Building Materials - Top-10 Green Building Products for 2003

BuildingGreen Announces Top-10 Green Building Products
http://www.buildinggreen.com/press/topten/index.cfm
  • EnvironOxide pigment from Hoover Color Corporation in cooperation with Iron Oxide Recovery, Inc.;
  • BioBase 501 soy-based foam insulation from BioBased Systems, Inc.;
  • MemBrain "smart" vapor retarder made by CertainTeed parent company Saint Gobain;
  • American Pride latex paint produced by Southern Diversified Products in cooperation with the University of Southern Mississippi;
  • Mineral silicate paints made by Keim Mineral Systems;
  • EnviroGT wall and corner guards made by InPro Corporation;
  • Laboratory casework from Case Systems, Inc.;
  • Mirra office chair from Herman Miller, Inc.;
  • Hot Water D'MAND system from Taco, Inc.;
  • EcoPower faucets from TOTO USA, Inc.

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Used Building Materials - Recycling for Your Money and Earth

Introduction :
How to recycle a house
(deconstruction companies salvage reusable building materials) (includes information on need to protect watershed from development)
Mother Earth News, Feb-March, 1998, by Joyce Yeung, Cara Joy David
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m1279/n166/20187701/p1/article.jhtml
Online Resources:
http://bcn.boulder.co.us/environment/ubma/
Used Building Materials Association
The UBMA is a non-profit, membership based organization that represents companies and organizations involved in the acquisition and/or redistribution of used building materials.

http://directory.google.com/Top/Science/Environment/Pollution_Prevention_and_Recycling/ Materials_Exchanges/Building_Materials/
Google Directory

http://www.epa.gov/region1/assistance/reuse/bldg.html
epa resouce center

http://listings.ebay.ca/plistings/list/all/category3187/?from=R10
eBay Category

http://www.happyharry.com/
Happy Harry's Used Building Materials is the trade name of a chain of independently owned and operated used building material stores.(It has stores in BC)

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Building Material and Environment

Here are resources for Building Material and Environment issue.

www.healthybuilding.net
The Healthy Building Network (HBN) is a national network of people and organization who are interested in promoting healthier building materials as a means of improving public health and preserving the global environment.

www.healthybuilding.net/healthcare/Key_Questions_for_EPP_Building_Material.pdf
Key Questions for Environmentally Preferable Building Material Selection
www.epa.gov/greenbuilding/material.htm
Green or Environmentally Preferable Building Materials

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Building Materials - Type of wood

Wood that used as building materials include :
Ash, Cherry, Fir, Hickory, Mahogany, Maple, Oak, Pine, Redwood, Spruce, Hemlock, Teak, Walnut, Cedar. (Generally, hardwood is good for flooring and other furnitures)

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Building Materials - Granite or Marble?

Granite and marble both are nature stones and very popular building matrials.
Granite is siliceous stone and composed mainly of silica or quartz like particles. Granite is formed deep in the earth’s mantle at extremely high temperatures and is very hard and resistant.
The Marble family: limestone, marble, onyx, and travertine. They are calcareous stones and composed mainly of calcium carbonate. So they are not hard as granite but eaier to cut and carve.

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'Building Materials' ?

Building Materials

Building materials includes flooring (wood flooring, tile flooring, stone), roofing, plubming, insulation, plumbing, lighting, millwork, paint, doors and other building related materials.

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