Dan Ackerstein
Ackerstein Sustainability, LLC
Principal
EBOM-2009 MRp1: Sustainable purchasing policy Required
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Intent
To reduce the environmental harm from materials purchased, used, and disposed of in the operations within buildings.Requirements
Have in place an Environmentally Preferable Purchasing (EPP) policy that includes, at a minimum, product purchasing policies for the building and site addressing the requirements of MR Credit 1: Sustainable Purchasing—Ongoing Consumables. This policy must adhere to the LEED 2009 for Existing Buildings: Operations & Maintenance policy model (see Introduction). At a minimum, the policy must cover those product purchases that are within the building and site management’s control. Additionally, extend the EPP policy to include product purchasing policies for the building and site addressing the requirements of at least 1 of the credits listed below. This extended policy must also adhere to the LEED 2009 for Existing Buildings: Operations & Maintenance policy model and specifically address the goal, scope and performance metric for the respective credit:- MR Credit 2.1: Sustainable Purchasing—Electric-Powered Equipment
- MR Credit 2.2: Sustainable Purchasing—Furniture
- MR Credit 3: Sustainable Purchasing—Facility Alterations and Additions
- MR Credit 4: Sustainable Purchasing—Reduced Mercury in Lamps
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We already have a purchasing policy that covers most of the required elements of the prerequisite and the LEED-EBOM Policy Model, but not all of them. Do we have to write an entirely new policy?The answer to this question is available to LEEDuser premium members. Start a free trial » (If you're already a premium member, log in here.) |
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© Copyright U.S. Green Building Council, Inc. All rights reserved.
Intent
To reduce the environmental harm from materials purchased, used, and disposed of in the operations within buildings.Requirements
Have in place an Environmentally Preferable Purchasing (EPP) policy that includes, at a minimum, product purchasing policies for the building and site addressing the requirements of MR Credit 1: Sustainable Purchasing—Ongoing Consumables. This policy must adhere to the LEED 2009 for Existing Buildings: Operations & Maintenance policy model (see Introduction). At a minimum, the policy must cover those product purchases that are within the building and site management’s control. Additionally, extend the EPP policy to include product purchasing policies for the building and site addressing the requirements of at least 1 of the credits listed below. This extended policy must also adhere to the LEED 2009 for Existing Buildings: Operations & Maintenance policy model and specifically address the goal, scope and performance metric for the respective credit:- MR Credit 2.1: Sustainable Purchasing—Electric-Powered Equipment
- MR Credit 2.2: Sustainable Purchasing—Furniture
- MR Credit 3: Sustainable Purchasing—Facility Alterations and Additions
- MR Credit 4: Sustainable Purchasing—Reduced Mercury in Lamps
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Documentation toolkit
The motherlode of cheat sheets
LEEDuser’s Documentation Toolkit is loaded with calculators to help assess credit compliance, tracking spreadsheets for materials, sample templates to help guide your narratives and LEED Online submissions, and examples of actual submissions from certified LEED projects for you to check your work against. To get your plaque, start with the right toolkit.
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Frequently asked questions
We already have a purchasing policy that covers most of the required elements of the prerequisite and the LEED-EBOM Policy Model, but not all of them. Do we have to write an entirely new policy?The answer to this question is available to LEEDuser premium members. Start a free trial » (If you're already a premium member, log in here.) |
Do we have to attempt all of the credits that we include in our policy? What if we attempt them and we don’t earn them?The answer to this question is available to LEEDuser premium members. Start a free trial » (If you're already a premium member, log in here.) |
We have a multi-tenant building. Do all of our tenants have to adopt the purchasing policy?The answer to this question is available to LEEDuser premium members. Start a free trial » (If you're already a premium member, log in here.) |
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Dan Ackerstein
Ackerstein Sustainability, LLC
Principal