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GreenGlass maximizes your protection from the environment while minimizing your impact on the environment. Offering the high performance of a fiberglass-faced gypsum board that’s also as green as it gets, GreenGlass offers the most benefits in your project’s construction process and contributes the most value toward its environmental certification.

GreenGlass is SCS certified in accordance with ISO 14021 standards to contain a minimum of 90 percent recycled gypsum content on a dry-weight basis.

• SCS Certificate for Temple-Inland GreenGlass Products

LEED-NC

The use of GreenGlass can contribute greatly toward LEED credits in these two LEED certification categories:

MR credit 4 - Recycled Content - awards 1 or 2 points for using products with recycled content that constitute at least 10% or 20%, based on cost, of the total value of project materials. Click here for Sustainable Materials Data.

MR credit 5 - Local/Regional Materials - awards 1 or 2 points for using materials on a project that are extracted and manufactured within 500 miles that constitute at least 10% or 20%, based on cost, of the total value of project materials. Click to view a mileage reference map.

NAHB Green Building Standards

The use of GreenGlass can also contribute greatly toward the N.A.H.B. Green Building Standard credits in the following certification category:

NAHB 604.1(2) – Pre-Consumer Recycled Content – specifies the use of recycled content products in major areas such as walls, floors, insulation and roofing. Click here for Sustainable Materials Data.

2009 LEED For Schools

Projects using GreenGlass products are eligible for a 2009 LEED for Schools contribution in the following category:

IEQ credit 4.6 - Ceiling and Wall Systems – awards 1 point if all gypsum board meets the testing and product requirements of the California Department of Health Services Standard Practice for the Testing of Volatile Organic Emissions. For more about CHPS conformance information.

               

For more information about all of Temple-Inland's third-party certifiers, click on About the Certifiers.

Temple-Inland is a proud member of the U.S. Green Building Council.
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