Green Building Standards Integration

Leveraging Informed™ to Achieve Healthy Material Priorities

Informed offers an efficient and impactful way to achieve healthy material priorities while satisfying the requirements of leading third-party green building standards including WELL, Enterprise Green Communities, and LEED. With actionable product guidance and tools for benchmarking and assessment, Informed provides insights and analysis that can streamline material selection and documentation. Below are details on the specific requirements of how Informed integrates into each rating system.

Informed is integrated into the 2025-26 MN Overlay to the 2020 Enterprise Green Communities Criteria, which encourages optional points for education, benchmarking, and the selection of healthier products. Three main options specific to healthy material selection are:

  1. Criteria 1.8: Education on Actionable Solutions for Healthier Material Selection (Optional 4 points)
    1. This is a new criterion under Category 1: Integrative Design. The criterion requires project team members to attend training offered by Habitable and include Informed Product Guidance in key documents, including specifications.
    2. Habitable is offering in-person and web-based training in June 2025. After this point, training will be available via video recording. Learn more and sign up.
  2. Criteria 6.4: Healthy Material Selection (Optional 15 points Maximum)
    1. Option 1: Healthy Materials Benchmarking (Optional 5 points)
      This criterion requires teams to generate a project benchmark to understand current material health performance and identify opportunities for improvement. Criteria 1.8 is mandatory for projects pursuing Criteria 6.4. To benchmark, download and use the Informed Assessment Form.
    2. Option 2: Healthier Material Selection (Optional 10 Points)
      This criterion requires project teams to eliminate red-ranked product types and prefer those ranked yellow and green, which are healthier options.

Informed can contribute to the achievement of the WELL for residential Pilot Feature X02: New Materials Selection, where projects can meet the credit requirements by choosing product types that are ranked yellow and green in select product categories. Contact to learn more details about the credit.

A new version of Green Communities is under development in 2025. For resources related to the 2020 version, see Meeting Green Communities Criteria with Informed.

Habitable is currently piloting a materials-focused innovation credit with LEED that includes an integrative design approach to selecting and specifying healthier materials. Contact to learn more details about the credit.