What kind of documentation is required for salvaged materials? I'm thinking specifically in a campus setting where we are salvaging furniture from other buildings for use in the project building. Do we just need some sort of blurb and description like "desk salvaged from Building X on date Y"? How about documenting the replacement value? Do you have to have the specs of that exact item or are there some assumptions that can be made about value of various items. Thank you!
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Barry Giles
Founder & CEO, LEED Fellow, BREEAM FellowBuildingWise LLC
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August 9, 2013 - 4:00 pm
Very good question. In early times we took photographs, wrote narratives about where from and where to the items where moving, found comparable prices on-line for 'new items', found comparable prices for used items and generally documented everything to give as much information as possible. The over aching question is, "If the GBCI come back with questions, can you justify what you have written as what actually happened?'. If you're claiming $10,000 per desk...can you prove it!