What products are used in green buildings?
A. Building materials typically considered to be ‘green’ include rapidly renewable plant materials like bamboo and straw, lumber from forests certified to be sustainably managed, recycled stone and recycled metal. Other products that are non-toxic, reusable, renewable, and/or recyclable e.g. sheep wool, panels made from paper flakes, baked earth, rammed earth, clay, vermiculite, flax linen, sisal, sea grass, cork, expanded clay grains, coconut, wood fiber plates and calcium sand stone.
• Building materials typically considered to be ‘green’ include rapidly renewable plant materials like bamboo and straw, lumber from forests certified to be sustainably managed, recycled stone and recycled metal. Other products that are non-toxic, reusable, renewable, and/or recyclable e.g. sheep wool, panels made from paper flakes, baked earth, rammed earth, clay, vermiculite, flax linen, sisal, sea grass, cork, expanded clay grains, coconut, wood fiber plates and calcium sand stone.
