Millenia® Retaining Walls Voted Best Green Exterior Product

Millenia Wall Solutions Wins Readers' Choice Award for Best Green Building Products

Minneapolis, MN and Boston, MA (PRWEB) November 20, 2008 -- Millenia Wall Solutions, developer of the Millenia® Retaining Wall System (http://www.milleniawalls.com/Technology.aspx), announced that its SC100™/SC50™ Retaining Wall Units won Best Exterior Product/Design in the first annual Readers' Choice Awards conducted by Environmental Design + Construction (ED+C) and Sustainable Facility magazines. Winners were announced on November 18, 2008 in Boston, Mass. at the U.S. Green Building Council's Greenbuild International Conference and Expo.

Millenia® retaining walls offer incomparable beauty, durability and ease of installation - plus a clear environmental advantage (http://milleniawalls.com/Green.aspx) for up to eight LEED credit points in green building and sustainable development projects. Millenia® wall units are listed the GreenSpec® Directory, the recognized source of authoritative information on the top 5-10 percent of the most environmentally positive alternatives among all green construction products. Millenia® SC100 and SC50 wall units are manufactured in 100 percent pre-consumer recycled polymers. When used instead of concrete blocks, the Millenia® system reduces the environmental impact of retaining walls by 55 percent -- including a two-thirds reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.

The Readers' Choice Awards is an online contest that gives both manufacturers and readers the opportunity to showcase and vote for, respectively, the top green building products that best combine sustainable attributes with ease of use and installation. Readers visited the ED+C Web site to cast their vote for the best green products in ten different categories. A complete list of winners and product descriptions is available on the ED+C Web site (http://www.edcmag.com/CDA/Articles/Breaking_News/BNP_GUID_9-5-2006_A_10000000000000470726).

About Millenia Wall Solutions:

Headquartered in Minneapolis, Minn., Millenia Wall Solutions (www.milleniawalls.com) is setting the 21st century standard for the construction of segmental retaining walls by advancing the most significant innovation in the industry since the 1980s. Millenia has introduced an inventive, high-tech alternative to conventional building materials. Millenia is a member of the U.S. Green Building Council and GreenSpec-listed*. Our retaining walls are eco-friendly and offer incomparable beauty, strength, stability and durability - achieved with lightweight, recycled polymeric resin materials that contractors can install easily, quickly and with less labor. The Weight is Over™. Ready to Build Intelligently®? Check out Millenia on our Web site. Then give us a call at 1.866.549.WALL (9255).

Millenia will exhibit its retaining wall system at Hardscapes North America (booth #932), January 16-17, 2009, Cobb Galleria Center, Atlanta, Ga. and at the International Builders' Show (booth #S10424), January 20-23, 2009, Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nev.

*GreenSpec is a trademark of Building Green, LLC.

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