October 5, 2007 - (Valley Forge, Pennsylvania) - Focusing on sustainable construction methods since it opened for business in 1966, McStain Neighborhoods, of Louisville, Colorado, is considered a green building pioneer. The company has spent all of its 41 years looking for the best building materials and products to help provide more sustainable, energy-efficient homes to its customers.

About four years ago, the builder discovered CertainTeed® WeatherBoards™ FiberCement Siding and was impressed by its durability and traditional wood lap siding appearance. The product is now a standard specification on all McStain-built homes. The builder averages, approximately 400 homes per year.

WeatherBoards

CertainTeed strengthened its relationship with green builders this year by adding recycled fly ash to WeatherBoards' existing composition of Portland cement, wood fiber and specialty additives, creating a more environmentally friendly, lighter-weight and lower-density product.

"We are always looking for new, durable materials, made with recycled content, and CertainTeed WeatherBoards satisfies both of those requirements," says Jeff Medanich, Manager of Building Science at McStain Neighborhoods. "It comes with a 50-year warranty and it's made with recycled material. Overall, I think it's a great product, and I would definitely recommend it to other eco-conscious builders."

Over the years, McStain Neighborhoods has built a strong green construction strategy with a mix of common sense building methods and an ever-developing collection of building products that work together to produce a home that is more sustainable. "We know this is the right way to build homes," Medanich says. "Whatever their motivation, it's important for people to buy and build green. We've done green construction for 41 years, and we're going to keep doing it, no matter what.

"We are happy to be the fiber cement siding choice of successful green builders like McStain Neighborhoods," says Lisa Santerian, Marketing Manager for CertainTeed FiberCement. "We look forward to helping these building professionals take construction to another level and build better, more sustainable homes for the world of tomorrow."

Available in an array of beautiful pre-finished colors and premium stains for faster job completion, WeatherBoards is a complete system of lap and vertical siding, decorative shapes, soffit, and trim. It has a Class A (Class 1) fire rating, is impervious to wood-boring insects, resists damaging effects of salt spray and UV rays, will not rot, and consistently outperforms wood siding. For more information visit www.ctfibercement.com.
About CertainTeed
Through innovation and creative product design, CertainTeed has helped shape the building products industry for more than 100 years. Founded in 1904 as General Roofing Company, the firm made its slogan "Quality Made Certain, Satisfaction Guaranteed," which quickly inspired the name CertainTeed. Today, CertainTeed is North America's leading brand of exterior and interior building products, including roofing, siding, windows, fence, decking, railing, trim, foundations, pipe, insulation, walls, ceilings and access covers.

Headquartered in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, CertainTeed and its affiliates have approximately 8,000 employees and nearly 70 manufacturing facilities throughout the United States and Canada. In 2006 the group had consolidated sales approaching $4 billion. www.certainteed.com.