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Updated: July 8th, 2008 05:26 PM EDT

Making Greener Choices

decorative concrete
James Schwartz
The office space at CONCRETEWORKS Design features polished floors, acid stained with densifiers and water-based finish coats.
CONCRETEWORKS mosaic
James Schwartz
This mosaic at CONCRETEWORKS Design took owner James Schwartz seven weeks to create. The area is cut into 6,912 1-in. squares, hand-colored with 47 colors and sealed with UV protected water-based sealers.

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Schwartz adds the water-based products will also play a major part in the green building movement. "In the last year or two, manufacturers have produced some pretty savvy water-based stuff," he says. "We all got bit about a decade or so ago with water-based - it just wasn't durable. But that's changing."

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