Greenguard Certification

FloorScore certification thresholds are more stringent than the basic Greenguard certification--they are more in line with the thresholds in Greenguard Children and Schools. If these are products are certified under that program you may well be able to get them approved as "equivalent" to FloorScore, or under Option 2, in the credit since GG Children & Schools does include the CA DHS protocol thresholds.

Just as a clarification to the earlier post regarding GREENGUARD vs FloorScore. Nadav is correct that GREENGUARD would not be considered showing the same compliance with FloorScore and a product with simply GREENGUARD Certification should not help you attain the credit. But USGBC has written up a CIR regarding GREENGUARD Children & Schools being compliant with EQc4.3.

This is due to the fact that GREENGUARD Children & Schools has individual limits on around 360 chemicals and a total volatile organic chemical limit of 220. FloorScore is simply a certification stamp for a CA 01350 test on resilient flooring. CA 01350 and therefore FloorScore only has individual chemical limits on 35 chemicals (and 35 chemicals and their limits are within the 360 that GREENGUARD Children & Schools looks at). With over 10,000 individual chemicals that can come off of man made products only looking at 35 and saying a product is low-emitting can be less then protective.

It's 2 1/2 years later. Is your comment above still applicable?

Catherine,

The main differences now is that GREENGUARD Children & Schools is now called UL GREENGUARD Gold and that the emission levels for CA 01350 compliance (and therefore UL GREENGUARD Gold and FloorScore) for formaldehyde have been lowered. So all of the above basically still applies.