Georgia-Pacific Gypsum Paperless Drywall Achieves Indoor Air Quality Certification

    SAN ANTONIO, Texas, May 3 /PRNewswire/ -- In today's construction market, architects and builders are continuing to select building materials that support better indoor air quality for their school projects. In February 2007, DensArmor Plus® paperless interior drywall from Georgia-Pacific Gypsum LLC earned both GREENGUARD and GREENGUARD Children & Schools(sm) Certification for products that have low chemical emissions. Per a recent agreement between GREENGUARD Environmental Institute (GEI) and the Collaborative for High Performance Schools (CHPS), products that meet the stringent criteria of the GREENGUARD Children & Schools Program, such as DensArmor Plus, automatically qualify for credits in the CHPS program by meeting the State of California's Department of Health Services Standard Practice (CA Section 01350) for testing chemical emissions from building products used in schools.

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    'Building high performance schools can positively impact a child's education,' said Leo Bissonnette, general manager for Georgia-Pacific Gypsum. 'By designing and building with construction materials, such as the moisture- and mold-resistant DensArmor Plus interior drywall, that also meet indoor air quality standards set by GREENGUARD and CHPS, builders can deliver high performance schools for our children.'

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    Based in California, CHPS is a national, non-profit organization that strives to facilitate the design of high performance schools by providing guidelines for school districts and design teams to construct learning environments that are healthy, efficient and comfortable. Throughout the country, the CHPS program has been regionally adapted to meet the needs of the varying climates and local conditions in states such as, New York, Massachusetts, and Washington.

    To earn the GREENGUARD Children & Schools Certification, DensArmor Plus drywall underwent additional emissions testing beyond that required for GREENGUARD Indoor Air Quality Certification. Developed in 2005, the GREENGUARD Children & Schools Program tests additional chemicals and requires lower levels of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in order to identify low- emitting products that can be used to provide school children with reduced exposure to indoor pollutants.

    About Georgia-Pacific
    Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia-Pacific is one of the world's leading manufacturers and marketers of building products, tissue, packaging, paper, cellulose, and related chemicals. The company employs approximately 50,000 people at more than 300 locations in North America, South America and Europe. Georgia-Pacific has long been among the nation's leading manufacturers and suppliers of building products to lumber and building materials dealers and large do-it-yourself warehouse retailers, with brands such as Plytanium®, Ply-Bead® and Wood I Beam™ offered by Georgia-Pacific Wood Products LLC and DensArmor Plus®, DensGlass Gold® and ToughRock® offered by Georgia- Pacific Gypsum LLC. The familiar consumer tissue brands of Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products LP include Quilted Northern®, Angel Soft®, Brawny®, Sparkle®, Soft 'n Gentle®, Mardi Gras®, So-Dri® and Vanity Fair®. Dixie Consumer Products LLC, a Georgia-Pacific company, manufactures the Dixie® brand of disposable cups, plates and cutlery. For more information, visit http://www.gp.com/build or call 800-BUILD GP.

    About GREENGUARD Environmental Institute
    The GREENGUARD Environmental Institute (GEI) is an industry-independent, non-profit organization that oversees the GREENGUARD Certification programs. As an ANSI Authorized Standards Developer, GEI establishes acceptable indoor air standards for indoor products, environments, and buildings. GEI's mission is to improve public health and quality of life through programs that improve indoor air. Visit http://www.greenguard.org to find the certified Georgia- Pacific products and other low-emitting materials.

    About Collaborative for High Performance Schools (CHPS)
    Founded in 2000, the Collaborative for High Performance Schools (CHPS) is a non-profit organization that strives to facilitate the design of high performance schools: environments that are healthy, comfortable, energy, resource and water efficient, safe, secure, adaptable, and easy to operate and maintain. High performance schools help school districts achieve higher student performance, retain quality teachers and staff, reduce operating cost, increase average daily attendance (ADA), and reduce liability, while at the same time reducing environmental impact and resource use. CHPS credits are offered for GREENGUARD Children & Schools Certified products that meet the testing method requirements and emission limits defined in the Agreement between CHPS and GEI. GEI testing methods and criteria outside of the scope of this Agreement, including testing for total VOCs, phthalates, total particles, and criteria for iVOCs with no CRELs, have not been evaluated and are not endorsed by CHPS or CDHS. For more information about CHPS, log onto http://www.chps.net or call 877-642-CHPS.

    The Georgia-Pacific logo and all trademarks are owned by or licensed to Georgia-Pacific Gypsum LLC. The GREENGUARD INDOOR AIR QUALITY CERTIFIED Mark is a registered certification mark used under license through the GREENGUARD Environmental Institute.

    Contacts:
    Nicole Lipson
    Georgia-Pacific
    Senior Marketing Manager
    133 Peachtree St., 8th Floor
    Atlanta, Georgia, 30303
    Tel: 404-652-2535
    nglipson@gapac.com

    Julie McNeal
    Ketchum Public Relations
    Tel: 404-879-9125
    ttaylor@peppercom.com