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EBOM-2009 MRc1:Sustainable Purchasing—Ongoing Consumables

Dormitory Tracking

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JOHN COOK
Campus Sustainability Coordinator
University of California Riverside
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I am working on a university dormitory with 500 students living there. It would be almost impossible to track all of their purchases. However there are public spaces, bathrooms, offices and a store that is under management control and we would like to pursue this credit for those spaces. Is it acceptable to exclude the students and implement sustainable purchasing for rest of the building to achieve this credit?

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Tue, 05/03/2011 - 03:22

LEED CI, when applied in office situations does not require tracking user purchases ( or at least we haven't been dinged for it). EB and CI are focused on building/space operations not the actions of individuals. Must an auto plant track the steel in all the vehicles being made? It's all pass-thru, not fundamental to building operations. Must you track thehe recycled fabric in the children's clothing in a school project? I suggest the following questions to ask: 1. Is the material in question fundamental to building operations? 2. Is the material purchased by the building operator or for the building operators? e.g. vendor purchased paper towels should be counted e.g. A factory manufactures fluorescent lamp fixtures, and uses similar fixtures to light the factory floor. Here I think one tracks the product used to light the factory floor, not the product produced.

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