What constitutes Green Building Materials?
What constitutes Green Buliding Materials? Green building materials are composed of renewable, rather than nonrenewable products. Green materials are environmentally responsible because their impacts on the environment are considered in relation to the life of the product. Depending upon project-specific goals, an assessment of green materials may involve an evaluation of one or more of the criteria listed below: Material selection criteria: • Resource Efficiency • Indoor Air Quality • Water Conservation • Affordability Resource Efficiency can be accomplished by utilizing materials that are: • Recycled Content: products with identifiable recycled content including postindustrial & postcomsumer • Natural, plentiful, or renewable: materials harvested from sustainably managed sources, and which preferably have an independednt certification (ie:certified wood) from an independedn third party. • Resource efficient manufacturing process: products manufactured with resource-efficient processe
