The main components of tiles are clay and sand – natural ingredients that are abundantly present in nature. Architessa believes in providing products that are sustainably sourced and created. Many of our offerings contribute to LEED credits, through recycled content, energy saving initiatives and streamlined manufacturing. Tile is intrinsically sustainable and many of our products have high recycled content and environmental certifications such as Greenguard, Cradle to Cradle, and Red List Free.
Our team is dedicated to seeking relevant environment information for you to leverage sustainability components in projects. Information we report on includes recycled content, certifications, and declarations. Explore our curated collections & more below.
Discover the Tile Sustainability Guide for our industry and learn about these topics and more:
Ceramic tile has an exceptional life cycle. See the life-cycle cost study below for data on how ceramic tile outperforms other floor finishes in cost per square foot over time. Ceramic tile has been the preferred choice around the world for centuries for its timeless beauty and durability.
These Collections are have verified Health Product Declarations (HPD) and/or Environmental Product Declarations (EPD). Your Architessa rep can provide the documents on request.
The C2C Product Standard provides the framework to assess the safety, circularity and responsibility of materials and products across five categories of sustainability performance.
GREENGUARD ensures that a product has met some of the world’s most rigorous and comprehensive standards for low emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) into indoor air.
DECLARED products disclose 100% of ingredients present in the final product, but contain one or more Red List chemicals that are not covered by an approved exception. Read more here.
The Living Building Challenge (LBC) Red List represents the “worst in class” materials, chemicals, and elements known to pose serious risks to human health and the greater ecosystem.
mindful MATERIALS Inc. is an organization, dedicated to reducing, and ultimately reversing, the embodied impacts of the built environment through our collective material choices.