Green

EdgeBuilder Wall panels - The GREEN way to build

Green building is the practice of increasing the efficiency with which buildings use resources - energy, water, and materials - while reducing building impacts on .... The environment during the building's lifecycle...(Source:Wickopedia)

EdgeBuilder wall panels are an extremely eco-friendly or "Green" method of construction that utilizes wood, the ONLY major building material that is a 100% natural renewable resource. Essentially, wood is the only building material that uses the sun's energy to renew itself in a continuous sustainable cycle! Specifically, using Edgbuilder wall panels will help the environment in the following ways.

EdgeBuilder pre-manufactured wall panels will minimize waste as compared to conventional stick frame construction.
• We do not discard lumber over 6 inches in length
• We preserve over 30% of sheathing applied to exterior walls
• We utilize "waste" wood and it is recycled for shipping and storage needs
• Wood that is dumpstered is utilized by outside companies

EdgeBuilder wall panels will minimize community impact of your jobsite
• Less noise on site (nail guns, saws, drills) this work is done in our manufacturing facility.
• Less heavy equipment traffic delivering endless loads of stick lumber
• Less overall crew time on site
• Less clutter/neater jobsite

In particular, eco-friendly aspects of wood construction versus steel and concrete include the following:

Steel and Concrete designs:
*Release 24% and 47% more air pollution than wood
*Product 8% and 23% more solid wastes than wood
*Use 11% and 81% more resources than wood
*Require 26% and 57% more energy than wood
*Emit 34% and 81% more greenhouse gasses than wood
*Discharge 4 and 3.5 times more water pollution than wood
(Source:Canadian Wood Council cwc.ca)

For more information about the sustainability and the earth friendly use of lumber please check out the following links.

http://www.cwc.ca/DesignWithWood/Sustainability/?Language=EN

http://www.cwc.ca/NR/rdonlyres/4749BE13-2089-4A49-87C8-55E40257EDD7/0/Canadian_Wood.pdf

Using Wood to fight climate change!

http://www.cwc.ca/NR/rdonlyres/1AB894B2-31D9-4F85-A7A9-F3BFD12D14C0/0/Factsheet4.pdf

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Architects please check out the following article about the use of wood in mid-rise buildings!

http://www.cwc.ca/NR/rdonlyres/5A044E73-C28D-486D-8625-42C98548C039/0/MidRisereportbyUrbanArtsl.pdf