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and Certi cates at CertainTeed.com/CeilingsEPD.
We believe sustainability must go hand in hand with transparency. That’s why we’ve issued the industry’s first series of Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs), as well as the first Health Product Declarations (HPDs). Both EPDs and HPDs are transparency tools that help consumers and end users understand our commitment to improve the environment and produce products with health and well-being in mind.
EPDs are third-party verifications that confirm the true sustainability of our products. Our EPDs are certified through UL Environment, an independent organization working to advance global sustainability. It’s just one more way to demonstrate how sustainability is central to everything we do. Our EPDs cover more than 27 of our ceiling product families.
CertainTeed Ceilings, in cooperation with the Health Product Declaration CollaborativeTM, a customer-led organization committed to transparency for
the building industry’s health and environmental performance, has developed HPDs to provide a vehicle to facilitate disclosure. The HPD is an open standard design that allows manufacturers to disclose components of their products and help architects and owners make informed decisions about the products they purchase and their impact on human health. HPDs are now available for over 40 CertainTeed Ceilings product families.
In addition to EPDs and HPDs, the majority of CertainTeed Ceilings products are independently tested and certified for VOC compliance with California Department of Public Health CDPH/EHLB/Standard Method Version 1.1, 2010. This standard of testing is more restrictive in terms of emission reductions than previous test versions. Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), such as formaldehyde, have been proven to have negative effects on productivity, health conditions and occupant well-being. Today's tighter building envelopes make Indoor Air Quality performance of paramount importance to occupant well-being, and product transparency vehicles such as EPDs, HPDs and Certificates of VOC Compliance provide the peace-of-mind designers and building owners demand.
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