Mohawk Group’s Light Lab receives Petal certification

[Dalton, Ga.] Mohawk Group announced that Light Lab, the company’s design studio, has received Petal certification from the International Living Future Institute (ILFI) Living Building Challenge 2.1. 

"We are incredibly excited to be the first in the state of Georgia, as well as the first building product manufacturer, to receive the prestigious Living Building Challenge Petal Certification from the ILFI,” said Rochelle Routman, vice president of sustainability, Mohawk Flooring. “For quite some time, Mohawk has used Declare, ILFI’s nutrition label program for products, as a way to report and disclose information about the ingredients in the products that we make. Now we’ve set an even higher bar in sustainability as we have extended ILFI’s rigorous sustainability standards to our newly renovated design center by achieving certification through the Living Building Challenge.”