An increasing number of developers, interior architects and designers are looking for products certified for good indoor air quality when selecting materials and finishes for projects. As we spend more than 90% indoors, indoor air quality is recognised as a critical factor in health and wellbeing for building occupants.

Indoor Air Comfort Gold Certification ensures that low product emission requirements are fulfilled and are a sign of a manufacturers focus on quality and contribution to a healthy indoor environment. We are proud to have achieved this certification across our TaskWorx® and ComfortWorx® products.

Certified GOLD products are those with the best-in-class low emissions, thus meeting stringent demands for good indoor air quality.  

Administered by Eurofins, an international group of laboratories headquartered in Luxembourg, Eurofins "Indoor Air Comfort" (IAC) product certification is a well-established tool to show compliance of a product with low VOC emissions criteria set out in Europe.

Standard level "Indoor Air Comfort - certified product" shows compliance of product emissions with the criteria of all legal specifications issued by authorities in the European Union and its Member States.

Higher level "Indoor Air Comfort GOLD - certified product" shows additional compliance of product emissions with the criteria of many of the voluntary specifications issued by most relevant Ecolabels and similar specifications in the UK and EU and requirements for sustainable building certifications, for example BREEAM, WELL Building and LEED.   

The certification helps to promote low emitting products and shows compliance with all relevant VOC-related requirements in Europe (governmental and voluntary). Indoor Air Comfort Gold certificates are directly accepted as proof from programmes for sustainable buildings like BREEAM international and LEED.

Andrew Jackson, Business Development Director, EMEA comments: “We have a vision to ensure that each decision we make at Shaw Contract is knowledge led and puts people (specifiers and space users) first. We take responsibility for every step of the design and manufacturing process and are mindful of the role our products play in creating comfortable, productive interiors.”

Indoor Air Comfort Gold applies to standards for very low emitting products in accordance with EN 16798-1, which specifies requirements for indoor environmental parameters for thermal environment, indoor air quality, lighting and acoustics.”