If system furniture is manufactured in China and has been evaluated there, can someone at USGBC or SCS testing review the evaluation for possible approval of compliance with the credit requirements?
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Josh Jacobs
Technical Information & Public Affairs ManagerUL Environment
515 thumbs up
November 20, 2012 - 7:43 am
Severine,
If the furniture is not GREENGUARD Certified, then the LEED reviewer would be able to confirm through a test report if the furniture met the desired levels through option 2. The only thing that you must be sure of in that case is that the furniture in question has been tested per the ANSI/BIFMA M7.1 methodology. In the proposed version of LEED v4 projects outside of the US would also be able to utilize the German AgBB Testing and Evaluation Scheme, but I don't know if enough LEED Reviewers currently know about that at this time.
severine secret
Sustainability expertGo2 Design Studio
16 thumbs up
November 26, 2012 - 5:58 pm
Can someone review a ECC report to see if that could comply for Option 2?
Josh Jacobs
Technical Information & Public Affairs ManagerUL Environment
515 thumbs up
November 27, 2012 - 9:40 am
Severine,
Probably not, as the test report would need to show that the product was tested according to one of the accepted test methodologies in the credit. This means the product would need to be collected, staged, tested, and emissions modeled in compliance with one of the methodologies in the credit. A lot of these product emission methodologies from around the globe are fairly different in most if not all of these areas. In future versions of LEED the USGBC is looking to hopefully address this by allowing some of the other global test methodologies to show compliance for projects outside the US.