Sick Building Materials Smell Bad – What if it’s too late and the building stinks?
Thursday, 16 August 2012
Sick Building Materials Smell Bad- What if it’s too late and the building stinks? At least once a week we get the following call… “We were so careful to only allow healthy materials in our project. But we just moved in and it stinks! We’re worried the building materials smell bad. Can you come test
- Published in Environmental Testing, Green Building Consulting
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Electricity Generating Bicycles – Make Electricity and Burn Fat!
Wednesday, 06 June 2012
What if you could create electricity while you worked out? Well, it turns out you can. The following article about electricity generating bicycles was written by Warren Neilson Humans convert food energy (measured in calories) into chemical energy that is used by moving muscles. The body is about 20% efficient meaning that only 20% of
- Published in Green Building Consulting
Green Cleaning Recipes for Spring Cleaning
Sunday, 20 May 2012
Green Cleaning Many cleaning products contain hazardous chemicals and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that pollute the air and may impair human and animal health. Natural cleaning products protect the health of home inhabitants and are as effective as their toxic counterparts. We have compiled some all natural recipes for spring cleaning to keep your home
- Published in Healthy Building Inspections & Testing
Radioactive Granite and Quartzite – Risks from Radon
Friday, 27 April 2012
Radioactive Granite and Quartzite – Risks from Radon A Green Building client of ours is busy selecting interior finishes for their new healthy home. When we get to countertops the inevitable question is asked, “Are there any health concerns about natural radioactive granite and quartzite?” The answer is yes. Some quarries are producing relatively radioactive granite
- Published in Environmental Testing, Healthy Building Inspections & Testing
Green Building Logos can be scary…
Wednesday, 28 March 2012
Some Green Building Logos Are Scary… Green Building logos are full of leaves and trees. Use Google Images (“green building logo”) and that’s just about all you’ll see. It’s overdone. We struggled with these logo concepts when coming up with our new logo. How do you quickly illustrate nature-loving and “green” without a leaf or plant?
- Published in Business, Green Building Consulting
“Healthy Building Inspections” transitions to “Healthy Building Science”
Saturday, 18 February 2012
“Healthy Building Inspections” transitions to “Healthy Building Science” Blogging. I admit this is my first time. It’s hard to know where to begin. The previous few posts were created by our web designer who cut and pasted links from our old site into a few blog entries so the data wasn’t lost. Later this year
- Published in Business
Free and Easy Ways to Protect Your Family Today
Sunday, 01 January 2012
This modified excerpt of free and easy ways to protect your family is from a Building Biology brochure created in conjunction with Melody Chan Graves. We go the extra mile to protect the safety and health of those we love. But many of us don’t realize that there is a world of silent killers and disease-causing agents
- Published in Healthy Building Inspections & Testing
Green and Sustainable Building Resources – 2011
Saturday, 10 December 2011
Green Building Resources – 2011 These green building resources offer free educational materials about Green Building, Healthy Building, and Sustainable Building. These are really all different names for the same thing: “High-Performance Building” Healthy Building Science supports and has relied on these green building resources ourselves, so we are happy to share them with you!
- Published in Green Building Consulting
Electromagnetic Field (EMF) Resources – 2011
Wednesday, 30 November 2011
EMF Resources Electromagnetic fields and radio frequency radiation are increasingly becoming hot-botton issues. A five-day seminar from the Institute for Building Biology & Ecology (IBE) is where Alex first learned about the health affects from EMF, and how to measure and mitigate EMF in buildings. EMF resources are becoming increasingly common, but good sites are diamonds in
- Published in Environmental Testing, Healthy Building Inspections & Testing
Building Biology Resources – 2011
Wednesday, 30 November 2011
The Institute for Building Biology & Ecology (IBE) is truly a remarkable organization. In the 70’s they brought very forward-thinking German design/build/testing protocols to the US. Since then the organization has flourished and many of the top environmental consultants in the country have gone through their training and certification program. There are not too many good Building
- Published in Green Building Consulting