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Which company oers the greenest
Scattered loyalties. This data is a pretty good
STRUCTURAL SYSTEM products? mental map of how builders operate. They tend
to identify a structural system and stick with it.

Boise Cascade (EWP) 21.2% Engineered Wood Products such as first-place
Boise Cascade are now familiar to trades and a
Weyerhauser – Trus Joist 17.9% comfortable choice. But read between the lines
and you see both an ICF product (Fox Blocks)
Fox Blocks 10.9% and an SIP maker ranking high in brand
Premiere Building Systems (SIPs) 9.4% perception. Builders and trades are loyal to their
structural favorites, yes, but that loyalty is not
BuildBlock 7.1% heavily concentrated in one type of system.

Logix (ICF) 6.6% Boise Cascade
Ainsworth (EWP) 57 5.7%

Norbord (EWP) 43 4.3% (EWP) 21.2%
Katerra 43 4.3%

Which company oers the

greenest SIDING products? EIFS returns. Gone are the panicked days
when early versions of EIFS stumbled into
building science problems. EIFS and stucco
BASF (EIFS) 14.6% systems in general have rebuilt their brand trust
and loyalty with pros, leapfrogging above last
CertainTeed Cedarboards 12.3% year’s brand winner, James Hardie fiber
cement. And CertainTeed’s insulated vinyl/
James Hardie (fiber cement) 11.8% polymer siding product also made gains (up

Omega Stucco 8.5% from fourth position last year). This is worth
noting, because although Cedarboards contain
Boral (brick and 60 percent recycled (post-industrial) content,
manufactured stone) 61 6.1% they are largely a vinyl product. The company
asserts [www.certainteed.com/resources/137.
Eldorado Stone pdf] that these products are now accepted as
(manufactured stone) 57 5.7% an environmentally friendly product.

KlipTech EcoClad 57 5.7% Are they right?
Nichiha (fiber cement) 5.2% BASF (EIFS)

LP Smartside 5.2%
Dryvit 47 4.7% 14.6%

Creative Mines
(manufactured stone) 43 4.3%

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