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Daunting as the coastal climate can be, the home-building industry has the... More
By Stephani L. Miller. BuildingGreen, publisher of the GreenSpec Product Directory and of Environmental Building News, recently announced its choices for the Top 10 new green building products of 2003. The second annual award recognizes the most exciting products added to the Directory during the past year, although some products may have been on the market longer, says GreenSpec co-editor Alex Wilson. More
BuildingGreen of Battleboro, Vt., has released the second edition of its GreenSpecDirectory, a guide to more than 1,500 environmentally friendly building products. "Our tactic was to identify quantifiable, easily verifiable standards where those could be defined," executive editor Alex Wilson says, "then base other decisions about what should be in-cluded on the collective wisdom of our staff."Call (800) 861-0954 or visit www.greenspec.com for more information. More
Q: We typically build energy-efficient houses with 1-inch foil-faced polyisocyanurate foam on the interior of our walls. But more than one customer has questioned us about the potential health effects of the foam. Their concerns seem to stem from the outgasing of chemicals, more than the potential for the foam to burn. Are such concerns founded? What possible chemical hazards are present, and is there any evidence that these chemicals outgas at any substantial levels? More
