Calling all experts- in your experience do new cubicle walls/partitions count as "furniture" in LEED EBOM 2009. How about white/cork boards and things of that nature? I am trying to determine if we should include cubicle partitions etc in our furniture/durable goods calculations. Thanks for your advice/experience.
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Barry Giles
Founder & CEO, LEED Fellow, BREEAM FellowBuildingWise LLC
LEEDuser Expert
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March 20, 2013 - 12:07 pm
Well as usual in these types of discussion we roll out the old stand by.."it depends'. As they usually cannot be considered permanently or semi-permanently attached to a building then, Yes! (Can you defend the narrative that the movable walls are movable enough that they can be treated the same as 'six-seater sofas' as an example) Which other credit would you place them in?...I'd certainly place them in MR8 if I was donating them to another user, so in this case yes I would include them in MR2 with full documentation and backup as to recycle content, etc as shown in the reference guide.
Jubilee Daniels, MLA, LEED AP O+M
Consultant, Sustainable Buildings and OperationsJubilee Environmental Consulting
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March 21, 2013 - 1:19 pm
Thanks so much for your answer Barry. We would prefer not count cubicle walls (makes ongoing tracking that much harder), and I think we are pretty safe not including them.