Federal Courthouse Nearing Completion

Accent Surfaces was contracted to install countertops throughout the new federal courthouse in downtown Reno. This new building will solve the technological, security, and space issues the historic Frank E. Moss U.S. Courthouse faced. Accent Surfaces is close to finishing the installation of Galaxy Black granite countertops in each of the 10 courtrooms. Solid surface…

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Copper Mountain Middle School Project Completed

Corian Sorrel is featured throughout the administrative offices and media center in the newly-built Copper Mountain Middle School in Herriman, Nevada. Accent Surfaces recently completed installing $250,000 worth of countertops throughout the impressive new Copper Mountain Middle School in Herriman, Nevada. Areas in which our products can be found include the media center, classrooms, computer…

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Information on Granite Countertops in Nevada

Designers are more frequently being asked to identify green building materials, but do not always have the needed information. Using the life-cycle data, material fact sheets describing several stone types are being generated to provide useful information in this selection process, among other information. The one-page (double-sided) documents will summarize the current market for stone,…

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Quarry Locations in the world

At Accent Surfaces we are asked all sorts of questions about granite and one of the most popular questions is where does it come form? Because there are some many places it can be hard to remember them all. The number one place is Brazil. They have some seriously good quarries.  Take a look at…

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Green Building (Lavatory Reading)

Accent Surfaces does all we can to be ECO-friendly and the products we use are very ECO-friendly and the practices we use in fabricating are some of the top practices available. Here is a case study about the use of the materials we use in “Building Green”- Natural stone has many innate attributes that make…

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