This new section allows you to special order any of our Higuera Hardwoods Product Lines made with formaldehyde-free adhesives that will qualify for IEQ Credit 4.4.

IEQ Credit 4.4: Low-Emitting Materials.

The U.S. Green Building Council's LEED IEQ Credit 4: Low-Emitting Materials pertains to composite wood and agri-fiber products, and contributes one point toward LEED certification. The USGBC intentions are for this requirement to contribute or "reduce the quantity of indoor air contaminants that are odorous, irritating and/or harmful to the comfort and wellbeing of installers and occupants."

Products and changes in credit qualifications
For many years in the past, our manufacturing adhesive allowed our products to contribute to the USGBC's LEED IEQ Credit 4. However, we were advised by USGBC in 2006 that they had modified its position and would no longer qualify products made with urea-formaldehyde-based adhesives. Although our adhesive emits formaldehyde at levels less than or equal to 0.01 ppm-far below levels allowed by U.S. OSHA, European E1-all of our flooring products no longer qualify. (Please note that the IEQ Credit 4.4 does not mandate the maximum allowable quantity of formaldehyde that can be emitted by the adhesive, only that urea-formaldehyde adhesives are not allowed.)

We use a formaldehyde-free adhesive in our custom ordered block countertops , so those products also qualify for IEQ Credit 4.4.

Please feel free to contact us regarding our product lead times to special order any Leeds IEQ 4.4 Qualifying material

The LEED MR Credit 6
Higuera Hardwoods bamboo products qualify for LEED MR Credit 6: Rapidly Renewable Materials because bamboo is naturally a rapidly renewable resource.

Please call 1-888-300-2059 or email us for details contact@higuerahardwoods.com