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Ambient is a supplier of high-quality bamboo flooring.
Founded in 2005, Ambient's flooring has been featured on HGTV and can be found in stores like Lululemon Athletica and Underarmour. Ambient has also been featured as one of Inc. 5000's fastest growing companies.
Environmental Benefits of Bamboo Floor
Ambient offers four types of flooring that meet LEED standards: classic, strand-woven, click-lock HDF, and hand scraped strand.
All four types of Ambient bamboo floor are rapidly renewable, because they are made of A-grade Moso bamboo, which can be harvested in 5-7 years. All four types of flooring can also be specified as certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), meaning it is sustainably harvested.
Their flooring also has very low levels of formaldehyde, ranging from 0.01 to 0.03 ppm. This means that they have minimal effects on indoor air quality. Also, zero-formaldehyde flooring is available by special order.
Ambient’s bamboo flooring contributes to LEED in the Materials and Resources (MR) and Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) credit categories of the LEED for New Construction rating system.
MR Credit 6: Rapidly Renewable Materials (1 point)
This credit requires that 2.5% of the value of all building materials is “rapidly renewable”. Since bamboo is a rapidly renewable material, all of Ambient’s flooring meets this requirement.
MR Credit 7: Certified Wood (1 point)
This credit requires that 50% (based on cost) of wood-based materials are certified by the FSC. Ambient’s FSC-certified flooring can be specially ordered.
IEQ Credit 4.4: Low-Emitting Materials – Composite Wood and Agrifiber Products (1 point)
This credit requires that composite wood and agrifiber products do not contain urea-formaldehyde resins. The Strand Woven and Hand Scraped Strand varieties can be specially ordered to meet this requirement.
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Fri, 03/30/2012 - 01:52 — AnonymousBamboo is a good wood to use for floors...because of the fact the it takes only 5 to 7 years to replace a bamboo plant or tree.
LEED is a green building
Thu, 04/05/2012 - 04:56 — AnonymousLEED is a green building rating system and the term stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design.
The solar industry may be the fastest avukat growing industry in the U.S., but because of the rapid adoption of the LEED rating system, the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) is considered the fastest growing non-profit in the world.
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