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Armstrong™
Commercial Flooring has introduced EcoScorecard SM, a time-saving,
Web-based tool for the green building industry that allows users to
quickly search, evaluate and document Armstrong products'
environmental contributions according to key industry rating
systems.
The EcoScorecard software analysis package is probably the
ultimate tool, providing rating contribution analysis and
compliance calculations important to the commercial building and
design community, including: USGBC LEED® Rating Systems (all
balloted rating systems);
Canada Green Building LEED Rating System; GGHC Green Guideline for
Health Care; CHPS Collaborative for High Performance Schools;
LABS21; NAHB Green Home Standard.
EcoScorecard produces the environmental documentation necessary for
submission in each rating system, and provides a project area for
each user to store information for reference or sharing. Users can
select products by product characteristics, environmental rating
system or simply search Armstrong's entire product offering.
"The biggest advantage of EcoScorecard SM is that it does the
environmental evaluation for the user," explains Kent Clauson,
Armstrong Commercial marketing manager. Through the embedded
algorithm, a user enters the quantity of the product desired, price
per unit and zip code of the project, and the EcoSorecard does the
rest. Within seconds the EcoScorecard produces a results page
showing how the individual product contributes to the key industry
rating system criteria with precise accuracy.
"We're seeing exponential growth in green building as an important
and potent force," says Randy Gablehouse, general manager,
Armstrong Commercial Sales. "Designers and building owners have to
ask not only about the intrinsic characteristics of a product, but
also how it's manufactured and sourced, how it gets to the end
user, what it takes to maintain it, and what happens to it at the
end of its useful life. EcoScorecard is designed to provide fast
and accurate answers to these questions – no green washing, just
the facts."
"EcoScorecard presents Armstrong's entire product portfolio and
performs the calculations without having to check-in with a sales
rep or wait for an email or faxed response," adds Clauson. Users
can create password protected project folders and store search
information for later use.
Armstrong is committed to making sure its activities are in
harmony with the natural world. "This approach to business is
anything but new for us," says Clauson. More than a century ago,
the company ceased discarding post-industrial cork waste and began
recycling it – first into corkboard insulation and soon afterwards
into the green product on which its modern flooring business was
built: linoleum.
"Decision-making tools such EcoScorecard are just a few of the
ways we demonstrate Armstrong's determination to remain the
industry's most trusted resource for environmental information and
green products," says Clauson.
EcoScorecard was developed by Viridity, a company that specializes
in the application and implementation of sustainability to the real
estate, design, and construction industries.
Try EcoScorecard for yourself, now: armstrong-commercial.ecoscorecard.com/
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