Terrazzo is a highly durable flooring material that is made with marble chips or other fine aggregates, held in a binder of cement or epoxy-resin. It is used in high traffic installations such as hospitals and education facilities for its resilience and longevity. The composition of Terrazzo allows for the incorporation of post-consumer and pre-consumer recycle content such as glass, marble and cement.

DEXterra. Designed by DEX.

DEX was founded in 1999 by Craig Smith and Lauriel Leonard. They have focused on creating concrete products that show off the flexibility of concrete while reducing the environmental impact of the material. DEX uses a high-purity white silica fume pozzolin to displace a portion of cement in the concrete production. Silica fume is collected as a byproduct from other industrial processes, which means DEX is taking reducing waste by upcycling waste.

DEXterra is comprised of decorative aggregates that are bound with cement which is then exposed and polished with industrial diamond polishing equipment. Many of the available aggregates are locally recycled post-consumer glass from the Atlanta area. Rather than recycling glass by melting it down, recycled aggregate is simply cleaned, crushed, and mixed with the binder, thus reducing the energy needed to recycle the glass. DEXterra comes in a wide variety of colors with a diversity of aggregate sizes that range from a monotone surface to a highly patterned surface.