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Is Expanded Clay Aggregate – ECA ® a green product?

Is Expanded Clay Aggregate – ECA ® a green product?

Expanded Clay Aggregate – ECA ® is a 'green' building material that helps in a green building practice for its design, construction or operation, reduces or eliminates negative impacts, and can create positive results on our climate and natural environment.

Expanded Clay Aggregate - ECA ®  is a Lightweight green construction material that is 100% inert, non-toxic in nature, ethical, and a sustainable aggregate Some offering thermal insulation by low thermal conductivity coefficient as low as 0.097 W/mK, excellent soundproofing benefits by high acoustic insulation, excellent moisture impermeability, being incompressible under permanent pressure and gravity loads, resistant to decomposing under severe conditions, fire-resistant, having a pH of nearly 7, offering to freeze and melting resistance, offering ease of movement and transportation, ideal aggregate for lightweight backfill and finishing projects, and further offering reduction of dead construction load and lateral earthquake loads in seismic zones.

ECA® is also a green aggregate considered a perfect sweet soil for plants and used as a material for drainage and filtration.