Additional Certification Programs Approved for LEED Flooring Credit

LEED 2009 codifies a broadening of what had been a credit for “carpet systems” to a credit for “flooring systems.” The credit, which originally recognized the indoor air quality benefits of using Green Label-certified carpet, was broadened in October 2006 to include resilient and hard-surface flooring materials certified through the FloorScore program (see EBN Dec. 2006).

In LEED 2009, the credit refers to “flooring systems” and expands the certification options to any program that is consistent with the California Department of Health Services standard on which FloorScore is based. Among these added certification options is Greenguard Children & Schools. Precedent suggests that these additional certification programs will be allowed as compliance paths in older versions of LEED as well, although a ruling to this effect has not been released.

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USGBC Approves FloorScore for LEED Credit EBN: Newsbrief - December 2006

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