The Health Product Declaration (HPD) Open Standard continues to gather support for its goal of assuring accuracy of building material product content and associated health information by seeing that the data is reported in a consistent manner.
GreenWizard, provider of a cloud-based product management and project collaboration software, is the latest industry participant to sign on.
Click here to learn more about the HPD Open Standard. BD+C
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