Build Green
 

Today’s home buyers look for homes that utilize products that can reduce their energy costs, improve indoor air quality and are environmentally responsible. TruFlor Sub-flooring is a structural T&G panel designed for use in sub-flooring applications. TruFlor panels do not contain any added urea formaldehyde resins and are also available with either SFI Chain of Custody or FSC certification. TruFlor T&G sub-flooring is available in all markets served by our mills.

TruFlor Sub-flooring can help meet your green building initiatives such as the National Green Building Standard and LEED. TruFlor is certified by the NAHB Research Center as an “Approved Green Product” for the National Green Building Standard. Below you will find those certificates and other information sheets that will help you determine what practices and points may be available to you when TruFlor is used. All Norbord OSB including Trubord, TallWall, Windstorm, Pinnacle, Solarbord, Stabledge and Rimboard are “Approved Green Products” and can help you meet your initiatives.

Forest Certificates are available in the “Forest Certifications” section.

 
Information on how Raised Floors help in "Reducing Carbon Footprint" by the APA (The Engineered Wood Assoc): PDF (643 KB)

Click here to access the Truflor Build Green PDF

Click here to access the new TruFlor Product website
 
          


David Salazaar and Julio Mendes used TruFlor on a 400 unit apartment project in South Carolina and here's what they had to say: "Norbord's TruFlor has held up well during our construction cycle, it's been easy on our framers during installation and most of all – problem free."




Trubord from Norbord is a certified "Green Approved Product" for the National Green Building Standard