Currency of materials cost

Habitech Distretto Tecnologico Trentino

LEED Services in Europe - Founding Member of GBC Italia

Habitech-Distretto Tecnologico Trentino

LEEDuser Basic Member

54 thumbs up

February 25, 2014

Do you know if it is acceptable to report materials cost in Euro instead of dollars as the calculation of the performance in credits MRc4, MRc5, MRc6 and MRc7 is anyhow a percentage? The project is located in Italy. Thank you. Susanna

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Michael Smithing

Director - Green Building Advisory

Colliers International Ltd.

LEEDuser Basic Member

201 thumbs up

Tue, 02/25/2014 - 08:51

LEED requires you to report costs in USD, but they do not specify an exchange rate. Feel free to use an exchange rate of 1/1 - we've never had any problem with that approach. I would note that you've asked this question in totally the wrong forum - you should actually post it in one of the MR forums for the rating system you are submitting in. Hopefully there the response will be the same.