Maintaining a healthy environment through better construction has become an important goal and challenge for our industry. The idea of Building Green employs the creation of minimal impact designs through increased efficiency of building operations, and strives to create a healthier internal environment for building occupants.  Alliance TruTrus has joined in this effort by becoming both FSC and SFI certified.  We are committed to doing our part in maintaining a healthy environment.

• Wood is a great green building material. It is a renewable building material, energy efficient and a natural resource created from our earth's soil, sun and water.
• Wood is also the best resource to use in homes and light framing commercial/industrial applications that are built to shelter families and businesses around the world.
• At Alliance TruTrus, we take wood seriously and we love what we do. We prove this day in and day out by providing, upon request, environmentaly-friendly wood products from FSC and SFI certified lumber. These products include finger joint studs, oriented strand board, laminated veneer lumber, wood "I" Beams, manufactured trusses, and glued laminated beams.

Acres Certified in North America (In millions of acres)

Canadian Standards Association	179.3
Sustainable Forestry Initiative	131.6
Forest Stewardship Council	56.8
American Tree Farm Systems	24.4

*Source: Canadian Sustainable Forestry Certification Coalition, www.certificationcanada.org

Growing interest in buildings that are better for the environment, healthier for occupants and more cost-efficient to operate is helping to drive the popularity of green building rating systems such as LEED and Green Globes.

Governments, in particular, see it as their role to lead by example, and legislation requiring the use of these systems is becoming increasingly common. At the same time, building science experts continue to find new and better ways to build “green” and the systems themselves are evolving.

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