The Tile Council of North America Blog

AUGUST 26, 2016

With this announcement, building design professionals have even more reason to “think tile” and “think North American” when building green. In addition to LEED, EPDs can be used to satisfy requirements in Green Globes, IgCC, ASHRAE 189.1 and ICC 700. The analysis was performed by Thinkstep, Inc., About TCNA.

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Diary of a Tile Addict

JANUARY 31, 2020

Product quality, design, innovation, Italian origin, and sustainability are all key components of the Italian ceramic tile industry’s success. Ceramic products can be certified as complying with the main international green building assessment protocols (LEED, BREEAM, etc.). The EPD can be downloaded here. Aix by Atlas Concorde.

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Life of an Architect

FEBRUARY 2, 2014

Our owner is crazy awesome in that he really cares about the design process and keeps asking questions that pushes the design and invariably causes changes. This rendered site plan still shows the vegetative roof – something that we were pursuing since this will be a LEED for Homes certified project. Thanks and great blog!

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