Earth Measure Stone Gets Green Honor

COLD SPRING, Minn. – Earth Measure from Coldspring is one of BuildingGreen’s Top-10 products for 2014 by BuildingGreen Inc., publisher of GreenSpec and Environmental Building News (EBN).

The winners were announced Nov. 12 during a live BuildingGreen webcast and will be presented at the U.S. Green Building Council’s Greenbuild convention in Philadelphia on Nov. 21.

Click photo to enlargeNow in its 12th year, the Top-10 awards go to the most-innovative green building products handpicked by BuildingGreen editors from among the hundreds of new and innovative products reviewed in the previous twelve months.

Alex Wilson, founder of BuildingGreen, noted that the 2014 selections highlight how a focus on simplicity and quality enable today’s green products to contribute to sustainable and resilient design goals.

“The products we’re recognizing this year are remarkable in their diversity and innovation,” said Wilson. “We are thrilled to call attention to these products, which are helping to create more sustainable, greener buildings throughout North America.”

Coldspring teamed with green building pioneer Jason F. McLennan, founder and author of the Living Building to launch Earth Measure – a new product line of deep green reclaimed stone.

Earth Measure is comprised of remnant stone and is available in three customizable pattern series that use nature’s geometry as inspiration. To produce Earth Measure, Coldspring takes stone by-products, which are typically ground up as aggregate or discarded as waste, and uses the company’s patented process to produce the stone. The stone line has a very low embodied energy, is manufactured with zero chemicals and can last for decades with little to no maintenance.

Coldspring continues to make steps to provide sustainable materials to the marketplace. They have disclosed all components of its dimensional stone (granite and limestone) on the Declare™ product database and that these products have been designated “Red List Free” on the Declare ingredients label.

The Declare product database is developed by the International Living Future Institute to make it easier for project teams to identify products compliant with the Living Building Challenge™, the built environment’s most rigorous performance standard. The Red List identifies the “worst-in-class” materials, chemicals and elements known to pose serious risks to human health and the greater ecosystem.

Any project seeking certification under the Living Building Challenge must be free of Red List chemicals and materials. Declare supports the Living Building Challenge by providing a transparent materials database that project teams can select from to meet this requirement.

As part of the declaration, the team at Coldspring has added the Declare label to their product offering to assist project teams in determining how best to source local products that support regional economies.

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