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Sustainable Industries magazine has tallied its fourth annual top 10 products for green building for this year. A panel of experts selected the ten best products based on environmental factors, innovation, design, marketability, value and compatibility with the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating system.
Sustainable Industries magazine serves sustainable business and thought leaders on the West Coast. The expert panel announced the winners June 24:
- Hallowell International’s Acadia Combined Heating and Cooling System, which maintains extremely high efficiency regardless of freezing temperatures outside and or high heating oil prices.
- ec-H20, an environmentally-friendly hand-held spray device that transforms water into a powerful cleaner made by Tennant Co. The device doesn’t use chemicals but uses tap water to clean almost any surface and reduces water usage.
- InSpire Wall made by ATAS International, a product for roofing, walls, ceilings and panels that transfers heat from the sun to indoor air, helping to cut energy use. The InSpire wall panel also helps cooling in the summer by venting solar heat through holes and preventing heat from reaching a building’s main wall.
- kama Energy Efficient Building Systems Inc.’s kama EEBS Structural Systems, prefabricated building sections that integrate metal stud framing with polystyrene insulation in a way that eliminates thermal bridging and creates an energy-efficient building envelope.
- PlybooPure Bamboo Plywood made by Smith & Fong Co., architectural-grade bamboo plywood and flooring.
- RainTube by GLI Systems Inc., a rain gutter filter made of 100 percent post-consumer high-density polyethylene. This product received more Top 10 nominations than any other product for 2009, Sustainable Industries said.
- Separett Villa by Separett is a urine-diverting composting toilet that does not use water or require plumbing and allows waste to be composted.
- Serious Windows manufactured by Serious Materials were selected because their level of efficiency means a heating system is not necessary or only costs half as much to run per month.
- Solatube International’s Solatube Daylighting Systems, a product that captures sunlight and directs it through a tube to provide natural indoor light.
- Your Old Light Fixture by Eleek, a service, rather than a product, for restoring light fixtures with updated wiring to be compatible with energy-efficient electricity. The magazine noted that Eleek is the only business to make the Top 10 Green Building Products list all four years.
