California Dep. of HAAP...."Not Found Page"

Check the link that's on the "Product Certification and Testing" strategy page in the upper right of this page -- or follow this link.

Has anybody documented compliance with this "California Department of Health Services Standard Practice for the Testing of Volatile Organic Emissions from Various Souorces Using Small-Scale Environmental Chambers"? it was a requirement under LEED for Schools 2007, but USGBC has retired this requirement in newer versions.
The problem is that almost no product list any reference to this standard in their product data, and the standard itself is very complex in its requirements; impossible to prove compliance with the information provided by manufacturers.
CHPS has started an online lsit of compliant products, as mentioned by Tristan above. But this list has been discontinued and the remaining list is very poor.

Does anybody believe USGBC would grant an alternative compliance path by using the requirements of newer versions of LEED?

Thank you

Product listings that comply with the CA 01350 small chamber testing such as doors and furniture can be found on Scientific Certfication Systems website under Green Products. You can search by the CA 01350 standard and all products 3rd party certfied by SCS to that standard will be listed.

I am the technical information & public affairs manager for GREENGUARD Environmental Institute and GREENGUARD Children & Schools Certification shows compliance to the CA 01350 standard. These can be found on www.greenguard.org and there are over 200 individual adhesives in the free product guide that would show compliance to the CA 01350 requirements.

Josh,

According to LEEDUser the referenced standard for LEED for Schools 2009 (California Department of Health Services Standard Practice for the Testing of Volatile Organic Emissions from Various Sources Using Small-Scale Environmental Chambers, including 2004 Addenda) supersedes the Special Environmental Requirements, Specifications Section 01350, developed by the State of California for screening building materials - please see the link below.

http://www.leeduser.com/strategy/product-certification-and-testing-leed-...

We were going to pursue the LEED NC 2009 requirements for EQc4.1-4.4 but we are finding that quite a few building products that have GREENGUARD Children & Schools Certification do not have documentation to show compliance to the LEED NC 2009 standards.

The LEED Reference Guide does not state GREENGUARD Children & Schools Certification meets the California Department of Health Services Standard Practice for the Testing of Volatile Organic Emissions from Various Sources Using Small-Scale Environmental Chambers, including 2004 Addenda.

The GREENGUARD website states "The GREENGUARD Children & Schools Certification Program's requirements comply with the State of California’s Department of Public Health Services Standard Practice for Specification Section 01350 (California Section 01350) for testing chemical emissions from building products used in schools and other environments. As such, GREENGUARD Children & Schools Certified products can be used to earn valuable credits in the CHPS Best Practices Manual for K-12 schools, the US Green Building Council's LEED ® Green Building Rating Systems, the Green Guide for Healthcare, the NAHB Green Building Guidelines, Green Globes, Regreen and many other building codes, standards and specifications."

How can we connect the dots between the LEED Schools 2009 referenced standard, CA 01350 and GREENGUARD Children & Schools? We need to know that if we specify products with GREENGUARD Children & Schools Certification that they will be accepted by the GBCI review teams.

Thanks, Rebecca

Rebecca,

All of the programs listed on the GREENGUARD website have accepted GREENGUARD Children & Schools for their product emission requirements (specifically the ones that require CA 01350). The state of California's Dept of Public Health: Indoor Air Quality program lists GREENGUARD as a certification for their programs: http://www.cal-iaq.org/vocs/voc-links and many LEED projects have used many different types of products that have received IEQ Credit 4 points. As for the products 'not having documentation', if a product is not listed on the GREENGUARD website as being compliant with GREENGUARD Children & Schools (whose standard is listed here: http://greenguard.org/Libraries/GG_Documents/GGPS002GREENGUARDChildrenan...) then it should not be assumed as compliant.