Find Eco-Friendly Building Materials at Ecolect

If you're building your dream home, renovating your current home, or just starting a new project in your house, you're probably sensitive to how energy-efficient you can make your building plans. At the same time, many local and regional authorities are offering rebates, tax breaks, and other incentives to build with green materials or in an environmentally safe and friendly way. If you're looking for more advice on environmentally friendly building products and materials than you might get from the guy at your local hardware store, head over to Ecolect. The goal of the service is to provide a community where builders and developers as well as homeowners and renovators can learn about new building products and sustainable materials for their building projects.








The word "ecolect" is a coinage from a combination of the words "ecology" and "intellect," and that's exactly what the people behind the site bring to the table. The service aims to educate new and prospective builders on sustainable technologies and materials, explain how those materials are made and what makes them sustainable and environmentally friendly, and finally, tell you where you can go to get them. The people behind the site are designers, so expect more emphasis on materials you can use to design the interior of your home and less on insulation and such. At the same time, Ecolect is moving to include building materials with in-depth articles and reports on topics such as flooring materials and affordable solar panels.



The service has an extensive catalog of sustainable materials: paints and resins, flooring and roofing materials, and more. When you find an item you're interested in, click on it to read more details and to find out where you can order it and who manufactures it. Some of the products at Ecolect are available at your local building-supply stores, and others are specialty items you need to order directly from the manufacturer.

The editors at Ecolect have their own standards for sustainability, which are outlined on the site, so you can be sure that the products featured meet some standard of environmental responsibility. Additionally, the Ecolect editors keep a staff blog that follows company events, peripheral environmental news, and events in the industry. If you know of some eco-friendly building or design materials, you can submit them to the site and even submit your own business, if you're a seller of sustainable building goods.



I found the list of products at Ecolect remarkable for a site that, in theory, shouldn't have too much to write about. I rent my house, but I can definitely see myself turning to Ecolect when it comes time to build my dream home or renovate a fixer-upper that I might buy someday. Ecolect can save you money on your energy bills and qualify you for green building bonuses, not to mention reduce the environmental impact of your building project or home renovation.