As a natural product, Real Stone Veneers are inherently earth-friendly. Natural stone currently offers many attractive, environmentally friendly attributes, including an enduring life-cycle, durability, ease of care and maintenance, recyclability, and quarry and manufacturing best practices.
Using natural stone shows that you take responsibility to care for the earth by actively striving to preserve, restore or improve the natural environment. The article below details the reasons why stone is an environmentally friendly choice.
Why Build Green?
Constructing buildings in an environmentally-considerate way requires careful thought and planning. However, the payback from a green building far outweighs this price. Conventional building practices consume large quantities of energy and water, while generating excessive air emissions and waste streams; these impacts are also caused by product manufacturing. Moreover, indoor air quality can be impaired when unhealthy building materials are employed.
Implementing green building techniques reduces impacts on the environment and human health during both construction and operation of a structure, as well as during production of building materials.
Life-cycle datasets
An accurate assessment of the environmental profile of stone products and impacts over the entire life cycle of the stone.
Real Stone Veneers of TN™ strives to meet or exceed all best practices in quarrying, harvesting and producing stone products as detailed below.
Best Practice: Water Consumption, Treatment, and Reuse
Best Practice: Site Maintenance and Quarry Closure
Best Practice: Solid Waste Management