Carbon Reduction in the Built Environment

Armstrong Carbon Reduction Commitment

Transforming the design and building of spaces fit for the future

Armstrong recognizes the building industry’s impact on the environment—and the potential outcome for our communities. To ensure a healthy future, Armstrong is embracing carbon reduction as an end-to-end solution that touches every stage of the building lifecycle, from design and material selection to operational efficiency and end-of-life management.

Reducing Operational and Embodied Carbon

Armstrong is committed to helping you reduce your carbon footprint.

Optimizing the Building Lifecycle

Embodied carbon refers to greenhouse gas emissions from manufacturing, transportation, installation, maintenance, and end of life of building materials. Learn more about reducing embodied carbon in buildings.

Saving Energy

Operational carbon refers to the energy used to operate a building, including heating and cooling, ventilation, lighting, and more. We can minimize operational carbon output with more efficient building design and materials.

Facilitating Sustainability Goals

Sustainability standards and goals are in the foundation of modern building projects—literally. We can work side-by-side with you on LEED projects and help you meet the health and wellness goals determined by the WELL Building Standard.

Building Design and Material Selection

Creating Products for the Next Generation of Buildings

New ULTIMA Low Embodied Carbon (LEC) ceilings are the lowest embodied carbon mineral fiber acoustical ceilings available.*  Compared to standard ULTIMA ceiling panels, ULTIMA LEC delivers a 43% reduction in embodied carbon, representing the company’s commitment to sustainable innovation, the TOTAL ACOUSTICS ceiling panel utilizes new technology that includes wood-generated biochar. To enhance its commitment to decarbonization, Armstrong has purchased carbon offsets equivalent to the remaining carbon emissions associated with the product to make all ULTIMA LEC sales carbon neutral through 2026, while additional product innovation work continues to reduce the carbon emissions associated with the product.

ULTIMA TEMPLOK ceiling panels reduce energy consumption and the associated carbon emissions in buildings operations. By integrating the technology of Phase Change Material (PCM) with Armstrong mineral fiber ceiling panels, ULTIMA TEMPLOK panels can reduce energy costs and consumption by as much as 15%.**

Creating Products for the Next Generation of Buildings

New ULTIMA Low Embodied Carbon (LEC) ceilings are the lowest embodied carbon mineral fiber acoustical ceilings available.*  Compared to standard ULTIMA ceiling panels, ULTIMA LEC delivers a 43% reduction in embodied carbon, representing the company’s commitment to sustainable innovation, the TOTAL ACOUSTICS ceiling panel utilizes new technology that includes wood-generated biochar. To enhance its commitment to decarbonization, Armstrong has purchased carbon offsets equivalent to the remaining carbon emissions associated with the product to make all ULTIMA LEC sales carbon neutral through 2026, while additional product innovation work continues to reduce the carbon emissions associated with the product.

ULTIMA TEMPLOK ceiling panels reduce energy consumption and the associated carbon emissions in buildings operations. By integrating the technology of Phase Change Material (PCM) with Armstrong mineral fiber ceiling panels, ULTIMA TEMPLOK panels can reduce energy costs and consumption by as much as 15%.**

Low Embodied Carbon Ceilings

Help reduce the carbon footprint of the built environment with the most sustainable, high-performance ceiling panel

TEMPLOK Energy Saving Ceilings

Introducing Templok Energy Saving Ceilings which use advanced Phase Change Material (PCM) to naturally increase thermal mass providing year-round comfort requiring less heating and cooling energy.

Designing For Sustainability

PROJECTWORKS is a complimentary service that can help you reduce waste by optimizing project layouts, saving material and cost at the jobsite.

Designing For Sustainability

PROJECTWORKS is a complimentary service that can help you reduce waste by optimizing project layouts, saving material and cost at the jobsite.

Ceilings Recycling Program

Armstrong Ceilings Recycling Program

Since 1999, the Armstrong Ceilings Recycling Program has been helping customers reduce waste. Watch how we’re continuing to make commercial renovation projects less wasteful in 2024.

25 Years and Over 200,000,000 Square Feet Recycled

Armstrong Ceilings Recycling Program is here to help you every step of the way from registration – to transportation – to new ceiling solutions for your project.

  • The Armstrong Ceilings Recycling Program reduces construction waste and carbon emissions associated with on commercial renovation projects.
  • 25 years after its inception, the nation’s first ceilings recycling program has diverted more than 200 million square feet of old ceiling materials from the landfill.
  • The program helps our customers meet their own waste-reduction targets, and we provide a diversion savings calculator to directly measure the resulting environmental impact and savings.   

Our Sustainability Strategy

Armstrong is committed to driving positive change for a healthy world, starting with the built environment.

To meet this commitment, Armstrong’s sustainability strategy is aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs)—a collection of 17 interlinked global goals on a working deadline of 2030.

Our three sustainability pillars—Healthy and Circular Products, Healthy Planet, Thriving People and Communities— help us identify and address the challenges and opportunities ahead by outlining 2030 Goals and Targets. This serves as our roadmap to operationalize our sustainability initiatives into all areas of our business.

*   Per EC3 tool data available 2/1/24. Ultima Low Embodied Carbon Ceiling Panels (A1-A3) 0.187 Global Warming Potential, including biogenic carbon [kg CO2 eq./ft2]
** Cooling energy savings according to research estimates measured in lab tests. Results may vary.