Today, it is well understood a wide variety of environmental concepts need to be considered when evaluating product sustainability. Gone is the need to evaluate single-attribute sustainability claims like recycled content or low VOCs (volatile organic compounds).
Solid black rubber material is over 90% post-consumer waste from old tires and has been used as flooring for many years for athletic facilities. The next step in the product evolution was to add small amounts of color to the mix, but that mostly black material is still widely used today.
In the last several years, there has been a great deal of focus on the environmental impacts of building materials, and resilient flooring has become more widely recognized as a sustainable selection.
NSF International, a global independent public health organization that writes standards, and tests and certifies products for the commercial and consumer goods, health sciences, food and water industries, will sponsor the American National Standards Institute’s (ANSI) World Standards Week (September 30 - October 4, 2013) highlighting the role standards play in the global economy.
The Institute of Inspection, Cleaning and Restoration Certification (IICRC) announced that its Standards Director, Mili Washington, was selected to serve as secretary for the Society for Standards Professionals (SES) Board of Directors.
Mediterranea, a leading manufacturer of porcelain tile in the U.S., has announced that its StonePeak production facility in Crossville, TN, has attained Green Squared Certification from the Tile Council of North America (TCNA).
Leonardo Academy announces a two-part webinar September 18 and 25, 2013 to illustrate the uses of the draft standard, Type III Life-Cycle Impact Profile Declarations for Products, Services and Systems (LEO-SCS-002), currently being developed under the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) process.
TECannounces The LiquiDAM Penetrating Moisture Vapor Barrier is now new and improved, delivering less than .1 permeability of water vapor through the membrane.
The Institute of Inspection, Cleaning and Restoration Certification (IICRC) announces that it is revising the IICRC S520-2008 Standard and Reference Guide for Professional Mold Remediation.
