Systems Furniture Panel Fabric

The criteria are for the whole furniture or whole chair. You can show this either by testing the different combinations of materials into the whole product, or by making sure that the alternative fabric does not show higher emissions than the original fabric.
I am not familiar with how Greenguard certifiers will handle this issue, but this here is the approach the would make sense from the testing viewpoint.

Reinhard has hit the nail on the head. The products that are certified by GREENGUARD in either of our low-emitting product programs are as they come out of the manufacturers facility. If you are using a different fabric then what the manufacturer puts on them or has specified, then the full product is not technically certified. I can not speak for other certification programs, but that is how we would look at it.

If you use that fabric and panel together frequently in projects then I would suggest a CA 01350 test at a qualified product emission lab. This test would entail you submitting a representative of the final full product. This would include the panel system that you are looking to place in the LEED space(s) with the fabric that you intend to use. You would then receive a lab report that hopefully confims that the final full system passes the CA 01350 requirements. This lab report could be used to show that the final product that you are installing passes the criteria for EQc4.5. As product emission testing involves a complex process you may want to get some quotes though and do some cost analysis of garnering 1 point.

Of course you could always just work with the panel system manufacturer and see if they can get a fabric that they currently use (and is on certified products) that matches what you are hoping for in the space.

Some of the labs that are qualified to do this test are listed here: http://www.cal-iaq.org/vocs/voc-links

Sorry - I thought that this was in reference to a LEED for Schools question and now that I look closer it is for CI. Let me correct some issues in my above post.

You would need to show that the complete product - panel system & your choosen fabric - passes the GREENGUARD Certification Criteria (which can be found here: http://greenguard.org/Libraries/GG_Documents/GGPS_001_GREENGUARD_Standar...) by using the GREENGUARD Test Methodology (which can be found here: http://greenguard.org/Libraries/GG_Documents/GGTM_P066_BUILDINGMATERIALS...). Their are two labs that I know have the GREENGUARD Test Method in their ISO 17025 scope: Air Quality Sciences (www.aqs.com) and Berkeley Analytical Associates (www.berkeleyanalytical.com). This would not have to pass CA 01350 criteria.

You could also have the complete product go through a BIFMA Emission Test. This would entail testing the product in accordance with BIFMA M7.1-2007 so that you can show that it passes criteria that is listed in BIFMA X7.1-2007. The labs for this test can be found here: http://www.bifma.org/standards/testlabs.html

This is just to add that also Eurofins Product Testing A/S has the GREENGUARD Test Method in its ISO 17025 accreditation scope (www.eurofins.com/voc-testing).

This raises a good question;

Option 1 of this credit as currently written requires Greenguard(TM) certification, not just testing by an independent laboratory that includes the Greenguard test method within the scope of their ISO 17025 accreditation.

The Greenguard documents referenced also include the Greenguard certification program requirements for laboratories. These call for audits by the Greenguard Environmental Institute (GEI), approval by GEI of the lab's quality assurance project plan, and other details in addition to ISO 17025 accreditation.

So to be clear, testing of the complete product (with chosen fabric) by Berkeley Analytical Associates or Eurofins, even following the Greenguard test method, would not be sufficient to attain Greenguard(TM) certification, and would therefore not meet option 1 of this credit, correct?

However, while Air Quality Sciences (the Greenguard partner laboratory) is still the only laboratory in North America that is allowed by Greenguard to test for Greenguard certification under Option 1, Option 2 uses the American National Standards (ANSI/BIFMA M7.1 and X7.1), which are open to multiple, competing laboratories and certifiers.

Therefore, testing of the complete product (with chosen fabric) by Berkeley Analytical Associates, Eurofins, Air Quality Sciences, or other qualified laboratories following the ANSI/BIFMA standards could demonstrate compliance under Option 2.