Mohawk Group, a leading commercial flooring company known for cutting-edge and innovative flooring solutions, recently announced that Light Lab, the company’s newly renovated design studio, has received Petal Certification from the International Living Future Institute Living Building Challenge 2.1. advocacy tool and philosophy that defines the most advanced measure of sustainability in the built environment possible. The Challenge is comprised of seven performance categories called Petals: place.

“We are incredibly excited to be the first Living Building Challenge Petal Certified project in Georgia, the first Living Building Challenge Petal Certified restoration project in the United States, and the first building product manufacturer to receive the prestigious Petal Certification from the ILFI,” said Jackie Dettmar, vice president commercial design and product development for Mohawk Group. “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.”

Located in Dalton, GA, the 33000 square foot Light Lab is a mid-century modern building that features 360 degree views of landscape and natural vistas. Built in the early 1960s as the headquarters for World Carpet, the building has been used most recently as a showroom space for Mohawk Flooring residential products. The conceptual design of the interior renovation for Light Lab was provided by students from the Savannah College of Art and Design, and the building is now home to all of the product design teams in the Mohawk organization. Light Lab has satisfied the Living Building Challenge requirements for the site, health, materials, equity and beauty Petals.

“Mohawk’s Petal Certification further demonstrates the company’s progressive attitude and unwavering commitment to both sustainability and ILFI’s transformational programs, including the Living Building Challenge, Declare, and the Living Product Challenge,” said Amanda Sturgeon, chief executive officer of the International Living Future Institute. “ILFI is proud to call Mohawk our partner and we are excited about future efforts to work together on our vision of a world that is socially just, culturally rich and ecologically restorative.”