Mission and Vision

Mandate 

HIP's purpose is to involve private, public and not-for-profit organizations and individuals in the development, implementation and financing of a broad range of collaborative actions to improve indoor environments in Canada. This partnership approach offers supporters a significant return on investment. 

Mission

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

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.

Our vision has been adapted from the one used by the UAS EPA's Healthy Buildings, Healthy People Process.

Guiding Principles

What follows are HIP's overarching operating guidelines. They are designed to set the tone for the organization. They also provide a litmus test against which to assess it. Actions taken by HIP must be reconciled against these guiding principles. HIP's guiding principles are:

• Outcome Focused: initiatives undertaken by HIP will achieve measurable outcomes. Commitments should be taken in good faith with a determination to fulfill them.
• Partnership Based: HIP's members will come from all sectors of the economy and are committed to working together to advance indoor environment issues across the country. Working in partnership means sharing the responsibility, resources and successes. Such sharing requires communication, transparency, empowerment and equal participation. This approach will increase the likelihood that HIP projects will be sustained and achieve results.
• Inclusive: HIP is not about finger pointing or ascribing blame. The HIP operates by consensus and is accountable to its stakeholders for developing practical and innovative responses to existing and emerging indoor environment issues.
• Independent: HIP does not represent any one agenda. We are independent and impartial. Our focus is on creating and maintaining healthier indoor environments.