Ratings & Policy
Find where a product credential earns points or counts, and what each rating tool or policy accepts.
Pick any rating tools or policies and any credentials. The results narrow to what you pick.
Australia and New Zealand
Which credential?
- Aluminium Stewardship Initiative
- BEP PVC
- BES 6001
- Blue Angel
- CARES Sustainable Constructional Steel
- Carpet Institute
- Climate Active
- Concrete Sustainability Council
- Cradle to Cradle Certified
- Declare
- Eco Choice Aotearoa
- EMICODE
- EPD
- EPD Australasia
- EU Ecolabel
- FSC
- GECA
- Global GreenTag
- Global Organic Textile Standard
- Global Responsible Textile Standard
- Green Seal
- Health Product Declaration
- International EPD System
- Living Product Challenge
- Nordic Swan
- PEFC
- Product Carbon Footprint
- Responsible Steel
- Responsible Wood
- SCS Standards
- Steel Sustainability Australia
- Sustainable Forestry Initiative
- UL GREENGUARD
- AFRDI Green Tick
- CDPH Standard Method
- CEN
- ISO
- LEVEL
- NaturePlus (GreenCollar)
- PACT
1 credential, in Homestar v5 and BREEAM International NC v7.1. Clear selection
SCS Standards
Where it earns points or counts, rating tool by rating tool. About SCS Standards
Credit names, credential names and conditions are in each rating tool's or policy's own words, shown where its publisher's terms allow.
Homestar v5Rating tool
HC7 Healthy Materials, methods (2) floor coverings and (3) engineered wood; Recognised list, Indoor Air Quality Schemes row 'SCS Indoor Avantage Gold'
- Status
- Accepted with conditions
- Named as
- SCS Standards
- Edition named
- Not stated by the tool
- Level
- Gold · SCS Indoor Advantage certification level
- On what basis
- product within the VOC limits set by the recognised IAQ scheme
- Products
- Engineered Wood Products (VOC/Formaldehyde); Flooring (VOC)
- Scope
- Dots only in the EWP and Flooring MAT-2/HC7 columns. No dot for adhesives, coatings or any EN3 column.
- Conditions
- Indoor Advantage Gold level
- usable for VOC or formaldehyde criteria only
- certificate must be for the final product; a component certificate needs a Technical Question
- Source
- Homestar v5 · HC7 · List p. 1; HC7 p. 1, 2
Not named by: BREEAM International NC v7.1.