Environment
Wood flooring is a beautiful, long-lasting, sustainable flooring product that conserves natural and financial resources. NWFA provides the tools necessary to communicate wood flooring’s unique environmental story to architects, designers, and end-users in an objective, clear way.
ENVIRONMENTAL PRODUCT DECLARATIONS (EPD)
Confidently join the carbon discussion. NWFA’s EPDs provide internationally recognized scientific evidence that wood flooring is renewable and has a noticeably smaller carbon footprint than all other flooring categories.
LIFE CYCLE COST ANALYSIS (LCCA)
Quickly overcome the objection that wood flooring is too expensive. Compare the total cost of owning 18 different flooring materials over the life cycle of a building. The cost per year ranking proves that wood flooring has excellent long-term value.
