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The Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America joined with Allergy Standards Limited to create the asthma & allergy friendly® Certification Program. This program helps people make informed purchases for a healthier home. If products pass these tests, they earn the CERTIFIED asthma & allergy friendly®mark.

At CRI, our purpose is to educate consumers, commercial stakeholders and the industry about carpet and rugs. From health benefits and environmental efforts to trends and advice, we are here to inform our members and their customers. CRI initiatives help protect air quality, carpet's lifespan and lead to smarter buying decisions on cleaners and equipment.

The Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute, a non-profit organization, administers the Cradle to Cradle Certified™ Product Standard, which was gifted to the Institute by its Founders, William McDonough and Dr. Michael Braungart, in 2010.

Berkeley Analytical developed and operates the ClearChem™ program for its customers free of charge. ClearChem facilitates the creation of ISO 14021 compliant self-declared environmental product claims for interior building products that meet all of the requirements of USGBC’s LEED v4 Low-Emitting Material credit. ClearChem declarations are supported by a freely available, comprehensive standard that emphasizes transparency by requiring all product claims to be supported by testing.

The Embodied Carbon in Construction Calculator (EC3) tool is a free tool that allows benchmarking, assessment and reductions in embodied carbon per material category, focused on the upfront (stage A1-A3) supply chain emissions of construction materials. The EC3 tools was incubated at the Carbon Leadership Forum with input from nearly 50 industry partners.

ENERGY STAR® is the government-backed symbol for energy efficiency, providing simple, credible, and unbiased information that consumers and businesses rely on to make well-informed decisions. Thousands of industrial, commercial, utility, state, and local organizations—including more than 40 percent of the Fortune 500®—rely on their partnership with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to deliver cost-saving energy efficiency solutions.

Global GreenTag International Pty Ltd operates the Global GreenTag certification program, an internationally recognized, multi-award winning Type 1 (Third Party) Ecolabelling, Product Certification, Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) and Product health Declaration (PhD) program operator based in Australia, but with offices and representation also in South Africa (Africa), Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Malaysia. Global GreenTag is one of the Australian built environment sector’s Top 100 Most Trusted Brands and the only green building sector Certification Mark approved by the Australian Government regulator the ACCC.

The Global GreenTag Certification program, is internationally recognized, with formal recognition in WELL™, BREEAM International, Green Star^®, LOTUS^®, MyHIJAU and GreenMark International and compliant with credit requirements in LEED^® (PhDs and EPDs), and BREEAM^® (EPDs).

GreenCircle Certified, LLC was established to ensure specificity in third-party certification after encountering many unsubstantiated claims in the marketplace. Since 2009, GreenCircle has offered forward-thinking companies a competitive advantage by providing specific, third-party certification of environmental claims. GreenCircle's rigorous evaluation process provides independent verification that claims of sustainable aspects of products and operations are valid. Manufacturers, suppliers, regulators, occupants, and consumers can be assured that products labeled with the GreenCircle Certified mark have been thoroughly assessed and their claims verified to applicable standards.

The HPD Collaborative has developed and maintains the Health Product Declaration Open Standard. Today the HPD Open Standard, a voluntary, stakeholder consensus standard, has become established as the leading industry standard for reporting building product content and associated health information. It is incorporated as a reporting tool in many leading certification programs, such as LEED v4 and WELL, and is also the foundation for industry harmonization efforts to establish a single method that can simplify reporting – and also improve the accuracy, consistency and reliability – of information about building products and health.

The International Living Future Institute (ILFI) is a nonprofit working to build an ecologically-minded, restorative world for all people. Using principles of social and environmental justice, ILFI seeks to counter climate change by pushing for an urban environment free of fossil fuels. ILFI runs the Living Building Challenge, which is the world’s most rigorous green building standard, not to mention several other programs: the Living Product Challenge, the Living Community Challenge, and the Reveal, Declare and Just labels. These programs develop a green framework for living in a 21st-century world.

For more than 130 years, companies around the world have depended on Intertek to help ensure the quality and safety of their products, processes and systems. Intertek is a Total Quality Assurance provider to industries worldwide. Through our global network of state-of-the-art facilities and industry-leading technical expertise we provide innovative and bespoke Assurance, Testing, Inspection and Certification services to customers. We provide a systemic approach to supporting our customers’ Quality Assurance efforts in each of the areas of their operations including R&D, raw materials sourcing, components suppliers, manufacturing, transportation, distribution and retail channels, and consumer management.

The MAS Certified Green® program integrates the rigorous product testing requirements of the CDPH Standard Method V1.1, the BIFMAM7.1 Test Method and Formaldehyde emission testing requirements of the Cal EPA – ARB with the conservative chemical emission limits referenced by the USGBC LEED, CHPS and CARB organizations. There simply is not a more conservative or rigorous IAQ - product testing program available. The MAS Certified Green® program is ISO/TEC 17025 and 17065 compliant and recognized by LEED, CDPH,BIFMA and CHPS.

Matter is a robust Material Management software that helps AEC and Owners (AECO) increase building material sourcing intelligence and streamline material management efforts. Matter redefines how building material knowledge is tracked, from design through operations, enabling AECO to become more intelligent with every project. Matter helps project teams save time and avoid the repetition of costly mistakes. Most importantly, Matter helps organize and increase AECO’s most valuable assets: knowledge and expertise. Origin provides on-demand updates to Matter.

NSF International certifies products, services and management systems for the building materials and interior products industries to standards for quality, safety, performance, efficiency and sustainability. We can also verify your product performance or environmental claims such as recycled content, energy efficiency and water conservation to name a few. Independent third-party certification and validation from NSF reinforces your product or services claims, verifies management systems performance and provides market credibility.

SCS Global Services is a trusted leader in third-party environmental, sustainability and food quality certification, auditing, testing and standards development. SCS Global Services partners with companies, government agencies, and stakeholders worldwide to identify and drive practices, policies and processes that advance the goals of sustainable development and give innovators a competitive advantage.

Shenzhen Institute of Building Research Co., Ltd (IBR) commits to the research on development law of urban ecological livability, conducts scientific analysis of special planning and layout, innovates 1.5-Tier Development Mode, rapidly develops by leaps and bounds, and shapes up a well-established urban green development and innovation service system.

Toxnot advances chemical transparency in the global supply chain, so you can design and sell better products. We love collaborating with our customers to help drive innovation. We are always seeking input for new features to make our offerings as complete as necessary to drive greener chemistry forward.

Toxnot helps manufacturers and suppliers reduce costs and risks by streamlining safer product design and development. Toxnot is the first transparency software that is fully accessible to all business users regardless of company size, and is the only source for free access to GreenScreen List Translator scores. Toxnot believes third party hazard data helps promote transparency.

In its role as an independent, neutral third party, TÜV Rheinland tests, monitors, develops, promotes and certifies products, equipment, processes and management systems as well as services on the basis of statutory specifications and other relevant performance benchmarks and standards. In addition, it qualifies experts and provides training to people for numerous companies and industrial sectors and areas of life. In specific countries, the group also performs tasks to reduce the burden on the state, for example, in the technical testing of motor vehicles and industrial plants as well as checking driving license tests.

Recognized for their leading-edge expertise in green building and LEED® certification, Josée Lupien, LEED Fellow, BD+C & ID+C, President, and Jean DesRosiers, LEED AP BD+C, Vice-President, have brought together a team of experts with in-depth knowledge of environmental analyses of construction materials, as well as extensive experience in the implementation of green building projects.

With more than 30 years of experience in the manufacturing industry and having worked with numerous architects, engineers and building contractors, Ms. Lupien and Mr. DesRosiers decided to invest in the green building sector by establishing Vertima in 2008. Today, thanks to its team of experienced and specialized professionals, Vertima actively supports manufacturers and stakeholders involved in green building and sustainable construction projects and, more specifically, LEED® certification.

WaterSense labeled products are backed by independent, third–party certification and meet EPA’s specifications for water efficiency and performance. When you use these water–saving products in your home or business, you can expect exceptional performance, savings on your water bills, and assurance that you are saving water for future generations.