ID#
li-5468
| Credit Name | MRc6 - Rapidly renewable materials |
|---|---|
| Credit Category | Material & resources |
| International Applicable | Yes |
Rating System
LEED BD+C: New Construction
Rating System Version
v2 - LEED 2.2
Inquiry
Admin CIR MR credit 7 Certified Wood: Is it reasonable to exclude the post-consumer recycled content of composite wood products from the calculations for new wood use in the certified wood credit?. Post consumer wood products seem generally outside the scope of the existing certified wood rating system used by LEED. For example, there seems to effectively be no way to maintain a chain of custody for post consumer wood waste. Also, including post consumer waste in the certified wood calculation seems to set the requirements of the certified wood credit at odds with the recycled content requirements. The LEED calculator specifically uses NEW wood products in the calculations for certified wood products. We propose that this standard be used consistently for this LEED credit, and post-consumer wood products (by %) be excluded from the total wood calculation (numerator and denominator) when figuring out certified wood percentages.
