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TCNA collaboration provides material transparency

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Tile Council of North America (TCNA), the trade association representing producers of ceramic tile, tile installation materials and related products in North America, has entered into what it calls a transformative collaboration to provide industry-wide material ingredient transparency. Anderson, S.C.—Tile Green Building Council.

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Coverings to host quarterly Connected event

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These documents should be used by anyone in the tile community from properly specifying a tile installation, to accurately bidding a job, to properly installing tile. Bill Griese, LEED AP, director, standards development & sustainability initiatives, Tile Council of North America (TCNA).

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LEED help from LATICRETE® SUPERCAP®

CTDA's Tiledealer Blog

LATICRETE® SUPERCAP®, LLC, manufacturer of the revolutionary self-leveling SUPERCAP® System, launches a new LEED Project Certification Assistant, making the specification of “The Next Generation Slab™” for projects quick and easy. Innovations Product Information' To utilize this online tool, visit www.laticretesupercap.com. “We

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Florida Tile Announces "Green Products"

H.Winter Showroom Blog

In recent months, we have received a number of requests from customers asking about our products containing recycled content. of the current LEED standard. Prevention of Pollution Recycling is at the heart of our prevention efforts, we recycle dust, scrap, and process water back into our products.

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RFCI expands online curriculum

Floor Covering News

“The professional will learn how to identify product eco-labels and declarations that are included within the resilient flooring product category,” stated Jane Rohde, technical consultant for RFCI. Finding products and creating a project on ecomedes material database that supports documentation required for LEED v4.1

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KHouse Modern Progress Update | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

This rendered site plan still shows the vegetative roof – something that we were pursuing since this will be a LEED for Homes certified project. In the end, we removed this feature because the expense didn’t warrant its inclusion into the final product. This is the latest and greatest site plan.

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Architects and the AIA | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

newyowker Maybe LEED should start including in their systems that projects not only need local materials etc, but also local architects Xiaosheng Wu is that possible for an non-American to be a member of AIA? When they do provide a useful service (AIA documents for example), they charge a lot to non-members (which they should!),

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