Rating System

LEED BD+C: New Construction, LEED BD+C: Schools, LEED ID+C: Commercial Interiors, LEED BD+C: Core and Shell, LEED O+M: Existing Buildings

Rating System Version

v2 - LEED 2.2, v2 - Schools 2007, v2 - LEED 2.0, v2 - LEED 2.0, v3 - LEED 2008

Inquiry

The question pertains to a specific carpet line that was manufactured by Bloomsburg Carpet in Bloomsburg, PA. Our project attempted this point in the CI version on the previous floor but was rejected on the grounds that the carpet was Green Label Certified by the CRI, but not Plus. Currently we are using 3 different carpets on the project. Two are manufactured by Lees and are Green Label Plus Certified. The third is as I said Bloomsburg Broadloom. The full line is Tuva Symmetry V840-2 / 15C&R Dove (Zeftron enviro 6ix Nylon 6). On the CRI Website I can see that this line did attain the Plus certification. After speaking with the president and owner of Bloomsburg Carpet, I was informed that after the testing was complete, the certification was awarded in early August of 2007, about the same time the carpet was being installed on our project. He also mentioned that the manufacturing process has not changed in the slightest from the time our carpet was manufactured to the point of certification. Does the time gap that occurred between the carpet being manufactured and the point of certification exclude us from attaining this point, even if the manufacturing process has not changed? Back up from the manufacturing company can be provided at your request.