Green Remodeling – Ecology Friendly Drywall
We see more green remodeling ideas everyday, particularly in the area of earth-friendly building materials. We found another company in a similar category to Serious Materials, the maker of EcoRock – a new alternative drywall solution, that we brought to your attention recently.
Cleanboard, a San Francisco based drywall startup, is a new company with a slightly different twist on a drywall product manufactured using a more environmentally friendly process. Cleanboard promotes their ecology friendly drywall product as “the most environmentally friendly drywall on earth“.
CleanBoard has created a solar powered system that uses mirrors to concentrate the sun’s rays on a heat collector which heats a transfer fluid to store the sun’s radiant energy. The heated transfer fluid heats the drywall baking ovens up to 200 degrees Celsius. And the transfer fluid can store the heat in pressurized chambers up to 24 hours enabling the company to manufacture drywall even on days when the sun isn’t shining.
The traditional gypsum drywall manufacturing process typically relies on fuel expensive gas fired ovens that represent a significant carbon footprint. Moving to a solar based technology to heat the ovens provides a carbon free solution and should reduce the energy costs to manufacture the drywall by more than 50%.
The solar powered drywall facility will be based in the Mojave Desert where an almost year-round supply of radiant sunshine is available. CleanBoard expects to be in full production able to produce 2 million square feet of drywall in 2010, with projections to expand production to 10 million square feet of drywall in 2011, and the ability to produce a peak volume of 100 million square feet of drywall.
Today’s homeowners are not just interested in remodeling their homes for beauty, comfort and convenience. Improving the energy efficiency in their homes and protecting the environment are becoming increasingly important home improvement considerations as well.
Keeping an eye out for environmentally friendly and energy efficient building materials will help you make the best green remodeling decisions for your next home improvement project.
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