Building Clean Home Radon Levels Go From Low to Dangerous within 150 Feet Sep 18, 2020 Building Clean and its Habitat for Humanity partner in Rochester, N.Y., have found a cautionary example of how radon exposure can vary greatly even in the same neighborhood.
Building Clean Building Clean Teams up With HPN Select to Help Affordable Housing Owners Find Local Building Products Oct 30, 2019 Building Clean and HPN Select, a Housing Partnership Network social enterprise, announced a partnership to help affordable housing owners find locally manufactured building products. With Building Clean’s assistance, HPN Select will add the manufacturing location—city and state—to thousands of building products in the Select EcoGuide, a database highlighting the health and sustainability of materials used by nonprofit multifamily housing developers.
Building Clean What’s In Your Water? Aug 07, 2019 PFAS are a family of man-made chemicals that arrived on the scene in the 1950s and have been manufactured and used in a wide variety of consumer products ever since. An estimated 99 percentof Americans have traces of PFAS in their blood.
Building Clean Latest Project from A Tiny Home for Good Applauded by Building Clean Jul 26, 2019 A Tiny Home for Good today held a ribbon cutting ceremony in Syracuse after the completion of its latest project, four homes at 216 Slocum Avenue in Southeast Syracuse.
Building Clean Literally Building Green Jun 27, 2019 Architects and designers can play a huge role in helping to improve health and wellness by bringing nature into buildings and surrounding environments. A landmark study by Danish researchers found that children who grow up surrounded by more green space have up to a 55 percent lower risk of developing mental disorders later in life.
Building Clean Building Clean: Buy Local, Buy Healthy Jun 19, 2019 Americans spend almost more than two-thirds of their lives inside their homes, and while news stories about what’s in our cleaning or personal care products are seemingly everywhere these days, how often do we think about what’s in the structure surrounding us?
Building Clean Long Live Your Community: Building an Enduring Resilience Takes More Than Stronger Buildings May 30, 2019 Michael, Florence, Harvey, Willa, Camp Fire, and Maria are no longer just names. They are reminders of natural disasters that dismantled communities and left devastation in their wake. This is just a partial list of what has hit our shores in the past two years, and they won’t be the last.