Certified Wood - Chain of Custody - Fabricator

Catherine Blakemore

Architect, LEED AP BC+D

HOLT Architects

LEEDuser Basic Member

24 thumbs up

November 21, 2013

Does the fabricator / manufacturer of a product that incorporates wood components have to be FSC certified in order for the wood components to count toward the certified wood portion of the MRc3 credit

Post a reply

Susan Walter

HDR

LEEDuser Expert

894 thumbs up

Mon, 11/25/2013 - 22:35

Yes. LEED is still an FSC only kind of place.

Catherine Blakemore

Architect, LEED AP BC+D

HOLT Architects

LEEDuser Basic Member

24 thumbs up

Mon, 11/25/2013 - 23:03

Are you sure. I have heard otherwise. As long as a fabricator is not changing the FSC products and just cutting them to size and bolting or gluing them together and can provide invoices with COC numbers. The fabricators themselves do not have their own COC number as well. Or is this a new requirement under this rating system?

Susan Walter

HDR

LEEDuser Expert

894 thumbs up

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 13:36

It is a matter of degree and the reviewer on where the line is. Every project we've submitted where the final fabricator is not FSC certified, we have not been awarded the credit. If you are into the project, you may have better luck than we did if you can prove how minimal the work was (better documentation than I was providing). This FSC fabricator thing came up a couple of years ago after we had 2 big projects bid. We documented both credits, shifted what we could, submitted and did not earn the credit in either project. We've since changed our specification or consider not doing this credit depending on the project.