The zen of green
The Center for Green Building in Bridgeport seeks to make your home greener in ways that are logical for the mind, body and pocket.
“About ten years ago we started as a carpentry company called Measure for Measure,” said Erin Buckley who owns the business with her husband, Jon Tuminski. “Jon was having a lot of allergic reactions and health problems; we started contacting our vendors and all of my research kept coming up with the fact that trades guys are 56 percent more likely to get cancer because of all the toxic materials that they use every day. So I started to research alternatives and go to our local vendors and nobody had ever heard of environmentally friendly building; they didn’t know why we were concerned.”
The couple opened up the Center for Green Building five years ago. Since then Buckley and Tuminski have moved to a larger facility on Fairfield Avenue.
“Our first product was the cotton insulation, where they take blue jean donations and scraps of cotton and shred it down, super saturate it with a borate solution and flash dry it to make an excellent insulator,” said Buckley. “If you have one layer of cotton you need three layers of fiberglass to get the same R-value.”
R-value is a measure of thermal resistance used in the building and construction industry.
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