September 4, 2006—A San Francisco-based company is looking for a marketing niche by supplying information to contractors and owners about building with non-toxic products and health-conscious methods.
The firm says its data is compiled from several years of research about the health safety of common construction materials and practices. The company, Saferbuilding.com, launched a Web site recently that offers how-to guides, a certification program, and environmental disclosure forms.
The company aims to advance safer building methods in order to protect the health of workers on jobsites and future inhabitants of structures being built.
The certificate program allows owners to document a structure’s toxicity status. Owners fill out a questionnaire with details about a structure, and the responses are evaluated by Safer Building’s staff. Three levels of certification are given, establishing the amount of toxic material existing within the building, which owners can then use to document levels of toxicity in the building for future tenants or inhabitants. Certification costs $80 per property.
