Collection of regional material information

LEEDuser members can access the “Documentation Toolkit” tab at the top of this page. There, LEEDuser offers several forms. Among them is an “Environmental Materials Reporting Form,” a single-page PDF of “a materials tracking form that helps subcontractors record the environmental values of products they purchase” and that “can be distributed to each trade subcontractor and submitted to the GC for filing.” This form appears to be set up to track MRc3, MRc4, MRc5, MRc6, MRc7, & IEQc4.4. Since credit goals vary from project to project, the form may not match your project’s reporting needs exactly. However, the form might make a useful template upon which to develop your own, project-specific form.

Incidentally, although LEEDuser’s “Environmental Materials Reporting Form” makes a useful template, I have noticed a shortcoming to the MRc5 fields on the form. The form provides cells in which to enter the product name, the manufacturer, the cost, and the locations of and distances to harvest & manufacture sites, but it lacks cells for the “Regional Percentage,” which is a required entry in the LEED-Online MR Calculator Spreadsheet. Additionally, project’s using MRc5 Option 2 would need to adapt the form to account for modes of transportation.