The Easy Way to Select Healthier Building Products

Informed™ is HBN’s new online materials modeling tool that makes it simple to choose healthier building products.

Informed™ is backed by HBN’s decades of research on the health impacts of chemicals in building products across their life cycle and uses a simple color-based system to rank product types.

The Informed™ Product Explorer helps you find product material health information in minutes - not hours.

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Informed helps demystify decisions about selecting healthier building products by better displaying data about their contents.

— Rodolfo Perez, Ph.D., Senior Director, International WELL Building Institute

Informed makes it really easy to make responsible and impactful decisions when it comes to your materials and products.

— Joiana Hooks, Fitwel Amb., Designer II, Cooper Carry

Como desarrolladora, los presupuestos siempre son un tema difícil. Informed me permite determinar qué materiales son los más saludables que puedo utilizar para realizar un presupuesto específico. Lo cual me parece un potencial increíble. (view translation) As a developer, budgets are always a difficult subject. Informed allows me to determine what materials are healthier so that I can go in and budget for them specifically. It’s a wonderful tool to use in that regard. (view original)

— Frances Isabel Pimentel Nevares, Project Owner-Developer Rep / Regenerative Developer

Assess the Health of Your Project

Data is power. The Informed™ Project Assessment Form enables users to generate and visualize building product data in ways that were previously not possible.

Informed™ allows your team to:

Identify chemical hotspots in your projects and across your portfolio
Create benchmarks
Set goals
Illustrate findings for stakeholders.

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Image of one page of the Informed Assessment Form, showing the percentage of products in each category and overall that meet the criteria of 'yellow and above', 'orange and below', 'multiple rankings,' and 'undetermined.'

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2.5 trillion square feet by 2060

We are projected to add an entire New York City to the planet every 34 days for the next 40 years if we maintain our current rate of construction.

Informed™ helps build a healthier planet by taking toxic chemicals out of the equation.

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