I am wondering if anyone has been successful in verifying compliance of flooring systems under Option 1 and Option 2 on the same project. This would mean some flooring products have met FloorScore requirements while other flooring products have me the CA 01350 requirements. I was looking at Forbo products and noticed they are not FloorScore certified but meet the CHPS requirements. Thanks in advance. I have a call into Forbo too.
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Josh Jacobs
Technical Information & Public Affairs ManagerUL Environment
515 thumbs up
August 16, 2011 - 4:26 pm
John - you should be able to obtain the credit by providing proof that the products used are low-emitting per CA 01350 criteria/testing. So yes, if Forbo has that proven, then they would help you qualify for that point. The reasoning behind this is that the Floorscore chemical emission criteria (page 7, 9, and 26 of http://scscertified.com/docs/SCS-EC10.2-2007.pdf) is simply CA 01350 criteria for minimization of individual chemicals (http://www.cal-iaq.org/vocs/standard-method-for-voc-emissions-testing-an...). GREENGUARD Children & Schools certified flooring would also help show verification as the criteria for the certification is not only the minimization of the 35 individual chemicals specified in CA 01350, but 330 additional individual chemicals and a Total Volatile Organic Compound limit on all other VOCs emitting from the product (page 4 of http://greenguard.org/Libraries/GG_Documents/GGPS_002_GREENGUARDChildren...). For transparency purposes, I am the technical information and public affairs manager for GREENGUARD Environmental Institute.
John Drigot
Design/LEED SpecialistThe Neenan Company
185 thumbs up
August 17, 2011 - 4:43 pm
Josh,
Thanks for the quick and succinct reply. It all makes sense and I think from this point forward I'll be chasing the CA 01350 standard to make my life easier.
Lauren Sparandara
Sustainability ManagerGoogle
LEEDuser Expert
997 thumbs up
October 7, 2011 - 12:26 pm
Hi John,
I agree. You should be able to comply with multiple routes, whatever is most applicable to the products you are hoping to specify.