Mandate and Vision

2.1 Mandate

The mandate of the Healthy Indoors Partnership is to bring industry, government and non-government organizations together to identify, develop, implement and manage activities designed to create healthier indoor environments in Canada.  HIP is not intended to replace or duplicate existing efforts to improve indoor environment quality, but rather to complement and help coordinate them. 

2.2 Vision

All across our nation, people live, work, and learn in healthy indoor environments. The environments inside our buildings help us reach our full potential for good health and productivity. No one is excluded: we create healthy buildings at every income level and help all our children grow up to be healthy adults. We understand the importance of healthy indoor environments, create a demand for them, and expect them as something everyone deserves. By choosing designs, ventilation systems, materials and products wisely, and maintaining and operating our buildings in a healthy manner we are able to create healthy buildings while substantially reducing energy use, cutting material costs, and raising productivity. Canada’s success in improving human health indoors serves as a model for better building design and construction, rehabilitation and maintenance, and product development around the world.
     
2.3 Mission

To facilitate multi-sectoral collaboration and partnerships to create and maintain healthier indoor environments in Canada. 

1.         To establish and grow the capacity of the Healthy Indoors Partnership.

• Expand partnership base to have a balanced representation of organizations in different market , government and NGO sectors, and different geographic regions.
• Develop relationships with funding and granting agencies to support establishment of the Healthy Indoors Partnership. To advance and monitor the implementation of priority action items identified by      partners of the Healthy Indoors Partnership. 

      Specifically:

• To achieve major health gains and improve professional education.
• To foster the design of healthier new and renovated buildings.
• To stimulate nationwide action to enhance and maintain health in existing structures.
• To create and use innovative products, materials, and technologies.

To promote health conscious individual behaviour and consumer awareness.