CRS: Building

Sustainable Designs at the CRS office

Paneling

Sunflower Seed Paneling
For the dividers facing our conference room, CRS uses a product composed of a unique bio-based material created from an abundant agricultural fiber, sunflower seed hulls. The material exhibits the natural elegance of traditional burled woods, using a rapidly renewable agricultural fiber, rather than consuming trees that take 10-20 years to mature. It is produced by Phenix Biocomposites of Mankato, MN.

Bamboo Paneling in Entry The new CRS Building has bamboo paneling in the entry way. Bamboo is a rapidly renewable resource (mature for harvesting in 4-5 years) used as a substitute for other popular hardwoods such as Oak, Cherry, Maple, and rainforest hardwoods (which take 30-40 years to mature). It grows in various parts of the world, is easy to produce, and produces four to five times more biomass than the trees commonly felled for wood production. There are a number of attractive flooring products made from bamboo. This product is a flexible tambour panel made in China by Plyboo.

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