MATERIAL

SELECTION
CONSIDERATIONS
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Selecting Sustainable Strategies / Systems: Explore possible ideas and test for compatibility with:

Project Mission Climate Site Program/Function Budget Code restrictions Aesthetic requirements Maintenance expectations Other pre-determined strategies or aspects of the project

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Selecting Materials: Explore possible ideas and test for compatibility with:

Project Mission Climate Site Program/Function Budget Code restrictions Aesthetic requirements Maintenance expectations Other pre-determined strategies or aspects of the project

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Environmental Material Criteria

Recycled Rapidly Renewable Salvaged Locally Manufactured

Locally Harvested
No Impact to Habitats Recyclable /Biodegradable Low Embodied Energy

Non Toxic

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Environmental Material Criteria

Recycled Rapidly Renewable Salvaged Locally Manufactured

Locally Harvested
No Impact to Habitats Recyclable /Biodegradable Low Embodied Energy

Non Toxic

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Opportunities:
Steel Concrete Sheathing Gypsum Board Metals Trex Ceramic Tile Carpet Homosote Fabrics Ceiling Tile Lab Top Paving Millwork
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Recycled

Opportunities Cork Bamboo Lyptus Palm Poplar Wheatboard Sunflower Seed Hull Board Wool Carpeting Cotton Insulation Linoleum

Rapidly Renewable

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Local Resources
500 mile radius

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Aluminum and Aluminum Products Alcoa (Goose Creek) JW Aluminum Company (N. Charleston) The Loxscreen Company (West Columbia) door and door products Metal Fabrications Electrolux Construction Products (Columbia) Socar Inc. (Florence) fabricated structural steel Vulcraft (Florence) fabricated structural steel Steel Works and Blast Furnaces JM Steel Corp. (Huger) Nucor Steel (Darlington) SMI Steel (Cayce) Talley Metals Technology (Hartsville) Chatham Steel Corp. (Columbia) SMI Rebar of South Carolina (Columbia) rebar manufacturing Concrete Giant Cement Co. (Summerville) North America (Harleyville) Hardaway Conc. Co. (Columbia)

Concrete Products APAC (Darlington) Metromont (Greenville) Tindall Corporation (Spartanburg) Winyah Concrete & Block Company (Pawleys Island) Chapman Concrete Products Inc. (Spartanburg) Hardaway Concrete Co. (Columbia) Southeastern Concrete Products (Columbia)

Brick Boral Bricks (Van Wyck) Brick Carolina Ceramics (Columbia) Hanson Brick & Building Products (Columbia) Palmetto Brick (Cheraw) Richtex Southern Brick (Ninety Six) Lumber and Building Materials Builders First Source (Conway)

Local Resources

Lumber and Wood Products Stainless Steel C.M Tucker Lumber Companies American Stainless & Alloy Products (Pageland) (Darlington) Collums Lumber Products (Allendale) Construction Sand and Gravel Council Lumber Co. (Orangeburg) Thomas Sand Company (Greenville) Dixie Products (Darlington) Vulcan Materials Company (Columbia) Georgia Pacific (Columbia) Norbord South Carolina Inc. Adhesives & Sealants (Kinards) Siroflex Inc. (Greenville) Diamond Hill Plywood Company Inc. (Darlington) HVAC Equipment Trane (Columbia) Furniture Duracase (Ridgeland) and Paint recycling program Sherwin Williams (Columbia) Skylights Waterproofing Materials Velux (Greenwood) Hydro-Stop Inc. (N. Charleston)

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Environmental Material Criteria

Recycled Rapidly Renewable Salvaged Locally Manufactured

Locally Harvested
No Impact to Habitats Recyclable /Biodegradable Low Embodied Energy

Non Toxic

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Material Life-Cycle Analysis

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Case Study - CBF

MISSION
The Chesapeake Bay Foundation

Excess Nutrients in Waterways Sedimentation Point Source Toxins

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Site
Increase in urbanized land relative to population growth: 2.65 times the rate of population growth

Effluent flow from sewage treatment plants into area waterways contributes approx.300 million pounds of nitrogen pollution in the Bay each year.

Water

MISSION
Nutrient Pollution
Sources Non-point Source Pollution Water Treatment Plants Air Pollution Loss of Wetlands

Energy

Each year, roughly 97.5 million pounds-comes from air deposition. Most of this comes from

Materials & Resources

2000 Current Trends

Developed
Farm Forest & Wetland Other

196,200
490,200 364,653

377,809
372,310 313,385

93%
-24% -14%

17,392

4,948

-71%

Wetlands lost in the lower 48 states between the late 1700s

power plant smoke stacks & vehicle tailpipes.

and the mid-1980s: More than half (53%)

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Site Conservation and Restoration

Ecosystem restoration Stormwater reduction Minimized site disturbance

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Conservation - Harnessing Natural Resources Passive And Active Solar Design Mixed-mode Natural Ventilation

Geothermal Heating And Cooling

Day Lighting
Orientation Sun Control Natural Daylight Energy Efficient Systems Renewable Energy

Rainwater Collection

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Parallel Strand Lumber

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Structurally Insulated Panels

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Galvalume

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Interior Finishes

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Interior Finishes
Cork: Rapidly renewable Durable Soft and Comfortable Quiet Maintained with non-toxic chemicals Beautiful

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Case Study - Sandhill

Project Mission & Site

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Passive Cooling

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Site Palette

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