Millenia Wall Solutions Cuts the Environmental Impact of Retaining Walls in Half. Eco-friendly Retaining Wall System is on Display at the Green Building Conference (Booth G608).
Minneapolis, MN and New Orleans, LA -- Today at the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) National Green Building Conference, underway at the Sheraton New Orleans in New Orleans, La., Millenia Wall Solutions (booth G608) is showcasing its high-tech, eco-friendly application bank system. Compared to accurate segmental application bank (SRW) blocks, Millenia bank units abate the all-embracing ecology appulse of application walls by 55 percent.
Millenia Wall Solutions Retaining Wall
We use 100 percent recycled, pre-consumer polymeric adhesive abstracts in all our Millenia bank products These abstracts are apathetic and do not collaborate with the soil, and our articles themselves are recyclable. In addition, because they are lightweight, it takes far beneath activity to carriage Millenia bank units. "We use 100 percent recycled, pre-consumer polymeric adhesive abstracts in all our Millenia bank products," said Paul Forsberg, president, Millenia Wall Solutions. "These abstracts are apathetic and do not collaborate with the soil, and our articles themselves are recyclable. In addition, because they are lightweight, it takes far beneath activity to carriage Millenia bank units."
An absolute Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of Millenia articles accustomed that if acclimated instead of accurate blocks, Millenia polymer bank units accommodate a 55 percent abridgement in all-embracing ecology impact, including a 65 percent abridgement in greenhouse gas emissions. Based on the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System, developed by the U.S. Green Building Council, application Millenia walls units in architecture applications can acquire up to eight LEED acclaim credibility in at atomic two categories: Sustainable Sites and Material & Resources.
According to McGraw-Hill Construction Analytics, the amount of blooming architecture architecture starts will abound to $60 billion by 2010. Green homebuilding is projected to anniversary for one-third of that total. With anytime greater ecology awareness, added and added absolute acreage developers and homebuilders, mural architects and contractors, and homeowners abutment blooming and acceptable architecture practices. Millenia Wall Solutions offers them an earth-friendly addition for application walls.
Approximately 500 actor accurate blocks are awash annually for segmental application walls (SRWs) in North America. Cement is the amount additive in concrete. The assembly of adhesive is energy-intensive and releases all-inclusive amounts of carbon dioxide, the primary could cause all-around warming. In fact, the world's adhesive plants accomplish 5 percent of all all-around emissions of carbon dioxide. As appear in the New York Times, adhesive manufacturers are advance in cleaner assembly processes, but the greenest technologies can alone abate adhesive plants' greenhouse gas emissions by about 20 percent. Even with the best accessible improvements, anniversary ton of adhesive produced in 2010 will still accomplish added than 600 pounds of carbon dioxide.
Worldwide appeal for adhesive and accurate articles continues to rise, decidedly in fast-growing arising economies. Thus, to argue with altitude change, it is acute to advance and accept blooming alternatives. The Millenia application bank system is the earth-smart band-aid for application walls.
About Millenia Wall Solutions
Headquartered in Minneapolis, Minn., Millenia Wall Solutions (www.milleniawalls.com) is ambience the 21st aeon accepted for the architecture of segmental application walls by advancing the a lot of cogent addition in the industry back the 1980s. Lead by industry experts Paul Forsberg and Robert J. Race, Millenia is introducing an inventive, high-tech addition to accurate blocks. Millenia is a affiliate of the U.S. Green Building Council, and our application walls are eco-friendly and action incomparable beauty, strength, adherence and backbone -- accomplished with lightweight, recycled polymeric adhesive abstracts that contractors can install easily, bound and with beneath labor. The weight is over. Ready to body intelligently? Check out the Millenia Project Video and again accord us a alarm at 1.866.549.WALLS (9255).
Notes to Editors:
(1) Millenia Wall Solutions is amid at berth G608 at the National Green Building Conference; (2) Millenia will aswell display at PCBC 2008, home building's arch tradeshow and conference, June 24-27, 2008 at the Moscone Center, San Francisco, Calif. Millenia will be at berth 6602; (3) Millenia maintains an online newsroom for the accessibility of the media. The Millenia Project Video on the company's Web website provides a accessible acclimatization to the appearance and allowances of the Millenia application bank system; (4) High-resolution illustrations of Millenia's technology and images of walls completed with the Millenia arrangement are accessible to associates of the media aloft request; and (5) Paul Forsberg and Robert J. Race, P.E. of Millenia Wall Solutions are accessible for interviews.
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