Healthy Building Materials Essentials
Healthy Building Materials Essentials is a self-paced, open-enrolment online course exploring how building materials influence human health and indoor environments. It is designed for broad, foundational education in material health.
You’ll learn how to evaluate materials beyond marketing claims, understand common exposure pathways, and make informed, health-conscious decisions for homes and projects.
This course is suitable for health-conscious homeowners, designers, builders, and consultants seeking a clear, practical understanding of material health.
For those seeking professional certification and formal responsibility, this course is the recommended entry point to the Certified Healthy Building Professional (CHBP) program.
Learn how materials affect health
Healthy buildings are not created by labels, trends, or “low-VOC” claims. They are shaped by material behaviour, exposure pathways, and informed judgement over time.
Healthy Building Materials Essentials is a foundational course for those who want to understand how building materials interact with human health, without claiming professional authority or certification.
This course teaches you how to think critically about materials, not what to blindly specify.
Healthy Building Materials Essentials
Understand how materials affect health.
Healthy buildings are not created by labels, trends, or “low-VOC” claims.
They are shaped by material behaviour, exposure pathways, and informed judgement over time.
Healthy Building Materials Essentials is a foundational course for people who want to understand how building materials influence health.
This course is designed for
Designers, builders, consultants, interior designers, and serious renovators who want material literacy without claiming certification
Professionals who sense that compliance and product labels are not enough
Anyone who wants to understand why health risks emerge where they do inside buildings
What you’ll gain
A clear framework for evaluating material health beyond marketing
Understanding of how materials emit, age, and interact with air and moisture
Insight into where risk concentrates and why
Confidence to ask better questions and recognise scope limits
How this fits
Healthy Building Materials Essentials is a standalone course and the recommended entry point for those considering CHBP.
If you decide you want to carry responsibility, not just understanding, Certified Healthy Building Professional is the next step.
Format
Self-paced online course
Practical, structured lessons
Designed for immediate real-world application
Investment
AUD $1,297
When you enrol in Healthy Building Materials Essentials, you’ll receive a $400 credit toward the Certified Healthy Building Professional (CHBP) program.
How it works:
The $500 credit is valid for 12 months from your HBME enrolment date
The credit applies to one CHBP enrolment only
The credit is non-transferable and not redeemable for cash
This credit cannot be combined with other discounts unless stated
This credit recognises shared foundational learning while preserving the distinct scope and responsibility of CHBP.
Healthy Building Materials Essentials teaches you how materials influence health so you can make smarter, safer choices with clarity and confidence.