Carpet products seem to typically have Green Label Plus certificates that refer to the carpet backing being used, rather than any particular carpet style or product name. This can certainly make it hard to connect the carpet style/line to the certificate. We have to rely on the manufacturer through the product datahseet to connect those dots for us. It also means that many different carpet styles can have the same backing and therefore use the same certificate. In previous rating systems, we have always listed all the carpet used and referenced the same GLP and never seen a commment on this issue.
I just got a review response back on the Low Emitting flooring category that takes issue with the fact that the certificate doesn't list the specific carpet style and indicates that "each certificate may only be used once for the one product that it applies to". This makes no sense to me. FloorScore certs often list numerous products on one cert.
We obviously don't have any control over how Green Label Plus identifies carpet on a GLP cert. If for example you have five different Shaw carpet styles that all use the same backing and therefore the same GLP, are you just entering the carpet backing name to match the cert and lumping every different carpet style/line product into that one row? You might be able to do that on Low Emitting (though we never have before), but what about recycled content where they will all be different? Can anyone shed any light on this?
Emily Purcell
Sustainable Design LeadCannonDesign
LEEDuser Expert
371 thumbs up
June 17, 2020 - 5:44 pm
I feel like I say this a lot in reply to your posts but....that comment doesn't make sense and should be corrected. A reviewer should know how the GLP certificates correspond to commonly used products. It sounds like they were incorrectly applying the logic of the EPD/HPD credit to this one. Not to mention they should know that all Shaw products meet the VOC requirements and therefore give you the beneift of the doubt on the precise documentation. I wish I could advise how to fill this into the spreadsheet to satisfy the reviewer but that's tough to do when you haven't done anything wrong...
Michelle Rosenberger
PartnerArchEcology
522 thumbs up
June 17, 2020 - 6:15 pm
Hi Emily,
Thanks for the response. I also thought it sounded like a cross over with the EPD/HPD thinking. I'll have a call and sort it out with the reviewer, but I wanted to make sure that I wasn't missing something.