What Obama Taught Us About Sustainability: GreenBuild 2020 Change comes from a sense of place – stories matter. We all have a memory of our favorite park growing up, or that trip to the Grand Canyon. Our surroundings move and…
A Brief History of Greenbuild The GreenBuild show has morphed over the years. A decade ago, it was the place to go to see the new green building materials that were coming to market and stay up to speed on…
Silicosis: a Primer for the Quartz & Stone Industry Silicosis has become a hot topic in the stone world of late, and there is a lot of fear and confusion around the issue. It is important that this issue be taken…
In recent times there has been a paradigm shift in home designs with an accelerated push towards uniqueness and sustainability. With more people inhabiting cities, the growing demand for energy and a concomitant rise in greenhouse gas emissions are fueling…
The Dark Crystal: Silicosis & Quartz Countertops Before you start spiraling around your office in a frantic headspin because you don’t like the topic, let’s be clear on a few things: Quartz countertops do not cause any disease when they…
When Lapitec was first conceived of 20 years ago, there was not even a category of surfacing called sintered stone. Now, two decades later, the sintered stone category is coming on strong as the most durable, innovative surface on…
10 Reasons to #putcorkinit Cork has been around for thousands of years. It is the bark on the outside of an oak tree (the cork oak) and is mostly found in Portugal, Italy, and Spain as its growth is conducive…
Pop the Cork – Why You Need To Use Cork In Your Building Cork has long been relegated to wine bottles and home to pushpins suspending pictures and notes for decades. But the building industry needs to take note of…
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It is not quartz. It is not soild surface. It is not printed porcelain. That is Lapitec sintered stone. The marble look is hot right now and for the first time, you can get it in sintered stone with…