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• -U.S. Green Building Council
• -1993
• -Created LEED-1995
• -Promotes buildings that are green
• -Non-for-profit

• -Using energy efficient green materials
• -Carbon Footprint is monitored

Misleads customers in believing their product is green.

• 1. sustainable site development
• 2. water efficiency
• 3. energy efficiency (& atmosphere)
• 4. materials selection
• 5. indoor environmental quality

• -MBDC McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry
• -Certified for building exterior and interior products
• -Coined by Walter R. Stahel in the 1970's
• -Recycling and using materials for a new product.
• -Product decomposes entirely
• -No impact on environment

• -Continuous cycle using existing waste
• -The waste of one product is used in making another product.

• -Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
• -Green building rating system
• -Voluntary, consensus-based
• -Standard for developing high-performance sustainable buildings

• -Non Profit
• -Environmental standards
• -Evaluates and awards operations

-Certifies wood for sustainability for manufacturing

Program that saves us money and protects the environment through energy efficient products and practices

• -Promotes water efficency
• -Makes it easy for Americans to save water and protect the environment
• -WaterSense label for quality, water-efficient products.

• -Non-profit organization
• -1990's
• -Responsible for maintaining, overseeing and improving a sustainable forestry certification program that is internationally recognized and among the largest in the world.

• -Renewable energy
• -Wind, solar, water, geo-thermal

-Dollar value on product from beginning to very end.

• -VOCs Volatile Organic Compound
• -Radon Gasses
• -Mold and Bacteria
• -Sick Building Syndrome- building has products that make people sick from off gassing. Symptoms- headache, allergies, red eye, pneumonia, carcinogenic
• -Asbestos
• -Air Borne Toxins, Tobacco Smoke
• -Ozone

• Light (Luminance) is measured in footcandles
• Use CFIs- Compact Flourescent

• Control Sound
• STC - Sound Transmission class - rating of sound

Home - Platform wood frame, studs 2 x 4

Commercial - Steel frame (incombustible)

• Advantages
• -Durable, strength from rebar
• -Pigments
• -Different sizes, precast or on site

• Disadvantages
• -Porous, rusts, stains, very heavy
• -Needs to be sealed
• -Long cure time

• Soft- Sedimentary, uniform, sandstone
• Medium- Metamorphic, veined, marble
• Hard- Igneous, granular, granite

Polished vs. honed

• -Sustainable, recycled material
• -Made of chips, resin, cement, apoxi
• -Used with divider strips to prevent cracking and allows patterns to take place

• Ferrous - made with iron, rusts easily from air and H2O
• -stainless, steel, wrought iron
• Nonferrous - no iron
• -copper, aluminum

• Polymer, carbon atoms, oil
• Thermoplastics- soft when heated, acrylic, nylon, vinyl
• Thermoset- hard, stay set, not flexible, cultured marble
• Glass- made by melting silica, doesn't affect things around it

• Wall tile- absorbs water
• Floor tile- absorbs less water

• Porcelain - impervious - dense and frost resistant
• -Different sizes, texture, install is easy, color, glaze

• Float Glass
• -95% used today
• -Made by pouring molten glass and cooling slowly (annealing)
• -ASTM, American Society for testing materials, specs for float glass, largest voluntary standards development organizations

• Tempered Glass
• -Outer Surface cools quicker than outer core
• -3-5 times stronger

• Laminate
• -2 or more layers of glass bonded together
• -wire glass, prevents shattering

• Textured
• -Etched or sand blasted, weakens glass

• Low Emissivity Glass
• -Solar energy

• Insulating Glass
• -Air pocket between glass

• Tile
• Bisque-body
• Glaze- on top

• Non-vitreous (wall)
• 7% or more of weight in water
• Semi-vitreous
• 3-7%
• Vitreous
• .5-3%
• Impervious
• 0-.5%
• Easy to install, low maintenance, colors, no bacteria, sustainable

• -Unglazed
• -Slip resistant
• -Earth tones
• -Dense

• -Patterns, add texture
• -surface depth

• Thick
• Mortar 3/4-2"

• Thin
• Thin as 3/32"
• Popular in the US
• Requires stable, level substrate