PDCA's Project Green Brush


    Today, about 85 percent of all Architectural Coatings produced are water-based. Each year hundreds of millions of gallons of these products are sold to do-it-yourself customers and painting contractors.


    You can just smell it. You install new carpeting in your home, and the air in your living room takes on a brash, chemical scent. That can't be good. The health and safety of our families is a top priority for all of us, yet it's surprising how common it is to neglect easy ways to protect them

    PDCA's New Project Green Brush promotes the use of planning and application methods, along with materail use that are all environmentally safer.  Project Green Brush provides resources for Contractors and Consumers to assist all entites in shaping and actively participating in protecting our environment.

    Trying to get your arms around the burgeoning “green” market isn’t easy, either. Being green is many things to many people, and what’s “green” to one person isn’t to another. These devilish contradictions are in the details, which can drive a paint manufacturer or contractor nuts.

    Hearing and reading about the “green” market is inescapable. As painters you’ve been dealing with changes to many products to make them “greener” and more acceptable to various state and local regulators, to LEED-certificated projects, and to meet growing customer interest and demand.

    Green design and green operations go hand-in-hand. As people become increasingly sophisticated about sustainable solutions, the floodgate of product choices, technology advances and information opens full force. With that situation, the sustainable design team model is particularly effective in balancing multiple green building design considerations.

    Green Seal’s updated GS-11 is the first paint standard in the US to require reduced VOC levels of colorants.