Recycled Content Surfacing Materials: Identifying Value under LEED® and Beyond
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In today’s market, designers are always looking for innovative products that are beautiful, versatile, and sustainable. Glass-quartz surfacing encompasses all of these characteristics. This course describes the importance of recycled content surfaces and their environmental significance, including reducing the use of natural resources and improving indoor air quality. Traditional and recycled surfacing materials are compared, the sustainable manufacturing process is explained, and life cycle environmental impact and case study applications are discussed.
Upon completion of this course, the Learner should be able to:
- Define the difference between green building and green products and discuss the benefits of recycling.
- Define recycled glass-quartz surfacing materials and discuss the innovative production process that creates unique tile properties and results in reduced environmental impact.
- Discuss selecting recycled glass-quartz surfacing in terms of life cycle environmental impact, color, texture, and sustainability.
- Explain how using recycled glass-quartz surfacing products may contribute to a building project earning points under the LEED® rating system in the Materials and Resources and Indoor Environmental Quality categories.
- Explain the importance of specifying and using recycled glass-quartz surfacing materials as related to indoor environmental issues.
Approximately 1 hour. Delivered online, at your own pace.
Presented by Steve DeBerardino on behalf of Cosentino North America. View the Privacy Policy .
Presenter Information
Name: Steve DeBerardino
Title: Commercial Business Director, Cosentino North America
Background: Steve DeBerardino is a 1987 graduate of the United States Military Academy and has an MBA from Charleston Southern University. After serving as a Corps of Engineers officer where he ran large construction projects in Central America, Steve has had a long career in the private sector, primarily in relation to construction products. In various roles at Exxon in the 1990s, he was instrumental in growing the use of geosynthetics. Steve pushed product and material use in stabilization, drainage, and reinforcement applications on a number of fronts: throughout North America as a member of the AASHTO M288 committee, or when presenting cutting edge research at the Transportation Research Board, to state departments of transportation, or at the Geosynthetic Research Institute. In the next decade and a half, Steve ran various business units for Oldcastle of increasing size and responsibility, primarily in the concrete products arena. His last role at Oldcastle started in 2009 when he was President of a multi-site fabrication business in the Southeast, Oldcastle Surfaces. Here, he started a relationship with Cosentino, and joined Cosentino in 2015. He is now the Commercial Business Director, responsible for all commercial business for Cosentino in North America.
