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Building industry growing ever greener: Part 2 of 2; Plastics trade groups grapple to influence mandatory standards.(National Association of Home Builders of the United States)
Plastics News, August, 2005 by Toloken, Steve
Byline: Steve Toloken, Angie DeRosa Improper influence? Bill Walsh, the national coordinator for the Healthy Building Network, an environmental group that considers vinyl a toxic material, questions what interest the vinyl industry would have with neuroscience, and sees VI sponsoring conferences as an attempt to influence AIA and its leaders.
The topic is of keen interest to AIA executives, including Chief Executive Officer Norman Koonce, who sits on the board of AIA's Academy of Neuroscience in Architecture. VI, which is part of the American Plastics Council, said it funded the neuroscience conferences because they were opportunities to get a pro-vinyl message to architects, and the discussions, which looked at how building design influences things...
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