GreenBuild with bioLime

Lifecycled.

The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Build rating system encourages and accelerates the global adoption of sustainable green building and development practices by implementing universally understood and accepted tools and performance criteria.

bioLime is a building material that integrally contributes towards achieving true Green Build objectives. Learn more about bioLime's LEED points.

The bioLime lifecycle analysis

bioLime products are created from a natural material of the earth – Lime rock.

In order to break the lime rock into a powder-like form, we fire the stone in a kiln which naturally releases CO₂ into the atmosphere. From here, it is mixed with water and then held in tanks for aging. Once applied as a paint, plaster, or mortar onto a structure, it completes its life cycle by reabsorbing (carbonating) the initial CO₂ output from the kiln firing which results in its return to its origin as mountainous rock.

bioLime concludes with a product lifecycle that has a zero-carbon output.

Embodied Energy

During our manufacturing process, our energy output is most concentrated when we fire lime rock, grind it with water, and sieve it through a very fine mesh.

Even though bioLime consumes energy from a hydro-electric source, our energy output is minimal when compared to typical industrial production.

bioLime works with the forces of nature. In fact, we have integrated this mentality into our own fabrication practices for over 80 years.

bioLime products are truly sustainable building materials.

Lime's Environmental Benefits

Here are just a few of the environmentally friendly features of lime:

• Lime is exceptionally durable.
• Lime is highly porous, enabling a wall system to breathe, and improving indoor air quality.
• Lime is mold-resistant and a natural biocide.
• All-natural lime paints and plasters can tolerate damp applications that would normally de-laminate acrylic-based plasters, latex-based paints, conventional stuccos, and even Portland cement and Gypsum-based plasters.
• Lime helps create optimal thermal protection.
• Lime self-heals. Small cracks that occur in a lime structure can self-fuse, unlike Portland cement and other synthetic cement and stucco products.

See the benefits of lime to discover more incredible characteristics of lime.