Benefits of The Paragon Home Package
Package allows you to:
• Customize your home in any manner, no style, type or size is beyond Paragon’s reach
• Mix and match building systems, for example, adding a timber component to a conventional design
• Specify your own materials, such as specifying healthy and environmentally friendly products
• Take advantage of specific building systems. Concrete, steel, log, timber, hybrid, super-insulated
• Choose and shop for your own finish items, Such as kitchen and bath cabinets, fixtures, shelving, stairs and railings
Services and products innovation that meet basic human needs
Carbon Negative
That means we absorb more CO2 from the atmosphere than we produce. During photosynthesis, trees absorb carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, from the air and give off oxygen. iLevel wood products continue to store carbon during their useful life, limiting the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. In 2008 the products we manufactured stored the equivalent of 7.7 million metric tons of CO2.
Resource Efficient
On average, we use 99% of each log to produce iLevel and Weyerhaeuser wood products, additional wood products, and energy. And our engineered wood products are made using advance technologies that allow us to take wood fiber from trees less suitable for structural lumber and efficiently turn them into strong, predictable building materials.
Low Emitting
Urea formaldehyde resins are not added to any of our products. Concerns about off-gassing from urea formaldehyde have led to limits on emissions, most notably by the California Air Resources Board (CARB). iLevel engineered wood products are exempt from requirements of CARB. Consult our materials and safety data sheets (MSDS) for more details or download iLevel’s Q&A on adhesives and formaldehyde.
Renewable
Trees from sustainably managed forests are a renewable resource and all of Weyerhaeuser’s North American timberlands are certified to either the Sustainable Forestry Initiative
Need link: Standards Association (CSA/Z809) Sustainable Forestry Management standard.
Certified to Sustainable Forestry Standards
iLevel products are independently certified to either SFI or CSA/Z809. Having our products certified to these standards indicates that iLevel has lived up to the highest criteria for obtaining the raw materials that go into making our products. Independent certification also provides our customers with the assurance that iLevel follows responsible purchasing practices.
Made Using Renewable Energy
More than half of the energy needed to make iLevel building materials comes from by-products of the manufacturing process.
Useful Links:
* Sustainable Forestry Initiative® (SFI)
* Canadian Standards Association (CSA)
Green Building
Green building focuses on how effectively structures and the sites they are built on use energy, water and materials. This includes every step of the building process, as well as ongoing requirements during a structure’s life.
The goal is to enhance human health and the environment by focusing on site selection, building design, construction methods, operating systems, maintenance and waste.
Environmental profiles and life-cycle assessments are common methods for comparing environmental performance among green building materials. These methods rely on accurate and detailed data gathered during the course of a product’s life.
Independent reviews of these life-cycle assessments show that wood requires less energy to produce and provides better insulation from cold and heat than alternative materials. The Consortium for Research on Renewable Industrial Materials found that in a typical home, wood construction offers the following advantages:
· 17 percent less energy needed than steel
· 16 percent less energy needed than concrete
· 26 percent less greenhouse gases generated than steel
· 31 percent less greenhouse gases generated than concrete
Wood also generated fewer air pollutants.
Additionally, Paragon Homes via Weyerhaeuser’s / ILevel wood products are made from trees harvested from forests certified by third parties as sustainably managed. These wood products store carbon during their useful life, limiting the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
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