April 2, 2007—GREENGUARD Environmental Institute (GEI) has announced an agreement with Collaborative for High Performance Schools (CHPS) to recognize its GREENGUARD Children & Schools Product Certification Program as a strategy for supporting the CHPS Best Practices Manual for K-12 schools.
Under this agreement, the GREENGUARD Children & Schools Product Certification Program complies with the State of California’s Department of Health Services Standard Practice (CA Section 01350) for testing chemical emissions from building products used in schools.
Recognizing the sensitivities of school-aged children and the unique characteristics of the classroom environment, GEI launched the GREENGUARD Children & Schools Product Certification Program in September 2005 to provide K-12 school facilities clear guidance on selecting products that have been rigorously tested for chemical emissions.
With the growth of green building in the school market, this certification program quickly gained the attention of school product manufacturers and the K-12 building community. To date, more than 30,000 products have been certified and over 20 manufacturers now promote their certified products with the GREENGUARD Children & Schools mark.
GEI is a non-profit organization that establishes chemical emissions standards for indoor products, environments, and buildings. For more information, see the Web site.
Founded in 2000, the Collaborative for High Performance Schools (CHPS) is a nonprofit organization that strives to facilitate the design of high performance schools: environments that are healthy, comfortable, energy, resource and water efficient, safe, secure, adaptable, and easy to operate and maintain.
