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CSI Section 09 62 23: Bamboo Flooring
Most bamboo for flooring comes from the Hunan province of China. It's not a food source for pandas, which generally inhabit higher-elevation forests. Despite the long-distance transport of the product to the United States, the durability, hardness, and short regeneration time of bamboo provide justification for using it for flooring instead of conventionally harvested wood. Bamboo is typically processed without preservatives or with benign boric acid, but more toxic preservatives are occasionally used when unprocessed poles are exported. Most bamboo flooring is glued together with urea-formaldehyde binders, which is the primary negative aspect.As the popularity and availability of bamboo increases, so does the need for uniform and credible certification of green attributes. Ideally there would be verification of: (1) low ambient VOC emissions using chamber testing (certified to meet Floorscore or Greenguard), (2) limited use of pesticides and preservatives, (3) growing practices (certified to FSC standards), and (4) manufacturing conditions. GreenSpec listings will be updated to reflect such information as it becomes available.
Products listed here are made with binders and adhesives that have ultra-low formaldehyde concentrations (<=0.02 ppm), or have formaldehyde emissions of 0.05ppm or lower using the ASTM E-1333 test for Europe's E1 standard or another roughly equivalent standard (because testing protocols are different, standards are not truly comparable). FSC certification of bamboo will likely become a requirement for GreenSpec listing in the future.
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Bamboo Flooring
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: Simon Velez and Bamboo Architecture
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