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Home Renovation: David Gottfried on Green Framing (Video)

When it comes to green building, proper framing requires careful consideration. David Gottfried taps Raul Ruiz of Canyon Construction.

Wed Nov 19 09:45:00 EST 2008

This is part of a series of video blog posts about green architecture and construction leading up to Greenbuild, the U.S. Green Building Council's annual conference. Planet Green is a Silver sponsor of this year's event, which will be held in Boston November 19-21.

For the framing, we used FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) wood throughout the house, and it's marked as such so we know it comes from forests that use highly sustainable practices. We also used FSC plywood in the attic for storage areas up above.

Instead of using paper shimming as is normally done, we used FSC wood recycled from a demo that we did, and we used some that same wood to frame in the members, because they were a different size than the normal wood we get these days. Both worked great, and it saves us from having to throw out perfectly good wood.

We've been doing green building for a period of time Canyon Construction, and we were thrilled to be able to help David with his house and be involved in this project. Green building is a great thing!

David Gottfried started Regenerative Ventures and its consulting arm, WorldBuild in 1995, after founding the U.S. Green Building Council in 1993. He is the author of Greed to Green, and is internationally acknowledged as one of the foremost founders of the global green building movement.

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