Sustainable Design through quality

Environmental Awareness through re-utilization.

 Design and manufacturing with an eye for the environment?  Have you considered Urban Forestry?  Reclaimed Materials?  Low VOC finishes?  

The mainstream logging industry has ignored urban logs for the expense of recovering them, imbedded metals, and odd coloring as a result of ground contaminants in urban areas.  Typically logs cut in such areas as a result of development and storm damage are sent to landfills.  Since 2004 I have been recovering these logs and working with their unique properties.  I am familiar with all levels of log handling and processing and am able to take these logs and process them into valuable timber and slabs.  They are kiln-dried, air-dried, and quite often..of impressive proportions.  

Atlanta remains a heavily forested city.  By working with motivated arborists and micro-mills logs are recovered and cut into timber, beams, or slabs rather than sent to the landfill.  Atlanta has no log recovery, salvage, recycling program to support these efforts.  This is a purely grassroots effort that is taping into Atlantas' great untapped resource.  Few cities in the country have the potential to support this activity like Atlanta.

I encourage you to search the internet and learn more about Urban Timber.  You'll see grassroots efforts all across the country that strive to take advantage of this resource.  Browse my galleries and notice that a large proportion of my work is entirely, or partially, built with urban timber.  

We can resource nearly any species that grows naturally in the area.  This market has developed to the point that tree service companies are now maintaining logs in storage rather than dumping so that businesses like mine can process them into lumber.  Bottom line is that the material is now available on demand and can be custom milled to nearly any proportion you may desire.  Zero impact logging that reduces landfill waste.  Lobby your local USGBC so that they too will wake up to this green resource and begin offering incentives to architects and developers.

Species in stock right now include:  

Slabs:  Elm, White Oak, Hickory

Lumber:  White Oak, Red Oak, Cherry, Walnut, Heart Pine, Hickory, and Maple.

Beams:  Beech, Heart Pine, White Oak.

Please inquire how we can serve your desires for a more sustainable future.  

Stephen Evans Furniture, LLC.    stephen@peglegstudio.com    678-571-1645