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Tile for Floors and Walls: GIO’s Tips on Product Selection

Giotile

Do you have any green/LEED and/or LCA requirements for the project? With the dazzling array of different tile products available, knowing the answers to these questions will help narrow your choices down to the tiles and stone products appropriate to your project. Is slip resistance imperative?

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Exploring the sustainability of ceramic surfaces

Diary of a Tile Addict

Product quality, design, innovation, Italian origin, and sustainability are all key components of the Italian ceramic tile industry’s success. The intrinsic characteristics of ceramic products make them preferable to other materials in terms of their limited impacts over their life cycle. of Italian ceramic tile production.

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Starnet announces winners of 2020 Design Awards

Floor Covering News

The most prestigious award, the 2020 Grand Prize, was presented to Starnet member Cornerstone Commercial Flooring for its work on Park Elementary School in East Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Chi-Thien (CT) Nguyen, LEED GA, associate AIA, associate, Elkus Manfredi Architects. Grand Prize Winner: Gold in Education.

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Ceramic Collaborations

Diary of a Tile Addict

RIBA North is hosting Moulding Futures: Collaborative Explorations in Ceramics for Architecture symposium on Friday 8th December, a one-day event created by ECAlab and supported by Tile of Spain, the University of Liverpool and Leeds Beckett University. Eagle Place (detail). ade and a multi-coloured cornice. © Paul Carstairs-Arup.

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Ceramic tile for safe and sustainable homes

Diary of a Tile Addict

Manufactured from clay and other naturally-occurring minerals, ceramic tile does not contain the chemicals present in other floor coverings that are receiving increased attention for their possible adverse health effects, such as formaldehyde, VOCs (volatile organic compounds) or PVC (polyvinyl chloride). Cordoba by Metropolitan.

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Installing to Meet Moisture and Chemical Resistance Requirements

CTDA's Tiledealer Blog

Its installers turned to TEC® products to aid with fast-paced tile installation in a variety of challenging environments. The 110,000 square-foot LEED®-Certified YMCA is the flagship YMCA for the city and is expected to serve 30,000 people annually in its state-of-the-art exercise facilities. tecspecialty.com.

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Time2Design: Outdoor Living | My GenX Design Studios Presentation

Time2Design

Outdoor Living | My GenX Design Studios Presentation. Here is my GenX Outdoor Living Space designed and presented at KBIS2013 in New Orleans. If you would like to hear / see my presentation powered by QueX and Teliris technology recording you can click here (be sure to adjust volume). products for sale. Newer Post.

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