*GREEN Building*
Improve indoor air quality, eliminate toxic chemicals and create a healthier home, office or apartment with hundreds of the best name brand products, most of which are sustainably certified and qualify for LEED points.
What Makes a Product GREEN?
There are many reasons because "Green" and "Green Building" apply not just to products but to construction strategies, building design and orientation, landscaping, building operations, maintenance etc. If you're considering building or remodeling a home or office and are faced with doubts about whether to build Green, perhaps this will offer some inspiration.
Here are Some Myths of GREEN Building:
Myth - Building Green is more expensive.
Myth - Green Products don't really help the environment.
Myth - If it's zero VOC it must be Green.
Myth - Green Building is not as structurally sound as conventional building.
Myth - Green Building may work in other area's, but it won't work here.
Myth - Green Products are hard to find.
Myth - It's an all-or-nothing proposition.
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Ask Weather Shield - Can a window glass help save the world?
In a word - YES! Every year windows consume up to 3.8 quadrillion BTU's of energy, totaling more than $30 billion annually, in the form of heating & cooling our homes. However, if every one the approximately 2 million new homes built every year achieved the minimum 15% energy savings that Zo-e-shield provides, the 30 year accumulated savings of those homes would be well over $100 billion dollars.
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Therma-Tru's Environmental Responsibility
Therma-Tru’s fiberglass entry door systems are ENERGY STAR compliant and NFRC Certified helping homeowners save money on energy costs and protect the environment through superior energy efficiency. Filled with CFC-free; polyurethane foam, Therma-Tru fiberglass doors offer five times more insulation than a wood door. In fact, the average R-value (measure of thermal resistance) of a Therma-Tru fiberglass door is almost as insulating as the wall of an average home. The wood products used in Therma-Tru Door systems such as the door frame components come from managed forests. Therma-Tru partners with wood suppliers that utilize various certification standards including SFI6, CERTFOR Sustainable Forest Management Standard, and the State of Oregon’s Forest Practice Act, to ensure that the wood products it uses come from managed forests.
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EcoTimber
Is it Really Eco? Don't be Fooled!
Wood suppliers often make claims that their products come from "managed" or "sustainable" forests, but without independent certification, there is no way to really know. Increasingly, such claims are used as a marketing ploy to "greenwash" material that came from destructive forestry practices. That’s why it’s important to buy certified wood, BUT. . .
The fact that a wood product is "certified" does not mean that it comes from an ecologically-well managed forest. There are now various types of forest certification (see below), and most do not have meaningful environmental standards, enforcement mechanisms, or methods of tracking the wood through the supply chain to keep out illegally-logged material and prevent misrepresentation..
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LP CanExel - BUILDING GREEN WITH LP® PRODUCTS
LP engineered wood building products utilize strand and fiber technology, both of which provide superior strength, stability and uniformity. They also use raw material more efficiently than solid-sawn products. They’re manufactured and installed with less waste. And since they’re composed of 100 percent certified sustainable wood, all of our products help to promote sustainable forest management.
* LP CanExel uses 100% SFI-certified wood from small diameter, rapidly regenerating trees.
* As an engineered product, LP CanExel® siding uses less raw material and offers more consistent performance than traditional products.
* Because it is pre-finished CanExel® siding requires no additional finish.