Low Emitting Material, Paint, and Coatings
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Low Emitting Material, Paint, and Coatings
The Canada Green Building Council (CGBC) is a national not-for-profit corporation that allows all building owners, designers, and architects to fallow LEED certification for their buildings. There are a number of benefits to obtaining certification; for human health, publicity purposes, and environmental impact, amongst others. The certification program consists of a number of categories and checklists that responsible parties can make changes to their building construction and/or renovation process in order to meet LEED requirements. The total number of points obtained will allow supporters to become accredited by LEED in the follow categories: certified, silver, gold, and platinum (CGBC, 2004). This paper will investigate in detail how supporters can obtain credit for using low-emitting materials in building construction such as paints in order to improve the overall indoor life quality of their building.
Goals of the Credit
Credit 4.2 in the LEED checklist
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This document must be signed by the architect or responsible party for the building (CGBC, 2004). The document must state that the building complies with the VOC and chemical component limits or restrictions listed with each standard (CGBC, 2004). In the advent that an audit is requested during the certification process, the responsible party should provide cut sheets, Material Safety Data sheets, signed attestations or any other official documentation from manufacturers that clearly identifies the VOC contents of products that were used (CGBC,