For instance, your product might have an overall level of bronze, but your material health category might be at a gold. All websites created in house by HBN. “Unlike any other tool in the marketplace, Portico clearly outlines the journey for manufacturers with five key steps to material health: inventory, screening, assessment, optimization, and transparency while the criteria and scoring system helps to recognize progress along the path. Portico provides a platform suite of applications for enabling the payroll and accounting services and solutions provided by TopSource.

Google’s global design and construction teams will use the product’s score to guide their material selection process.

The Google Healthy Materials Program evaluates all building products and materials through a rigorous screening process and uses criteria based on established industry standards that value transparency and material health. In 2014, we tested the beta version of the Healthy Materials database. 1605, from It. Our family of partner companies includes retail strategy and design consultancy Portland; transportation planning consultancy Nelson\Nygaard; healthcare technology planning firm Genesis; and luxury hospitality design firm Pierre-Yves Rochon (PYR).

“We are especially thrilled to include our HomeFree affordable housing leaders as part of our founding members. “For the past 15 years Healthy Building Network has been a leader in creating the tools and championing the policies that make health and well-being a top priority in the building industry,” said Bill Walsh, Founder and President of the Board of Healthy Building Network. HomeFree currently includes an online resource providing critical information to the affordable housing community, as well as six Communities of Practice, spotlighting on-the-ground demonstration projects across the country. Note: The material health program category level is the only level taken into account when scoring. “Google has long sought a means to bring our values and commitment to healthy buildings to life, and Portico provides us with the platform  to do so,” said Anthony Ravitz of Google Real Estate Workplace Services. In addition, Portico strengthens the marketplace by fostering competition and aggregating information on healthier building products, allowing for more informed and better specification for bidding and negotiations.”, "As the first founding partner from the higher education community, Harvard is excited to use and contribute to Portico for the advancement of healthy materials at universities, companies and everywhere,” said Heather Henriksen, Director of the Harvard Office for Sustainability (OFS). “We are also thrilled to be aligning the Red List, Declare and the Living Product Challenge with Portico's Healthy Materials criteria in order to transform the materials industry.”. Lastly, Portico connects manufacturers and their supply chain to their users, providing a direct communications channel to request and provide more detailed information about specific products, streamlining the communications process and saving time and money in the process. “We have had great success in collaborating with Google on Portico for the last two years and today we are excited to count industry leaders Perkins+Will, Durst, Harvard, and affordable housing innovators among our partners in the effort to create healthy built environments.”. Portico Application Suite. Since 2015, Google has been testing Portico on internal design and construction projects and using it to establish and communicate the company’s values and priorities around human health, informing decisions that meet Google’s healthy materials criteria, and product scoring based on reliable and transparent manufacturer supplied data. “Increasing the tools available for using the data reported in HPDs is a critical next step in evolving practice in healthy materials. This bright future is not only a win for Google but for many generations to come. Chan School of Public Health's Center for Health and the Global Environment with HBN and Google that will foster opportunities for our faculty and students to use the rich data available to generate new research and support existing initiatives on healthy buildings that are already underway at Harvard.

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