Green Verification Reports
APA Green Verification Reports (GR) help building officials and design professionals determine a product's eligibility for points under recognized green building standards. APA issues these reports to document the compliance of an engineered wood product that is manufactured under a quality program audited by APA to specific international, national, or industry recognized green building standards.
APA Green Verification Reports are assigned based on product classes, as shown below:
- L-Series: Products manufactured from lumber, veneer or other wood base for use as lumber or timber substitutes, such as glulam, I-joists, and structural composite lumber (SCL)
- N-Series: Products manufactured from non-veneer (mat-formed) substrates, such as oriented strand board (OSB)
- V-Series: Products manufactured from all veneers, such as plywood
- C-Series: Products manufactured from composite substrates, such as hardboards, mixed with at least a veneer lamina
L Series
- GR-L252, I Beams I-Joist, International Beams, Inc.
- GR-L274, Nordic Engineered Wood Nordic Joist
- GR-L294, Nordic Engineered Wood Nordic Lam
- GR-L298, Western Structures Glulam Products
- GR-L306, Nordic Engineered Wood Nordic X-Lam
Related Information
Green Building Fact Sheets:
• Trends in Wood Buildings (213 KB PDF)
• Wood and Green Building - Why using wood from North American forests is a sustainable choice (217 KB PDF)
• U.S. Wood Products - Good for jobs, rural communities and the environment (220 KB PDF)
CORRIM (Consortium for Research on Renewable Industrial Materials) fact sheets:
• Maximizing Forest Contributions to Carbon Mitigation, Fact sheet 5 (416 KB PDF)
• Product and Process Environmental Improvement Analysis for Buildings, Fact sheet 6 (166 KB PDF)
Wood and Green Building fact sheets produced by the Wood Promotion Network:
• LEED® vs. Green Globes™, Form WP G330 (778 KB PDF)
• Home Builder Guidelines, Form WP G335 (769 KB PDF)
• The Role of Life Cycle Assessment, Form WP G340 (901 KB PDF)
• Using Wood to Fight Climate Change, Form WP G345 (773 KB PDF)
Related Publication:
Wood: Sustainable Building Solutions, Form F305 (3 Mb)