Specifying Healthy Building Materials: GreenScreen for Safer Chemicals
3WStudio, LLC, provides professional services to help contractors, subcontractors, owners, architects, engineers, and lawyers according to national standards. The services available are set according to the standards of AIA, CSI, AGC, DOJ, ADA, ANSI, LEED and many others. We will create or teach you how to make CSI format specifications, submittals, pay requests, shop drawings, requests for information (RFI'S), change order requests (COR'S), and more. We assist in preparation for arbitration and job meetings. We explain how to respond to job related paperwork, and explain 'The Rules'; contract documents, drawings, and specifications. We will act as a field representative for the owner, contractor, architect, engineer, or subcontractor, provide construction administration, observation, field reports, documentation, code review & analysis, expert witness testimonry, and arbitration & negotiation.
Wednesday, August 3, 2016 - 1:00pm to 2:00pm EDT
In this one hour presentation, we will explore the GreenScreen® for Safer Chemicals and GreenScreen® List Translator, and how to use the results to make informed material selection decisions in the building industry. We will discuss how the entire supply chain - from suppliers and manufacturers, to designers and consumers - can utilize GreenScreen to reduce the use of chemicals of high concern, while increasing the use of inherently safer chemicals.
- 1. Understand the value of chemical hazard assessment in making informed chemical and material selection decisions.
- 2. Understand the value of GreenScreen as a standardized metric and communication system for chemical hazard and the scientific rigor behind the method.
- 3. Know what GreenScreen and List Translator assessment results look like and what they mean.
- 4. Learn how GreenScreen and List Translator results can support informed decisions in the building industry.