Product: Lees Tajo Broadloom

Construction: Tufted
Face Weight: 36 oz/yd
Backing: Primary Bonding Agent: 100% renewable resource
Main Bonding Agent: Unibond hot melt thermoplastic meeting the 20% post-consumer recycled content LEED criteria, Spring 2003 (to be available on all broadloom products)
Gauge: 1/8
Fiber technology: Duracolor® by Lees Patented Permanent Stain and Fade Resistant Technology
Warranties: Lees Lifetime warranties on stains, fading, wear, static, edge ravel, delamination, tuft bind and adhesives

Green Qualities – Take a look at the entire picture. The environmental advantages of the construction of the product and what long-term effect the performance features have on your facility.

• USGBC LEED Materials Credit 4 - Recycled content, using Dupont’s HRC (High Recycled Content) Antron Legacy nylon achieves a 100% post-industrial recycled content in the face. Contains 39% total recycled content of entire product weight (LEED 2.0, Materials Credit 4; possible 1-2 points).
• USGBC LEED Materials Credit 5 – Local and Regional Materials (possible 1 point).
• USGBC IEQ Credit 6 – Rapidly Renewal Materials. Unibond Backing System manufactured with rapidly renewable materials (1 point). ). Contains 17% renewable resource content of entire product weight.
• USGBC IEQ Credit 4 – Adhesives meet VOC limits of Southcoast Air Quality Management District Rule #168 (1 point).
• USGBC IEQ Credit 4 – CRI Green Label Certified (1 point).
• Duracolor® Permanent Stain and Fade Resistant dyeing technology reduces maintenance costs, improves indoor air quality at your facility and extends the appearance life of your carpet. This unique technology offers superior performance in color intensity, color flexibility, soil resistance and stain resistance.
• Recommended Durasafe cleaning agents (ph7) are environmentally safe. Less chemical use in your buildings as 96% of all stains are cleanable with water resulting in improved Indoor Air Quality.
• Lees dyeing technology uses post industrial recycled dye pastes.
• Lees Manufacturing Plant is located in the heart of the Shenandoah Valley an environmentally rated Clean Air Class 1 Facility, ISO 9001 Certified, and ISO14001 Registration in process.
• Charter Member of Businesses for the Bay – received 2001 Award for Pollution Prevention.
• Member, United States Green Building Council.
• Any water resources utilized in our plant are re-purified and returned cleaner than received.
• Superior Lees Performance Backing Systems and Duracolor Fiber Technology are more sustainable and have extended lifecycle usage… thereby reducing waste.

 

Zero Energy SIPS Cottage
Atlanta, Georgia
Builder: Certified Living, Inc.
Sponsor: Captain Planet Foundation

1,700 sq. ft. home with 2 bedrooms, 2 bath and a loft

Key Features:

• Photo - voltaic system
• Solar hot water heating
• Passive Solar design
• Ducts in conditioned space
• Controlled ventilation
• High performance envelope, windows and an integrated HVAC system
• Advanced framing with structural insulated panels (SIPs)

Learn more about materials used. Including: Lees Tajo Broadloom Carpeting

Read what the Atlanta-Journal Constitution has to say about the Zero Energy SIPS Cottage

See Captain Planet at the Zero Energy Cottage in person