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INTERNATIONAL CODE COUNCIL
Huber Engineered Woods Attributes Verified Sustainable by ICC-ES
Identifying specific attributes of green and sustainable building products continues to get easier for designers, builders and code officials, thanks to the Sustainable Attributes Verification and Evaluation™ (SAVE™) program from ICC Evaluation Service® (ICC-ES®). The leader in ascertaining the code compliance of innovative building products launched SAVE in 2008 to verify the sustainable attributes of construction materials.


The latest product manufacturer to utilize the SAVE program to verify specific sustainable attributes of its building products is Huber Engineered Woods LLC. The company received a Verification of Attributes Report™ (VAR-1012) from ICC-ES for its AdvanTech® flooring and ZIP System® roof and wall sheathing.


“A VAR from the ICC-ES SAVE program provides customers and potential customers with a review of our products’ sustainable attributes from a knowledgeable, trustworthy, and independent source.” says Ken Hix, Director of Codes and Standards for Huber Engineered Woods. “It moves sustainable attributes from being just a list of marketing claims to independently verified facts.”


The SAVE Program addresses a product’s entire production process, beginning with raw material acquisition and progressing through the final manufacturing and packaging. The SAVE evaluation includes inspection of the manufacturer’s production process, and product testing at recognized laboratories, where required by the ICC-ES evaluation guideline. The resulting VAR provides independent, third-party verification of multiple sustainable characteristics of the building products. AdvanTech and ZIP System meet ICC-ES guidelines for:


• Biobased material content


• Regionally extracted, harvested or manufactured materials or products


• Formaldehyde emissions of composite wood and engineers wood product


• Certified wood and certified wood content


“Both ZIP System sheathing and AdvanTech flooring optimize the use of wood because they are made from young, small trees, which are more quickly replaced than older-growth trees like those required for making plywood,” explains Hix. “What’s more, all parts of the log are used in the production of engineered wood, and leftover chips, bark and sawdust are used to help fuel our manufacturing facilities so that nothing goes to waste.”

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