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BGI’s Top-Ten Green Products

BuildingGreen, Inc. and the editors of Environmental Building News announced at the USGBC conference in Austin our pick of the ten best new green building products. The first-ever award recognizes the most exciting products added to the GreenSpec Directory during the past year (though some products may have been on the market longer). This year’s winners, in CSI MasterFormat order, are:

• L.I.F.T. Foundation System from Pin Foundations, Inc. (see EBN Vol. 8, No. 10);

• FSC-Certified Tuff-Strand OSB from the Roy O. Martin Lumber Company (see EBN Vol. 11, No. 6);

• WoodStalk Fiberboard and Underlayment from Dow BioProducts, Inc. (see EBN Vol. 10, No. 11);

• Fiberglass Insulation from the Johns Manville Company (see EBN Vol. 11, No. 3);

• Kalwall® R-20 with Nanogel™ from Kalwall Corporation (see EBN Vol. 11, No. 7);

• Pure Performance Zero-VOC Paint from PPG Architectural Finishes (see EBN Vol. 11, No. 5);

• Decato Office Partition Systems from Preform Manufacturing, Inc. (see review below);

• XLerator Electric Hand Dryer from Excel Dryer, Inc. (see EBN Vol. 11, No. 1);

• McDry Non-Water-Using Urinal from Duravit USA, Inc. (not yet reviewed in EBN);

• WatterSaver Heat Pump Water Heater from ECR International, Inc. (see EBN Vol. 11, No. 10).

For more details on these products, visit GreenSpec online or check out the recently released third print edition of the GreenSpec Directory. Our press release about the product awards is posted online at www.buildinggreen.com/go/top-ten.html.

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