Rapidly Renewable Materials

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A point is earned if a certain fraction of materials are renewable from natural sources within a ten-year cycle.

This is an unofficial summary for general information only.

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By CSI Division, Section

• 01: General Requirements (1 Sections, 2 Products)
• 03: Concrete (2 Sections, 10 Products)
• 04: Masonry (1 Sections, 3 Products)
• 06: Wood, Plastics, and Composites (11 Sections, 19 Products)
• 07: Thermal and Moisture Protection (9 Sections, 17 Products)
• 08: Openings (1 Sections, 4 Products)
• 09: Finishes (21 Sections, 83 Products)
• 10: Specialties (4 Sections, 5 Products)
• 12: Furnishings (16 Sections, 39 Products)
• 14: Conveying Equipment (1 Sections, 4 Products)
• 23: Heating, Ventilating, and Air-Conditioning (HVAC) (1 Sections, 1 Products)
• 31: Earthwork (1 Sections, 6 Products)
• 32: Exterior Improvements (1 Sections, 1 Products)

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	FSC-Certified Bamboo Eligible for Certified Wood LEED Credit EBN: Newsbrief - July 2009		Icynene Introduces Spray Foam with Rapidly Renewable Content EBN: Product News - February 2009
	Knauf Introduces Ecose Biobased Binder EBN: Product Review - January 2009		No-Compromise Green Fabrics from O Ecotextiles EBN: Product Review - December 2008
	Bamboo Flooring: Understanding the Options BuildingGreen.com: Product News - September 2008		Masonite Offers Straw-Core Door With No Added Urea-Formaldehyde EBN: Product Review - September 2008

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Alberici Corporate Headquarters (110,000 sq. feet) (10,000 sq. meters) Commercial office Caribou Weather Forecast Office (WFO) (8,400 sq. feet) (780 sq. meters) Commercial office CCI Center (12,000 sq. feet) (1,100 sq. meters) Commercial office Center for Neighborhood Technology (15,000 sq. feet) (1,400 sq. meters) Commercial office Chartwell (21,000 sq. feet) (2,000 sq. meters) K-12 education	Alberici Corporate Headquarters This project entails the adaptive reuse of an existing manufacturing plant into a corporate headquar...
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Videos
	Building With Awareness: The Construction of a Hybrid Home Syncronos Design, Inc., publisher (2005)
Periodicals
	The Last Straw: The Grassroots Journal of Straw-Bale and Natural Building The Green Prairie Foundation for Sustainability, publisher
Books
	Design of Straw Bale Buildings: The State of the Art by Bruce King (2006)		Building Green: A complete how-to guide to alternative building methods; earth, plaster, straw bale, cordwood, cob, living roofs by Clarke Snell et al. (2005)
	EcoNest: Creating Sustainable Sanctuaries of Clay, Straw, and Timber by Paula Baker-Laporte et al. (2005)		Green Dollhouse: Creating a Doll's Eye View of a Healthier World Fred McLennan et al., editor (2005)

PRODUCTS Timber Pro Natural Wood Stains ARTICLES FSC-Certified Bamboo Eligible for Certified Wood LEED Credit EBN: Newsbrief - July 2009 More articles CASE STUDIES Alberici Corporate Headquarters Overland, MO More case studies BIBLIOGRAPHY Building With Awareness : The Construction of a Hybrid Home Syncronos Design, Inc., publisher (2005) More bibliography items

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