Guide to Clean Building Materials for Multi-family Housing
Toxic-Free Future’s Healthy Materials Matrix
A simplified guide to choosing clean building materials for multi-family housing
About this guide
This guide was adapted from the healthier materials section of the Master Specification tool, a resource created by the Housing Development Consortium’s Exemplary Building Program. Gladys Ly-Au Young, principal and co-founder of Sundberg Kennedy Ly-Au Young Architects, was the primary driver of the Exemplary Building Program’s inclusion of the healthier materials section in the Master Specification Tool. The full Exemplary Building Program steering committee collaborated on the development of the healthy building material section, with insights, guidance and reviews from Toxic Free Future and Healthy Building Network.