Certified Indoor Air Quality

Designing Healthier Spaces: Why Indoor Air Quality Starts Beneath Your Feet

In sustainable architecture, air quality is no longer just a technical detail. It has become a design imperative. As architects are tasked with creating buildings that not only consume fewer resources but also promote human well-being, the materials we choose are under greater scrutiny than ever before.

At Hørning, we believe a healthy building begins beneath your feet.

Certified for Indoor Well-being

When designing schools, offices, and public buildings, indoor air quality is a crucial factor. Children, office workers, and vulnerable individuals can be particularly sensitive to poor air quality, with volatile organic compounds (VOCs) being a known culprit. These airborne substances, often emitted by building materials, can cause discomfort, allergic reactions, and even long-term health effects.

This is where the Eurofins Indoor Air Comfort Gold Certification makes a tangible difference.

Regarded as one of Europe’s most comprehensive certifications for indoor air quality, it combines the strictest requirements from national regulations and voluntary eco-labels into one unified standard. For architects, it offers peace of mind, ensuring that materials like Hørning’s solid wooden floors release minimal emissions into the indoor environment.

Supporting Green Building Certifications

Sustainability certifications like BREEAM, LEED and DGNB are increasingly part of the design brief for modern school and office environments. They do not just assess energy efficiency or material sourcing. Indoor environmental quality, including air, plays a significant role.

Specifying Eurofins-certified floors helps architects meet crucial requirements towards achieving these green building certifications. With documentation that is both robust and internationally recognised, it simplifies what is often a complex process of verifying compliance across different systems.

Quality that Stays Verified

Choosing a certified product should not be a leap of faith. Eurofins Indoor Air Comfort Gold is not a one-time label. It is a promise backed by ongoing audits, laboratory tests, and continuous quality control of the production process. This means that when you specify a Hørning floor with this certification, you are assured of its compliance at the time of delivery and throughout its production lifecycle.

For architects and developers, this traceability and reliability is essential, especially in public projects where transparency and accountability are critical.

Healthy Materials for Sustainable Architecture

As we design the buildings of tomorrow, we need materials that align with the bigger picture of sustainable, people-centred architecture. Solid wooden floors, when responsibly sourced and meticulously crafted, can be a vital component in achieving spaces that are as healthy as they are beautiful.

At Hørning, we take pride in contributing to projects where health, sustainability and aesthetics come together. Our Eurofins-certified floors are more than a surface; they are a foundation for better indoor environments.

Because well-being should be built in from the ground up.

Photos by: Martin Schubert