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Demonstrate your commitment to health and wellness

By understanding impacts on Indoor Air Quality (IAQ)

People spend 90% of their time indoors

Indoor air pollution levels are 2 to 10x times higher than those found outdoors (U.S. EPA)

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Provide products that meet purchasing requirements for safe and healthy indoor environments.

Prevent exposure to harmful indoor air pollution through testing and certification.

Mitigate risks

Comply with chemical regulations, green building specifications, and building codes.

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Understand the indoor air quality impact of your products and buildings. Manufacturers certify products for low chemical emissions, and building owners can utilize our indoor air quality testing services.

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We offer certification programs for building materials, furniture, and electronics, as well as buildings. Empower trust in your products and buildings by working with UL’s experts in indoor air quality.

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Indoor air quality (IAQ) has become increasingly important for building owners and occupants in recent years. With more information available to the public on air quality issues—including the potential negative effects of off-gassing and the evaporation of volatile chemicals and other emissions—it is imperative for interior product manufacturers to focus on eliminating issues associated with their products.

Interior Products have a significant impact on indoor air quality and can emit hundreds of chemicals into the air that building occupants breathe. GREENGUARD Certification helps provide assurance that products are low-emitting and contribute to healthier interiors.

There is a growing list of sustainability programs used by the commercial real estate industry to score environmental performance, including LEED®, BREEAM, FITWEL, Greenglobes, WELL, BOMA Best and others. They all address indoor air quality to one degree or another. This common theme is evidence of the importance of the issue as a core component of sustainability, health and wellness in the built environment.

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Prove your products contribute to healthier indoor environments

Indoor air pollution is a significant source of chemical exposure. Building professionals and consumers want to know that your products will not have a negative impact on indoor air quality. Getting GREENGUARD Certification for your products gives your customers the independent verification they need to have trust.

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Identify raw materials and manufacturing processes that affect your product’s VOC emissions.

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Gives assurance that products designed for use in indoor spaces meet strict chemical emissions limits, which contribute to the creation of healthier interiors. Emission limits align with office furniture industry criteria.

GREENGUARD Gold

Offers stricter certification criteria, considers safety factors to account for sensitive individuals (such as children and the elderly), and ensures that a product is acceptable for use in environments such as schools and healthcare facilities. Emission limits meet and exceed CDPH Standard Method.

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See GREENGUARD Certified products on SPOT, UL’s sustainable product database

GREENGUARD Certification is an internationally recognized product emissions certification labeling program for manufacturers of low-emitting indoor products, furnishings, and materials. Products can be certified under two different standards.

Conduct screening tests on representative material samples to determine chemicals of interest and the likelihood of meeting the GREENGUARD criteria.

Conduct certification testing to represent a family of products and demonstrate that your products emit fewer chemicals and contribute to healthier indoor air.

Certification awarded once certification testing is completed, you may upload product listings in the UL SPOT® database to obtain certificates, promote certification, and access marketing and training resources

Maintaining Certification Certified products are tested on a routine basis. The GREENGUARD Certification program is structured to scale with your product line. Our experts help you certify new products prior to market introduction and can help give you insight into how product material changes may affect your certification status.

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Verify your healthy building with confidence

Lower your building’s operating costs, increase your NOI, lower your risks, and make your buildings more marketable. UL provides the industry’s most trusted IAQ certification.

UL’s independent, third-party building assessments can help to create and maintain a healthy productive workplace by implementing and documenting indoor air quality best management practices

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Profit and save with Indoor Air Quality programs

Tenant retention

Studies show that tenants and employees value indoor environmental quality over all other environmental or sustainability amenities offered in the workplace.

Manage risk

Companies who “manage what they measure” have far lower exposure to liability than those who only address issues when they cause harm—real or perceived.

Increase your building’s value

Our programs document improvements made over time, resulting in a higher value and a smoother due diligence process at sale. Purchasers prefer buildings that have been consistently well maintained.

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