{"id":168,"date":"2015-06-22T05:00:46","date_gmt":"2015-06-21T21:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terrazzo.net.au\/blog\/?p=168"},"modified":"2015-06-15T06:24:37","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T22:24:37","slug":"terrazzo-flooring-environmental-sustainability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terrazzo.net.au\/blog\/terrazzo-flooring-environmental-sustainability\/","title":{"rendered":"Terrazzo Flooring and its Environmental Sustainability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Terrazzo Flooring and its Environmental Sustainability<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Among all the flooring systems in the market today, terrazzo flooring is regarded as one of the most sustainable and environment-friendly.\u00a0 This is due to how the terrazzo material is made and the components that make it up.\u00a0 Terrazzo flooring is typically made out of cement with the addition of other materials such as scrapped marble, rock or post-consumer glass.\u00a0 The use of these post-consumer composites makes terrazzo eco-friendly because nothing is wasted.\u00a0 Every scrapped material is processed and added into the mix to create uniquely designed patterns and colours.\u00a0 This uniqueness is also what makes terrazzo one of the most design-flexible flooring materials available to builders and designers.<\/p>\n<p>Historically, terrazzo is probably one of the first, if not the original recycled flooring system.\u00a0 Ancient Venetian workers took scrapped marble that were left over from building houses of the wealthy and set them with clay to build patios around their residences.\u00a0 Today, terrazzo flooring continues to be environment friendly that is both durable and low-maintenance.\u00a0 Additionally, because of its composition, terrazzo has no volatile organic compounds or VOC, further cementing its eco-friendly status.<\/p>\n<p>And because terrazzo flooring is massively durable and longevity \u2013 often lasting as long as the structure it resides in \u2013 environmentally conscious builders almost always recommend the terrazzo flooring systems for structures with high foot traffic such as malls, hotels, airports and hospitals.\u00a0 Furthermore, because terrazzo flooring can be refinished repeatedly, there is literally no need to replace any materials.\u00a0 This is especially very beneficial in structures like hospitals and airports where the opportunity to rebuild or change flooring systems is very scarce due to the nature of the structures\u2019 purpose.<\/p>\n<p>Terrazzo flooring is definitely the benchmark for all eco-friendly materials.\u00a0 It boasts of high sustainability, longevity and durability without stinting on design flexibility.\u00a0 Also, because of all these excellent qualities, building and installation costs have become non-issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terrazzo Flooring and its Environmental Sustainability Among all the flooring systems in the market today, terrazzo flooring is regarded as one of the most sustainable and environment-friendly.\u00a0 This is due to how the terrazzo material is made and the components that make it up.\u00a0 Terrazzo flooring is typically made out of cement with the addition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Terrazzo Flooring and its Environmental Sustainability<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Today, terrazzo flooring continues to be environment friendly that is both durable and low-maintenance. 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