Environmental Attribute Guide

The product has met the indoor air quality (IAQ) certification standard for hard surface flooring materials, adhesives, and underlayments. This seal indicates that the product has been independently certified by SCS to comply with the volatile organic compound emissions criteria of the California Section 01350 standard. Learn about our engineered wood flooring products’ and Super-Strand Bamboo products’ indoor air quality

LEED^® certification provides independent, third-party verification that a building, home, or community was designed and built using strategies aimed at achieving high performance in key areas of human and environmental health, including sustainable site development, water savings, energy efficiency, materials selection, and indoor environmental quality. Learn more about LEED^® here.

The product reduces environmental effects during initial project decision-making by demonstrating a reduction in materials use through life-cycle assessment.

The product’s life-cycle information is available and has environmentally, economically, and socially preferable life-cycle impacts.

The product uses materials with recycled content such that the sum of post-consumer recycled content plus one-half of the pre-consumer content constitutes at least 10% (based on cost) of the total value of materials in the project. The sum of post-consumer recycled content plus one-half of the pre-consumer content must constitute at least 20% of total materials costs.

The product uses rapidly renewable building materials and products (made from plants that are typically harvested within a 10-year cycle or shorter) for 2.5% of the total value of all building materials and products used in the project, based on cost.

The product uses a minimum of 50% of wood-based materials and products, which are certified in accordance with the Forest Stewardship Council’s (FSC) Principles and Criteria, for wood building components. These components include, but are not limited to, structural framing and general dimensional framing, flooring, subflooring, wood doors, and finishes.

The composite wood and agrifiber products such as engineered wood, particleboard, medium density fiberboard (MDF), plywood, wheatboard, strawboard, panel substrates and door cores contain no added urea-formaldehyde resins.

For 75% of the regularly occupied floor area, the product meets a ratio of average ceiling illuminance and average wall surface illuminance (excluding fenestration) to average work  plane or surface illuminance that does not exceed 1:10.

Timber that comes from plantations that are not established at the expense of natural forest and do not use genetically-modified organisms (GMOs).

Repurposes logs that were salvaged from old orchards that were being replanted, re-milling them into new products.

Recycled “waste wood”, such as sawdust, veneer backing boards or peeler cores that is repurposed and re-milled into new products. Qualifies as FSC Recycled & USGB LEED MR4.

Remanufactured timbers that come from the deconstruction of old buildings, specifically doors, windows or flooring that is then re-milled into new products. Qualifies as FSC® Recycled & USGB LEED MR4.

Engineered wood flooring products that contain no – less than 0.001ppm (parts per million) – added urea-formaldehyde in the glues. Tesoro Woods uses a newly developed two-part, EPI glue system that contains no added urea-formaldehyde.

The 3rd Party Certified Low-VOC product emit less than 0.005ppm (parts per million) volatile organic compound chemicals.

The 3rd Party Certified No-VOC product emit less than 0.001ppm (parts per million) volatile organic compound chemicals.

Durable engineered finish composed of plant oils and waxes, with just enough highly refined mineral spirits for easy application. This finish will never crack, blister, or flake off.

The product is not composed of wood and is not from trees. Examples of alternative to fiber to wood options include bamboo, palm, and cork.

The material used to make the products takes an average of 15 years or less to regrow. Qualifies as USGB LEED MR6.

From growth to end of life the product releases the same amount of carbon dioxide as it absorbs. MOSO Bamboo Products’ bamboo produces 1.0 CO2 eq/kg and absorbs 1.3 CO2 eq/kg.

European classification. The product has been treated with fire retardant treatment and produces little smoke. Comparable to a Class B flame-spread rating.

The flooring product contains no – less than 0.001ppm (parts per million) – added urea-formaldehyde in the glues. Tesoro Woods uses a newly developed two-part, EPI glue system that contains no added urea-formaldehyde.

The 3rd Party Certified Low-VOC product emit less than 0.005ppm (parts per million) volatile organic compound chemicals.

The 3rd Party Certified No-VOC product emit less than 0.001ppm (parts per million) volatile organic compound chemicals.