Green Paint for Green Buildings
Wattyl i.d has a range of low VOC “green” paints that will help in achieving a “Green Star Rating”. The Green Building Council Australia’s Green Star Rating on “Indoor Environment Quality” (IEQ-11) aims to encourage and recognize projects that reduce the detrimental impact on occupant health from products emitting pollutants. The Green Building Council has awarded Wattyl i.d with 2 points towards the credit where 95% of all painted surfaces are low VOC.
Wattyl i.d low VOC paint is 99.7% free of VOC’s in untinted product, well within any limits set by the Green Building Council, APAS or international standards. It also has no paint odours one hour after painting in a ventilated room, so painting and reoccupation of the premises can be done in the same day.
VOC emissions are reduced by around 80 times when painting with i.d low VOC compared to painting with traditional painths (CSIRO tested).
Wattyl i.d has been verified by “Good Environmental Choice Australia” which is the only environmental labelling program indicating environmental performance of a product from a whole product life cycle perspective and conforms to international environmental labelling standards.
The Australian Paint Approval Scheme (APAS) has approved the Wattyl i.d low VOC paints to specification 0215/1,2,3,4 & 5.
The modern trend towards green buildings with its emphasis on energy efficiency, is contributing to a worsening of the problems of poor indoor air quality (IAQ). Airtight buildings are good for reducing heat and cooling costs and the related greenhouse gas emissions. But they trap polluted air with dangerous efficiency. This is a challenge that poor IAQ poses for people in our homes, workplaces, schools, hospitals and many other buildings. The most vulnerable are likely to be affected…children, the aged, the infirm and the chemically sensitive. There is extensive evidence to suggest that asthma and other respiratory disease sufferers are at particular risk. So using Wattyl i.d low VOC free paints with no paint odour* would be the perfect choice.