www.greenbuildermag.com 06.2012
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Eco Blue Shield
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VERY NOW AND THEN a company comes along that has social accountability as its middle name. Eco Building Products is one of them. “As a company, we are involved in humanitarian projects around the world,” explains president and CEO Steve Conboy.
“We’ve built for prisoners no one cares about ... in a village in Haiti … in Tanzania in schools that educate girls … Ghana … Our goal is to be a for-profi t in social accountability around the world. But you have to make profi t to be able to give back.” Make It Right, then, was a perfect fi t for Eco Building Products. The company has donated the equivalent of a couple of houses in lumber, as well as supplied all the lumber for the project at a discounted rate. When Make It Right’s project coordinator, Cesar Rodriguez, approached Conboy for assistance, he responded by off ering the company’s Bluwood product, which is a line of structural framing components treated with a two-part system designed to safeguard homes against the elements. The product is environmentally friendly (it emits virtu-
ally zero VOCs) and resists moisture, mold, wood-rot and wood ingesting insects—including Formosan termites. Non-treated lumber tends to come from new growth
forests—making it more vulnerable to water, mold, fi re and insects. This is because juvenile lumber is more porous, essentially acting like a sponge, absorbing moisture and subsequently producing mold and/or wood rot—which in turn attracts termites. For more information on Eco Building Products line of structural framing components, visit
www.ecob.net.
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