by Lauren Richardson
Sustainability Associate at Green Badger
GBCI Pro Reviewer
Highlighting construction flooring adhesives that will help you earn LEED v4/v4.1 low emitting materials credits.
Bellow you’ll find a variety of flooring adhesives from multiple manufacturers that you can use to get your LEED low emitting credit.
While we normally suggest that project teams ignore adhesives and sealants when tracking IEQc2 Low Emitting Materials credit, we know some teams will still go for it. We suggest that you punt completely on Adhesives and Sealants, for 3 reasons.
First, it’s the category that has the most products. You’re dealing with at least 20 all from different subcontractors. Second, from our experience, it has the least number of compliant products in the market place. Manufacturers just are not getting all of these products tested against the CDPH standard. Third, you’re going through dozens of submittals to get them all. The categories we suggest targeting can all be completed (in most cases) from individual submittals, and can likely be knocked out by 3 different subcontractors. For more advice on how to earn IEQc3 Low Emitting Materials for LEED, check out Green Badger’s Ultimate Guide to LEED v4 and v4.1 Construction.
But for those of you still brave enough to track adhesives and sealants, here are some plumbing adhesive and sealant products to get you started. All of the products listed bellow (and many more not listed) are searchable within Green Badger’s product database. To learn more about how Green Badger can streamline and automate your LEED documentation process, schedule a demo with us today.
Low Emitting Flooring Adhesives
Just a handful of LEED complaint flooring adhesive products available in Green Badger’s material database.
Armstrong: S-599 Adhesive
Compliance: CDPH17
Type: Flooring Adhesive
Armstrong: S-202 Static Dissipative Tile Adhesive
Compliance: CDPH17
Type: Flooring Adhesive
Armstrong: S-315 Roll Strong
Compliance: CDPH17
Type: Flooring Adhesive
Armstrong: S-780 Linoleum Adhesive
Compliance: CDPH17
Type: Flooring Adhesive
Chapco: Safe Set 10
Compliance: CDPH17
Type: Flooring Adhesive
Chapco: Safe-Set 400
Compliance: CDPH17
Type: Flooring Adhesive
Chapco: Safe-Set 299 Vinyl Tile Adhesive
Compliance: CDPH17
Type: Flooring Adhesive
Chapco: Safe-Set 4 Cove Base Adhesive
Compliance: CDPH17
Type: Flooring Adhesive
Custom Building Products: ProLite Premium Large Format Tile Mortar
Compliance: CDPH17
Type: Mortar
Custom Building Products: CEG-IG 100% Solids Industrial Grade Epoxy Grout
Compliance: CDPH17
Type: Grout
Custom Building Products: Prism Color Consistent Grout
Compliance: CDPH17
Type: Grout
Forbo: Sustain Adhesive
Compliance: CDPH17
Type: Flooring Adhesive
Forbo: FRT 950 Flotex Tile Adhesive
Compliance: CDPH17
Type: Flooring Adhesive
Forbo: L910w adhesive
Compliance: CDPH17
Type: Flooring Adhesive
Forbo: L 885 Adhesive
Compliance: CDPH17
Type: Flooring Adhesive
Laticrete: Tri-Lite
Compliance: CDPH17
Type: Multi-Purpose Mortar
Laticrete: Permacolor
Compliance: CDPH17
Type: Grout
Mapei: Ultrabond Eco 901
Compliance: CDPH17
Type: Flooring Adhesive
Mapei: Ultrabond Eco 373
Compliance: CDPH17
Type: Flooring Adhesive
Mapei: Ultrabond Eco 360
Compliance: CDPH17
Type: Flooring Adhesive
Roppe: Excelsior EW-710 Flooring Adhesive
Compliance: CDPH17
Type: Flooring Adhesive
Roppe: Excelsior USD-810 Epoxy Modified Urethane Adhesive
Compliance: CDPH17
Type: Flooring Adhesive
Roppe: Excelsior EN-610 Epoxy Nose Filler
Compliance: CDPH17
Type: Flooring Adhesive
Roppe: Excelsior AW-510 Acrylic Wet-Set Adhesive
Compliance: CDPH17
Type: Flooring Adhesive
Seal Bond: 95 ACCESS FLOORING PEDESTAL ADHESIVE
Compliance: CDPH17
Type: Flooring Adhesive
Shaw: 5100 Carpet Adhesive
Compliance: CDPH17
Type: Flooring Adhesive
Tarkett: 946 Premium Contact Adhesive
Compliance: CDPH17
Type: Flooring Adhesive
Tarkett: 959 Adhesive
Compliance: CDPH17
Type: Flooring Adhesive
TEC: Permaflex 300 LHT Mortar
Compliance: CDPH17
Type: Mortar
WF Taylor: Meta Tec 2071 Tuff Lok Wood Flooring Adhesive
Compliance: CDPH17
Type: Flooring Adhesive
Wilsonart: H2O Water Based Contact Adhesive
Compliance: CDPH17
Type: Contact Adhesive
XL Brands: Pressure Sensitive Adhesive Stix 2230
Compliance: CDPH17
Type: Laminating Adhesive
Using a LEED submittal cover sheet:
There are some pretty easy best practices that can really facilitate the documentation for materials and even low-emitting products.
Here’s one that you think would be commonplace, but at least in this Badger’s neck of the woods (literally), we don’t see all that frequent – using a required LEED Submittal Cover Sheet for all subcontractors. By having a coversheet, where you require the subcontractor to provide cost and any relevant LEED data (recycled content percentages, distance from extraction and manufacture, VOC content, etc), you get all this information upfront. Or reject the submittal and send it back. Pretty straightforward! Download your free LEED v4.1 product submittal coversheet bellow.
