Leed Cork Flooring

Since all of these cali bamboo products are constructed from bamboo the most rapidly renewable wood resource leed projects using these materials receive credits towards their projects under this scenario.

Leed cork flooring. Leed certification contribute cork. All cali bamboo plywood flooring decking and fencing product lines could contribute to mr credit 6. Cork underlayment contain between 90 by weight post industrial recycled content in the form of granulated cork. Material and resources mr.

Blending these two resilient materials into a single product delivers the improved low frequency acoustical performance of rubber while the cork granules provide improved adhesion and working characteristics. Cork is a harvested product and an environmentally sound choice for flooring. Protecting and increasing natural carbon stores is a major component of a recognized strategy to combat climate change. Resilient green flooring cork is a completely renewable resource harvested as bark from living cork trees never harmed by the harvest.

The following are the suggested points achievable. Cork is a rapidly renewable material as defined by leed these materials have less than a 10 year growth cycle agglomerated cork is certified fsc controlled wood sa cw 002408. 1 point use materials with recycled content such that the sum of the postconsumer recycled content plus one half of the pre consumer content constitutes at least 10 of the total value of the materials in the project. Cork is a sustainable building material because it is a rapidly renewable material as defined by leed these materials have less than a 10 year growth cycle agglomerated cork is certified fsc controlled wood sa cw 002408.

Our cork flooring is composed of 100 post industrial recycled content from wine stopper production. All of our natural cork flooring are green. To make any cork product the cork oak tree is never cut down. Globus cork glue down cork tiles are the most environmentally friendly product in the cork flooring line.

The result is a high performance sound control underlayment suitable for virtually any hard surface flooring application. The following contributing leed credits are applied when using jelinek cork products such as cork underlayment cork flooring acoustical cork wall tiles cork fabrics and more. Rather the bark of the cork oak tree is harvested from the tree every 9 years leaving the forest undamaged. The individual building products are not leed certified its the finished structure or interior that is certified.

Cork oak trees can live for a few hundred years so cork forests rate as a great carbon storage.