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BuildingGreen s Top-10Green Building Products
Jim NewmanBuildingGreen, Inc.
The First Five
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BuildingGreen, Inc.
Drivers of Green BuildingProduct Development
• Environmental concerns– Especially global climate change– Loss of rainforests and other important ecosystems– Toxic releases
• Higher energy costs– Gasoline prices– Electricity prices
• Health concerns– Americans spend 90% of time indoors
• Water shortages and drought
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BuildingGreen, Inc.
BuildingGreen s basis ofproduct assessment
• “Life-cycle thinking”• Detailed criteria we’ve developed over ten-
plus years• Frequent revisions to GreenSpec criteria
– Periodic changes to criteria
• Eventually we hope to base selection onthird-party EPP certification, perhaps evenfull life-cycle assessment (LCA)
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BuildingGreen, Inc.
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BuildingGreen, Inc.
What Makes a Product Green?
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BuildingGreen, Inc.
What s New With Products?
• New products coming out all the time• Tremendous breadth of green
building products in the marketplace• Plan to review a small sampling of
new and particularly innovativeproducts
• All products from our GreenSpecresearch
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BuildingGreen, Inc.
Top-10 Product: Collins PineFreeForm Particleboard
• FSC-certified– Not as an extra-cost
option, but all product– Most FSC products are
extra cost
• No added urea-formaldehyde
• Meets CARB Phase 1standards forformaldehydeemissions
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Collins Pine FreeForm Particleboard
• Melamine binder– Contains formaldehyde,
but meets LEED Credit– Does not darken material
as does phenol-formaldehyde binder
• Company working onbinder formulations to meetPhase II of CARB standard
• Hopes to eventuallyeliminate formaldehydeentirely– Experimenting with soy
binders
FreeForm is commonly used asveneer-core material
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BuildingGreen, Inc.
Collins Pine FreeForm Particleboard
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BuildingGreen, Inc.
What Makes it Green?
• GreenSpec Criteria:– Pre-consumer recycled
content– FSC-certified wood– Releases minimal
pollutants
• LEED credit relevance:– MR Credit 4: Recycled
content– MR Credit 7: Certified
wood– IEQ Credit 4: Low-
emitting materials
FSC-certified raw material forFreeForm particleboard
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BuildingGreen, Inc.
Collins Pine FreeForm Particleboard
In the Collins Pineparticleboard plant,orange bandingmeans FSC-certified;blue means no-addedurea formaldehyde
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BuildingGreen, Inc.
Top-10 Product: 180 Walls fromMilliken & Company
• 100% Pre-consumerrecycled commercialwallcovering
• Vapor-permeable• Self-adhesive backing
eliminates need for paste• Silver rating in McDonough
Braungart DesignChemistry Cradle-to-Cradlecertification
• Certified to GreenguardChildren & Schools Program
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BuildingGreen, Inc.
180 Walls from Milliken
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BuildingGreen, Inc.
What Makes it Green?
• GreenSpec Criteria:– Alternatives to
hazardous components– Pre-consumer recycled
content– Releases minimal
pollutants
• LEED credit relevance:– MR Credit 4: Recycled
content– IEQ Credit 4: Low-
emitting materials
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Top-10 Product: BoschEvolution 800 Series Dishwasher
• Most energy efficientfull-size dishwasheravailable
• Energy Factor of 1.14– 148% higher than federal
standard– 73% higher than Energy
Star Standard
• One of the quietestdishwashers on themarket at 42 dBA
Evolution 800 Series SHE98M
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BuildingGreen, Inc.
Bosch Evolution 800 Series
• Also available inIntegra Line– Slightly different
styling• Bosch commitment to
energy efficiency– Only appliance
manufacturer with100% of products inapplicable productareas achievingEnergy Star ratings
• Manufactured in theU.S. by Germancompany
Evolution 800 Series SHE98M -Controls on door
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BuildingGreen, Inc.
What Makes it Green?
• GreenSpec Criteria:– Equipment that
conserves energy ormanages loads
– Fixtures and equipmentthat conserve water
– Noise control
• LEED credit relevance:– EA Prereq 2: Minimum
energy performance– EA Credit 1: Optimize
energy performance
http://drought.unl/dm
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BuildingGreen, Inc.
Bosch Integra 800 Series
Identical to EvolutionLine; different styling
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BuildingGreen, Inc.
Top-10 Product: LifeGuard Cablefrom Houston Wire & Cable
• Nearly all electrical anddata cable today containhalogens, heavy metals,plasticizers
• LifeGuard one of the onlyalternatives
• Low-smoke• Available with no PVC, nofluoropolymers (Teflon)
• Most are lead-free• Meet European RoHS
requirements (Reduction inHazardous Substances)
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BuildingGreen, Inc.
What Makes it Green?
• GreenSpec Criteria:– Alternatives to
hazardouscomponents
– Reduces impactsfrom construction ordemolition
– Releases minimalpollutants
• LEED creditrelevance:– None
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LifeGuard Cablefrom Houston Wire & Cable
• Used primarily for high-reliability needs– Utility– Industry
• Also in densely occupiedcommercial spaces:– Hospital– Transportation– Universities
• Little if any use inresidential projects to date
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BuildingGreen, Inc.
Top-10 Product: LED Downlights fromLED Lighting Fixtures, Inc.
• Efficacy 60 lpw– Higher than CFLs
• CRI 92– Higher than fluorescent
• 42 LEDs per fixture– Red & yellowish-green
LEDs to create white light
• 10.7 watts - 650 lumens• Long life (50,000 hours)
No mercury• Fits standard 6” cans• Cost: $125-130 list
www.LLFinc.com
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LED Downlights from LLF
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BuildingGreen, Inc.
What Makes it Green?
• GreenSpec Criteria:– Alternatives to
hazardous components– Equipment that
conserves energy ormanages loads
• LEED credit relevance:– EA Credit 1: Optimize
energy performance
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BuildingGreen, Inc.
LED Downlights from LLF
Century Equipment Corp• First commercial
installation• Installed 90 LLF lights• Very happy with
performance
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LED Downlights fromLED Lighting Fixtures, Inc.
Sentry Equipment Corporation,Wisconsin
Grand Award winner:2007 Lighting forTomorrow Competition(sponsored by U.S.DOE and others) -Solid State Lightingcategory