Alcoa highlights sustainable aluminum design at Greenbuild 2009

Saturday, 07 Nov 2009

Alcoa aluminum has always offered unique advantages for designing the shape, appearance and finish of modern buildings. Today it offers an even more important advantage: sustainability. That is what visitors to Alcoa booth will see for themselves at the 2009 Greenbuild International Conference and Expo in Phoenix on November 10th to 12th 2009.

The exhibit shows how aluminum products from Alcoa help architects optimize the physical environment by making buildings more energy efficient with greater natural lighting and cooling using lightweight, strong and flexible products, like Alcoa’s Reynobond aluminum composite material. Reynobond is used around the work in a wide range of architectural and specialty applications.

Also featured is a montage of Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certified buildings that include Alcoa and our Kawneer architectural aluminum products as sustainable solutions, such as the 1600 SunShade, a pre engineered, easy to install sunshade that helps achieve maximum day lighting, while minimizing direct sunlight. In addition, throughout the show visitors to the Alcoa booth can learn the company’s sustainability story and how aluminum factors in the cradle to cradle concept of eliminating waste, because of the metal’s infinite recyclables.

Mr Dave Schlendorf president of Alcoa Building and Construction Systems said that “When you combine Green Building advantages with aluminum’s well known recyclable, aesthetic and design benefits, it’s little wonder that high performance, Green Buildings start with Alcoa aluminum.”

The Alcoa booth was constructed using a variety of eco friendly materials including custom curved, recyclable aluminum sheet panels and framing, Reynobond aluminum composite panel with a surface almost indistinguishable from real wood, recyclable ECO stone rubber flooring, LED lighting elements, ENERGY STAR rated computer monitors, acrylic low VOC paints and clear coating and water based adhesives.