Huggins Wood Floor Specialist Presents: It’s Not Easy Being Green – Sustainability of Wood

Please join Huggins Wood Floor Specialist “ONLINE” for our one credit course, It’s Not Easy Being Green – Sustainability of Wood. Joe Avila, one of the world’s most renowned wood flooring specialists and wood flooring inspectors, covers how you and your firm can avoid wood flooring failures and costly lawsuits when specifying wood flooring systems. Stay up to date with the latest wood flooring trends, get informed of innovative wood flooring systems and green friendly products to save you and your clients time and money.

This course assists architect and design professionals in understanding the green attributes of hardwood flooring so that they can effectively specify wood flooring for their client projects and meet potential green building program criteria. This is a 1 CEU credit course. The National Wood Flooring Association will submit the forms to IDCEC and AIA for your CEU’s approval.

Learning Objectives

• Understand the renewability of wood floors
• Discuss the life cycle of wood floors
• Describe the impact of wood flooring on natural resources
• Identify the impact of wood flooring on global warming
• Recognize the impact of wood flooring on landfill waste
• Explain the impact of wood flooring on indoor air quality
• Define low VOC finishes and adhesives
• Convey the maintenance of wood flooring, and detail the value of wood floors
• Summarize the sustainability of wood flooring
• Understand the history of hardwood floors
• Discuss the advantages of hardwood floors
• Describe the types of hardwood floors
• Identify different species of hardwood floors
• Recognize how hardwood floors react to moisture
• Explain the sustainability of hardwood floors
• Examine maintenance of hardwood floors