Forest Stewardship Council Certification

Accent Surfaces holds an FSC Chain of Custody certificate, meaning the sub wood or particle board for our countertops is tracked from production to our store to ensure it is derived from a responsibly managed forest. According to the FSC website, “Being FSC certified shows that you comply with the highest social and environmental standards…

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,…

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…