Conserving Natural Resources:
Conventional building practices consume large quantities of wood, plastic, cardboard, paper, water and other natural resources. For example, wood is one of our most common building materials, but it has often been used wastefully. America has harvested 95% of the its old-growth forests, an obviously unsustainable trend. Whenever feasible BCC utilizes engineered lumber products such as wood I-joists, wood fiber laminates, and oriented strand board, that come from fast growing renewable farm trees. When manufactured into engineered wood products, we can often use as little as 50% of the wood fiber as solid lumber, and are typically stronger, straighter and lighter.
Approximately 40% of the material being placed in our land fills is construction scrap and waste. BCC Builders makes a conscious effort to minimize our waste, and to divert what remains to be recycled. Some other ways we conserve resources include using:
