Gilasi Is Green

Gilasi is Green

Gilasi is proud of its green credentials. Following are institutions that certify our compliance with the highest standards of environmentally sound product manufacturing. Our surfaces combine safe, sustainable, top-quality materials with meticulous processing to produce a beautiful, high detail, versatile product that feels and acts like stone.

Declare helps people find safe, healthy, environmentally friendly manufactured products. Gilasi qualifies for Declare's highest category of products that are free of toxic chemicals (VOCs). The EPA tells us that VOCs posing serious risks to human health have become basic ingredients in many everyday building materials.

The Health Product Declaration (HDP) allows architects, builders and others to know precisely what’s in a product and how it will impact a building’s environment and the human beings inside it.

Mindful Materials provides building project teams with certified resources to identify and specify products that comply with varying forms of disclosure and optimization for sustainable projects.

Independent, third-party laboratories verify Gilasi’s claims of sustainability.

A listing of additional environmental compliance criteria.

As a Green America Certified Business, we show our commitment to the environment through our business practices, product development and manufacturing.

Gilasi purchases carbon offsets for all its production energy consumption and employee commuting. We also give you, our client, the possibility to take part by opting in for carbon offsets for your materials delivery. This is just one more way to help keep supply lines as sustainable as possible. No pressure. By choosing Gilasi, you already help to reduce the mining of mountains and you can up-cycle waste glass into a new production loop.

LEED Contribution

CREDIT	DESCRIPTION	QUALIFIER	POINTS
MR 2	Construction waste management.	Gilasi's Third life take back program facilitates the return of unused material to be re-used in the production of new material or new products.	50%-1, 70%-2
MR 4.1 MR 4.2	Recycled content 10%	Gilasi contains 77-85% recycled material by weight.	10%-1 20%-2
MR 5: Regional Materials	Use materials sourced with 500 miles of project.	Gilasi sources all of the material used in production within 500 miles of our facility.	10%-1 20%-2
MR 3	Maintain a sustainable purchasing program.	All material used in Gilasi is sourced within 500 miles of our facility. 77-85% of material purchased to create Gilasi is of recycled content.	1
MR 9	Divert at least 70% of waste (by volume) generated by facility alterations and additions from disposal to landfills and incineration facilities.	Gilasi's Third life take back program facilitates the return of unused material to be re-used in the production of new material or new products.	1

CREDIT: MR 2
DESCRIPTION: Construction waste management.
QUALIFIER: Gilasi's Third Life take-back program facilitates the return of unused material to be re-used in the production of new material or new products.
POINTS: 50%-1, 70%-2

CREDIT: MR 4.1 | MR 4.2
DESCRIPTION: Recycled content 10%
QUALIFIER: Gilasi contains 77-85% recycled material by weight.
POINTS: 10%-1 | 20%-2

CREDIT: MR 5: Regional Materials
DESCRIPTION: Use materials sourced with 500 miles of project.
QUALIFIER: Gilasi sources all of the material used in production within 500 miles of our facility.
POINTS: 10%-1 | 20%-2

CREDIT: MR 3
DESCRIPTION: Maintain a sustainable purchasing program.
QUALIFIER: All material used in Gilasi is sources within 500 miles of our facility. 77-85% of material purchased to create Gilasi is of recycled content.
POINTS: 1

CREDIT: MR 9
DESCRIPTION: Divert at least 70% of waste (by volume) generated by facility alterations and additions from disposal to landfills and incineration facilities.
QUALIFIER: Gilasi's Third life take back program facilitates the return of unused material to be re-used in the production of new material or new products.
POINTS: 1