Hardwood Floors August/September 2018

Want to show your customers that wood floors are an environmentally friendly flooring option that is both renewable and sustainable? e NWFA Education & Research Foundation Life Cycle Analyses for Solid Hardwood Flooring and for Engineered Hardwood Flooring conducted by the University of Wisconsin prove it. Visit nwfa.org/life-cycle- analysis.aspx to learn more.

All photos courtesy of Anita Howard.

and sustainable? e NWFA Education & Research Foundation Life Cycle Analyses for Solid Hardwood Flooring and for Engineered Hardwood Flooring conducted by the University of Wisconsin prove it. e studies analyze the environmental impact of several ooring alternatives for harmful air emissions, water consumption, total primary energy consumption and product life expectancy.  Visit nwfa.org/life-cycle-analysis.aspx to learn more.

Rick Bergman conducts green building research on the holistic environmental impacts of wood products and novel bioenergy systems using life cycle assessment (LCA). Along with conducting LCAs for developing environmental product declarations (i.e., science-based eco- labels) for wood products and environmental building declarations for wood buildings, Rick is on committees for green building standards and codes. He can be reached at rbergman@fs.fed.us.

Steve Hubbard is lead consultant for Hubbard Forest Solutions LLC where he conducts life cycle assessment research on forest products and investigates manufacturing process improvement strategies for North American wood products producers. He can be reached at shubbard@ uwalumni.com.

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