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BuildingGreen Names 180 Walls from Milliken and Company a 2007 Top-10 Green Building Products

Submitted by: John Warner on Nov 23, 2007 at 8:24 am Tagged with: Environment, green building Source: http://www.buildingonline.com/news/viewnews.pl?id=6596&subcategory=208

11/21/2007

CHICAGO, IL -- BuildingGreen, Inc., publisher of the GreenSpec Directory and Environmental Building News, recently announced the 2007 Top-10 Green Building Products at its annual Conference in Chicago.

"Our selections of the Top-10 Green Building Products represent a wide range of product types in many different application areas," noted GreenSpec coeditor and BuildingGreen president Alex Wilson. Four of BuildingGreen’s winning products this year save energy. Two products save water. Three products are green in part because they are made from recycled or recovered material; two because they avoid hazardous manufacturing or disposal of materials, and one aids in the siting of solar energy systems.

BuildingGreen’s Top-10 product selections, as in previous years, are drawn from new additions to the company’s GreenSpec product directory. More than 200 product listings have been added to the GreenSpec database during the past year. The GreenSpec database the company maintains now includes more than 2,000 product listings.

A big driver in the development of green products continues to be the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED Rating System (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design), which awards points for the use of certain product types or for the energy or water savings that green products can achieve.

This year's winners are:
--Collins Pine FreeForm from The Collins Companies
--Alpen Fiberglass Windows from Alpen Energy Group
--180 Walls from Milliken & Company
--Bosch Evolution 800 Series SHE98M Dishwasher
--Greenplay Children’s Furniture from Skyline Design
--Cube3 Ultra Urinal from Caroma
--LifeGuard Low Smoke Zero Halogen Cable from Houston Wire & Cable Company
--Wireless Controls from EnOcean
--SunEye from Solmetric Corporation
--LED Downlight from LED Lighting Fixtures, Inc.