SMART© Consensus Sustainable Product Standards

Provide Substantial Global Benefits for Building Products, Fabric, Apparel, Textile & Flooring covering over 60% of the world’s products - Environmental, Social, & Economic:

• Rating System: Sustainable, Sustainable Silver, Sustainable Gold & Sustainable Platinum
• Multiple Environmental, Social, & Economic Benefits over the supply chain
• Business Benefits: cost savings, design innovation, product differentiation, long term customer relationships, liability reduction
• Market Definition of Sustainable Products
• Life Cycle Environmental Performance Requirements for Sustainable Products
• Social Performance Requirements for Sustainable Products over the supply chain
• Define Sustainable Agriculture
• Maximum Credit/Recognition over All Product Stages/Entire Supply Chain for:
  • 100% Reduction of Over 1300 Pollutants covering 12 Environmental Impacts
  • 100% Use of Green-e Renewable Power
  • 100% Post Consumer Recycled or Organic/BMP Biobased Materials
  • 100% Reuse/Product Reclamation
  • Social Equity for Manufacturer & Suppliers

SMART© Online Accredited Training
International Interior Design Association (IIDA) Launched Sustainable Textile Online Training Module with MTS, Gensler, DMJM, Milliken, Catalyst Partners, and 80 other training partners. See the Training Section of this site.

LCA & Sustainable Product Standards Accredited Training©
Thanks for the Pilots: International Interior Design Association (IIDA), DMJM / Rottet, Knoll, International Design Center for the Environment, Forbo Flooring & Steelcase. See the Executive Summary.

SMART© & California Gold Meet All 24 Sustainable Product Certification Criteria.  They Also Protect Against Unlawful Greenwash:  See the Sustainable Marketing Sheet.

SMART© Sustainable Textile Standard 2.0 (Dec. 2004) (Fabric & Apparel)
Download (MS Word format - 324K)

California Gold Sustainable Carpet Standard (July 2006) (identical to SMART©)
Download (PDF format - 292K)

SMART© Sustainable Flooring Standard 2.0 (Apr. 2006)
Download SMART© Flooring Scorecard (PDF format - 292K)
Download Approved SMART© Flooring Standard (MS Word format 92K)

SMART© Sustainable Building Product Standard (Dec. 2006)
Download SMART© Building Product Standard (PDF format - 213K)
Download Approved SMART© Building Product Scorecard (PDF format 126K)

Attachment for PHE 2-1, § 6.1.2
Download (Excel format - 292K)

SMART© Textile Standard Application for Manufacturers to Certify to the Standard
Download (MS Word format 92K) (Fabric)