Product Achievements.
Every ULC record carries two computed views, stamped side by side in its generated index. The conformance level answers "how complete is the datasheet?". Product Achievements answers a different question: "what is the product documented for?". Per theme, it reports the third-party program qualifications the record demonstrates, computed from the attestations the record already carries and stamped into index.achievements. Like the conformance level, it is computed, never declared: there is no place to assert an achievement by hand, and the two views never cross (a sparse datasheet can carry excellent sustainability evidence, and a lab-characterized fixture can carry none).
Seven themes
An attestation contributes to a theme through its program token. Seven themes are computed:
- Embodied carbon
- Environmental Product Declarations (ISO 14025) and TM-65.2 embodied-carbon assessments.
- Circularity
- TM-66 assured circular-economy assessments and Cradle to Cradle certification.
- Material health
- Declare labels, Living Building Challenge Red List statuses, Health Product Declarations, and Cradle to Cradle (which contributes to both circularity and material health).
- Energy
- DLC listings, ENERGY STAR, California Title 20 and JA8, the EU ecodesign and energy-label programs, and NRCan efficiency regulations.
- Dark sky
- DarkSky Approved and DLC LUNA.
- Emergency
- UL 924, UL 1994, and the ICEL emergency-lighting conformity scheme.
- Domestic content
- The US federal-procurement programs: the Buy American Act (BAA), Build America, Buy America (BABA), and American Iron and Steel (AIS).
A record's sustainability declaration contributes too: a Declare or Red List declaration feeds material health, and a manufacturer recycle program feeds circularity, each capped at claimed, since a declaration carries no evidence document.
The full program-to-theme map is published as a versioned appendix in thecompliance and attestation glossary. Programs that certify projects or companies (LEED, WELL), multi-attribute ecolabels (EPEAT, UL ECOLOGO), and the controls programs held for a future theme are deliberately unthemed. Two origin tokens are permanently unthemed by design: Trade Agreements Act eligibility can be satisfied by non-US manufacture, and country of origin is a neutral provenance fact, not an achievement.
Domestic-content eligibility on a given project is confirmed per project by the manufacturer, not by this badge. ULC reports what the record carries; it does not certify that a product qualifies for a specific contract.
Three states, one evidence gate
none- No qualifying attestation or declaration contributes to the theme.
claimed- A qualifying attestation or declaration exists, but no attached, current evidence document backs it.
documented- At least one qualifying attestation carries an attached evidence document: a file reference with a filename and a SHA-256 content hash, unexpired as of the record's own as-of date.
The discriminator is evidence, never a status label: attaching the certificate file is what raises a theme from claimed todocumented. Expiry is judged against the record's ownrecord_status_as_of date, never the build clock, so the same record computes the same achievements today and next year. An attestation whose status is expired, withdrawn, or not applicable contributes nothing at all.
No overall score
There is no weighted or overall achievement grade. The only rollup isdocumented_count, a factual count of themes atdocumented. Weighting embodied carbon against material health has no accepted method, and inventing one would be ULC editorializing.
documented is a record fact, never a verification: it means an evidence document is attached to the record, not that ULC verified the underlying program. The verification standing of a claim lives in the attestation's own status. This is the same trust boundary the conformance level observes: ULC grades what a record carries; it does not certify products.
The legal floor: restricted substances
Beside the themes, never inside them, the index carriesrestricted_substances_declared: the RoHS, REACH, Prop 65, and similar restricted-substances programs declared anywhere in the record. Restricted-substances compliance is a legal floor, not a prestige achievement, so it surfaces as a flag rather than a theme.
On the reference records
| Record | Achievements |
|---|---|
| Cooper AtLite AUX (exit sign) | emergency documented: its UL 924 listing is backed by two attached UL Certificates of Compliance |
| Cooper Sure-Lites ES (exit sign) | emergency claimed |
| Cooper Sure-Lites LPX (exit sign) | emergency and energy claimed (UL 924; California Title 20) |
| Selux Aya | dark sky, material health, and domestic content claimed (DarkSky Approved; Declare and Red List Approved; Buy American Act) · RoHS declared |
| Vode Nexa | material health and domestic content claimed (Declare and Red List Approved; Buy American Act (BAA) and Build America, Buy America (BABA)) |
| Lumenpulse Lumenfacade RGB and RGBW | domestic content claimed (Buy American Act) · RoHS declared |
| ERCO Quintessence | no themed programs (its ledger carries safety listings and test methods only) |
Two of the Cooper signs are the axis in one comparison: same program, different evidence. The AtLite AUX record has its certificates attached and reads documented; the Sure-Lites ES record carries a UL 924 listing of its own with no attached document and reads claimed.