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Richard Keleher Richard Keleher, Architect I would really like you to review PVC roofing as one of the materials you look into; TPO roofing ...
Tobin Oruch Los Alamos National Lab PVC is used as a single-ply roofing membrane fairly commonly, yet there’s no mention of this in t...
Dudley Greeley University of Southern Maine It is not clear how the various elements of the study were “weighted” but it appears The Precauti...
William Carroll OxyChem General Comment. I support the conclusions of the USGBC TSAC report. This is an outstanding att...
Martin White OxyVinyls General Comment. I was pleased to see TSAC appropriately decided that negative credits should no...
Steve Kemp OxyChem General Comment. The USGBC TSAC report comes to the correct conclusion, and is a good attempt to...
Ted Schettler Dept of Medicine, Boston Medical Center General comments on the committee approach: The committee used a novel, non-validated method f...
Ted Schettler Dept of Medicine, Boston Medical Center General comments on TRACI: TRACI acknowledges large uncertainties in input parameters. It es...
Debbie Schober OxyChem General Comment. Negative credits for vinyl are not warranted when the life cycle of competing p...
Deborah Wallace Consumers Union The TSAC Analysis of PVC Fires and Their Impacts The TSAC report uses only two databases, a me...
Andrew Potts Cahill Associates, Inc. The report does not seem to address the potential market implications of LEED incorporating a PVC...
Richard Becker American Chemistry Council General Comments: Overall, the approach used to evaluate potential risks was science-based, tran...
Glenn D’Alessio Worcester State College Your task force making no determination, namely a negative one about vinyl, baffles me. Were we t...
Craig Kneeland NYSERDA I have a great deal of respect for the people who put this study together. Having gone through a...
Craig Kneeland NYSERDA The number of references to Vinyl Institute data surprises me. I would think that the potential ...
John Stuart Occidental International Corp. General Comment. I support the conclusions of the USGBC TSAC report. This is an attempt to brin...
Jeff Church Plastic Pipe and Fittings Association (PPFA) General Comments: The Plastic Pipe and Fittings Association (PPFA) appreciates the opportunity t...
David Yopak Teknor Apex Company Teknor Apex Company agrees with the conclusion of the TSAC PVC Task Group that the evidence does ...
Kristi Ennis Boulder Associates, Inc. I do not see in this document where any consideration is given to the fact that certain chemicals...
John Blue California Integrated Waste Management Board Generally, the concept of narrowing the focus of this report to products in which PVC has signifi...
Terrence Collins Carnegie Mellon University I write to urge the US Green Building Council not to grant PVC a materials credit in LEED. L...
Arthur E. Dungan Chlorine Institute The Chlorine Institute is pleased to be able to comment on the USGBC TSAC PVC Draft Report dated ...
Lucia Athens City of Seattle The philosophical approach of proving impact and risk versus using the Precautionary Principle is...
Lucia Athens City of Seattle The analytical approach is fundamentally flawed, in that it looked at too narrow a category of bu...
Lucia Athens City of Seattle The USGBC is not alone in its desire to grapple with the PBT issue. The State of New York, the Ci...
Glen Gilbert Cascadia Chapter On behalf of the entire Cascadia Region Green Building Council Board of Directors, we respectfull...
Joseph Thornton University of Oregon TSAC was charged with preparing a scientific assessment of the evidence on PVC’s environmental an...
Bruce Maine HDR Architecture While I am not any advocate of PVC in the built environment, I believe the work of the committee ...
Stephen Lester Center for Health, Environment & Justice These comments are submitted because we believe that green buildings should be environmentally he...
Jack Geibig Center for Clean Products and Clean Technologies
University of Tennessee		 After having reviewed the report entitled “Assessment of Technical Basis for a PVC-Related Materi...
Eric Ridenour A green building program seeking leadership status should take a zero tolerance approach to the m...
Eric Ridenour The analysis of this Draft submitted by the Healthy Building Network is both compelling and thoro...
Gabe Wing Herman Miller Response to the USGBC Draft Report on PVC Herman Miller would like to thank the USGBC for its...
Stacey Gonzalez The Center for Health, Environment and Justice As Coordinator of the Childproofing Our Communities Campaign, a nationwide coalition of over two ...
Nancy Mears WA State Dept of Ecology Regulators and industry may have to accept that there are not necessarily safe doses of many of t...
Susan M. Young Chemical Fabrics & Film
Association		 The Chemical Fabrics and Film Association (CFFA) has reviewed the TSAC PVC Task Group Report. We...
Mike Kolosseus North American Pipe Corporation (Westlake Chemical) North American tries to recycle 100% of its scrap PVC pipe, thereby reducing the amount of virgin...
Mike Kolosseus North American Pipe Corporation (Westlake Chemical) North American tests for exposure to PVC in its facilities and its measurements are below the OSH...
Karl Bren GreenVisions Consulting I STRONGLY urge USGBC to discourage the use of PVC as a green building material. I read the repor...
Charles Halling Walsh Construction Co. A new article by respected environmental journalist Marla Cone lays bare the question of whether ...