[Greenbuilding] Green Building and Plastic Materials

[Catherine Holliss]

Nitya --

There are two companies you might want to contact to present  
information on their products - both produce plastic materials that I  
use as an interior designer: eco resin panels from 3-form and Rohm  
Degussa's Deglas Impact Multi-skinned Acrylic Profile Sheet from  
Deglas Americas.

3-form: http://www.3-form.com
This is an eco-resin that uses post-consumer recycled content to  
create panels that are gorgeous, It's not perfectly green but they  
have implemented green factory practices and different percentages of  
recycled content to create beautiful panels, often with natural  
materials laminated into them. Some of their panels also have the  
added benefit of social responsibility in that they create jobs for  
challenged groups (one panel has woven beads that are created by  
women in Africa whose lives have been impacted by AIDS.)

http://www.deglasamericas.com
Their Deglas Impact quadruple-skinned acrylic sheet has the  
insulating equivalent of four panes of glass for about half the cost  
(in some cases less.) This is a brilliant product for creating  
daylighting in a space while conserving privacy. We have used it  
often in our practice (the sheets come off the truck 20' high and 4'  
wide) to create spaces that have the milky, diffuse soft light of a  
shoji-screen. It's green in that spaces with large expanses of  
translucent material obviously need no electric light during daylight  
hours - and the insulating quality of the material allows more  
expanses of translucence...

Good luck with your conference!
Catherine Holliss
Sander Architects


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Catherine Holliss
Director of Interior Design

SANDER ARCHITECTS
2524 Lincoln Blvd
Venice, CA 90291


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