Flooring

Green purchasing guidance for flooring construction materials, including: bamboo, stone, terrazzo, rubber, tile, underlay, linoleum, and wood.

Required specifications

The following have been identified as green specifications relevant to the good/services as minimum mandatory requirements. These would not be part of a scored exhibit. If you are using the Washington state procurement manual templates, the following should be inserted in the relevant document that describes the product or performance requirements.

  • Be tested and certified compliant with California’s Section 01350 emissions test based on the CA Department of Public Health (CDPH) Standard Method v1.2-2017 or the most current version.
  • The product shall currently have at least one of the following third-party certifications:
    • SCS FloorScore
    • UL GREENGUARD Gold
    • Cradle to Cradle Product Certificate or Material Health Certificate: v3.1 at the Gold level or higher OR v4.0 at the Silver level or higher
    • A third party-verified Health Product Declaration (HPD) or Declare Label verifying compliance
  • Be free of ortho-phthalates. Demonstrated by submitting:
    • Cradle to Cradle Certified or Material Health Certificate: v3.1 at the Gold level or higher OR v4.0 at the Silver level or higher
    • A Declare LBC Red List-Free label, or
    • SCS Assure Certified
    • Documentation of another third-party verified transparency standard stating that the product does not contain intentionally added ortho-phthalates Test data that demonstrated the individual or sum of ortho-phthalates using test method CPSC-CH-C1001-09.4 does not exceed 1000 ppm.
  • Be attached mechanically without a chemical adhesive:
    • Come with a peel-and-stick adhesive, or
    • wet-applied flooring adhesive
  • Be free of coal fly ash, vinyl composite tile (VCT, which requires floor polish and strippers), PFAS, tire-derived recycled rubber, brominated and chlorinated flame retardants, and antimicrobial surface treatments or materials

Laws, rules, and executive orders

These laws, rules, and executive orders are the basis for these specifications: