LEED-CI PLATINUM Certified

Located a few blocks away from the White House in downtown Washington, DC, this Nixon Peabody, LLP. location features reSAWN's FSC ® certified Rift and Quarter Sawn Select Grade White Oak flooring. With a modern design aesthetic that focuses on open floor plans and communal work spaces, the architect, Perkins+ Will, specified the FSC ® certified Rift and Quarter Sawn White Oak flooring as a beautiful, naturally colored design feature that is also sustainable.
Our PLATEAU collection promotes the natural color and beauty of domestic rift and quarter sawn white oak. All of the PLATEAU collection designs are available as FSC ® certified.

Video Source: The Danish Wood Initiative

When thinking about wood as a sustainable building material, many people jump to the idea that manufacturing a finished wood product causes mass deforestation, a decrease of the total number of trees, and an increase of total carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. On the surface, it seems to be sound logic to think that more wood products equal more environmental harm, but wood is a living material that maintains the carbon dioxide it absorbed into its trunk as a tree throughout its product lifecycle as a building material.

ABOUT THE PROJECT

Pizza (216), a New York style, brick oven pizzeria, is located in Cleveland, OH. With an interior motif that sets a maroon color scheme against dark, brown seating, the dining room and bar are cohesively finished with reSAWN’s KURO shou sugi ban charred cypress wall cladding that accentuates the restaurant’s natural aesthetic.

This material was specified by local and national award-winning, Robert Maschke Architects Inc., known for innovative design techniques that create “…complex spatial effects with modest means.”  Materials were specified with a 5-1/8″ wide face and tongue & groove milling. A select grade of cypress was used to ensure a high-quality look and durable functionality.