How can you create a healthy home by reducing toxic emissions?

And what should you target for the biggest impact in a new build or renovation?

Andy Pace, Founder of The Green Design Center in Wisconsin, USA, shares key strategies for reducing toxic emissions in any project, and how to review your material and product selections for your healthy home.

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Hello! This is Episode 335, and in it, I’m continuing my conversation with Andy Pace from The Green Design Center in Wisconsin, USA, where we dive into the most impactful decisions in a new build when creating a healthy home.

We also discuss improving indoor air quality, how to support your health and well-being through your project choices and decisions, and the process Andy uses to audit the integrity of the products he stocks at The Green Design Center.

We finished Episode 334 with me asking Andy for his main suggestions on the most impactful decisions and choices for a healthy home when building new. 

Andy, in his role as a Healthy Home Concierge and Founder of The Green Design Center, has loads of experience in helping homeowners do this in their own projects. And, he’s soon to be building his own new home, so that’s given him lots of opportunities to test this personally as well.

That’s where this conversation kicks off, and then we talk a lot about reducing toxic emissions in your home, what to target to improve indoor air quality, and how to support your health and well-being – and that of your family as well – when making selections in your design and construction process for your project.

And lastly, Andy shares how he audits and reviews materials and products to avoid the greenwashing in the industry, and ensure his selections and the products he stocks at The Green Design Center actually perform to their promises!

Wherever you’re tuning in from, this episode is full of super helpful tips and insights.

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Let me take a minute to remind you of Andy’s professional experience and credentials before we dive into Part 2 of my conversation with him.

Andy Pace is a Healthy Home Concierge and Founder of The Green Design Center, a leading resource for homeowners and contractors looking to source products that are healthy and green and receive expert consulting advice on designing and building healthy green homes.

Andy is also the host of the weekly Non Toxic Environments Podcast. He is a worldwide expert on green and healthy building products and services customers and contractors from around the globe. 

As founder of the oldest healthy building supply company in the United States, Andy has become one of the single most helpful and educational experts dealing with the day-to-day concerns of those individuals who suffer from allergies, asthma and chemical sensitivities.  

If a healthy home is a priority for you in your renovation or new build, I hope you find my conversation with Andy super helpful.

I always love connecting with colleagues in other parts of the world. It continues to reinforce that there are more similarities and commonalities between us in how we build and renovate our homes, than there are differences. 

And I love also learning how others in the industry are helping and supporting homeowners navigate these challenges in their projects, and of course, introducing you to more great people in the industry as well.

RESOURCES: 

Green Design Centre

Website >>> https://www.thegreendesigncenter.com/
Facebook >>> https://www.facebook.com/greendesigncenter/
Instagram >>> https://www.instagram.com/nontoxicenvironments/
Podcast >>> https://www.thegreendesigncenter.com/non-toxic-environments/

On the Low Tox Life Podcast with Alexx Stuart

• What Makes a Healthy Building >>> Episode 295 https://www.lowtoxlife.com/show-295-what-makes-a-healthy-building-the-building-the-materials-the-maintenance-it-all-matters-with-andrew-pace/ 
• Building a Healthy Home from the Ground Up >>> Episode 299, Low Tox Life (https://www.lowtoxlife.com/show-299-building-a-healthy-home-from-the-ground-up-with-andy-pace/) 

Other helpful Undercover Architect podcasts: 

• Episode 231 ‘Mould in Your Home? Here’s what to do’ >>> https://undercoverarchitect.com/podcast-mould-in-your-home-alexx-stuart-low-tox-life/ 
• Episode 4 of Season 8 ‘An Introduction to Building Biology | Interview with Narelle McDonald, Healthy Living Spaces’ >>> https://undercoverarchitect.com/podcast-introduction-to-building-biology-narelle-mcdonald-healthy-living-spaces/ 
• Episode 287 ‘Your home’s health: With Zara D’Cotta, The Healthy Home [NCC Series]’ >>> https://undercoverarchitect.com/podcast-your-homes-health-zara-dcotta-healthy-home/ 
• Episode 288 ‘Building a healthy home: With Zara D’Cotta, The Healthy Home [NCC Series]’ >>> https://undercoverarchitect.com/podcast-building-a-healthy-home-zara-dcotta/ 

Access the support and guidance you need to be confident and empowered when renovating and building your family home inside my flagship online program, HOME METHOD >>> https://undercoverarchitect.com/courses/the-home-method/ 

Learn more about how to interview and select the right builder with the Choose Your Builder mini-course >>> https://undercoverarchitect.com/courses/choose-your-builder   

Access my free online workshop “Your Project Plan” >>> https://undercoverarchitect.com/projectplan