sole registered federal lobbyist and chief advocate at the state and local levels. Prior to joining ASID in summer 2018, Bryan served as Director of Resilience Initiatives and as a registered federal and state lobbyist for the International Code Council (ICC).  He is a licensed attorney in the District of Columbia and in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

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Healthy Interiors: Choosing Materials That Contribute to Healthy Building Practices Part One
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Healthy Interiors: Choosing Materials That Contribute to Healthy Building Practices Part Two
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Healthy Interiors: Choosing Materials That Contribute to Healthy Building Practices Part Four
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Healthy Interiors: Choosing Materials That Contribute to Healthy Building Practices Final Quiz
10 Questions  |  5 attempts  |  13/17 points to pass
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Course Feedback Survey
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Course Completion and Credit Certificate
1.0 IDCEC CEU HSW credit  |  Certificate available
1.0 IDCEC CEU HSW credit  |  Certificate available 1 IDCEC CEU |HSW and 1.0 AIA LU | HSW awarded upon successful completion of the course. REPORTING: ASID will report CEUs earned directly to IDCEC on your behalf. AIA Members: Upon completion, please notify education@asid.org, including your AIA member number, the course name, and date completed. We will report your completion to AIA on your behalf.