Equipment and furniture for building reuse credit MR. C3

This seems like a tough one. If you look at the CSI sections that are applicable for MRc3, equipment does not qualify, as far as I can tell. You might have better luck with CI MRc3.2 which covers furniture and furnishings. Since you're an NC project maybe you could pursue this under IDc1? One issue there might be that the reused material either needs to be from a different "site" or be reused in a different purpose. Not sure if either of those apply here. Also there may be restrictions relative to the CSI section for furniture. This might warrant followup with GBCI. Anyone else have thoughts?

I agree with Tristan here, equipment is not recognized in the MRc3 for NC. I would recommend pursuing this as an IDc1. If you pursue it this way the question becomes whether or not you need to now include the FFE budgets in all of the materials credits. As Tristan suggests, I would check with GBCI on this. Similarly, I am pursuing the CI credit EQc4.5 for a LEED NC project as an IDc1. They have not yet confirmed that if the project pursues this as an ID credit whether we will then be required to include the FFE in the MR credits. The team has looked at the calculations both ways and has determined that it is not to the benefit of MRc4 and MRc5 if the FFE budget has to be included - it makes reaching the target threshold much more difficult. This might not be true in your case. Based on the feedback we get from GBCI we will decide whether or not to pursue it as an ID credit. I will post again once I hear. You do the same!

Anastasia, I agree, See LI #5047. Looks like you can't do MRc3, but were you able to earn an ID point? I'm curious, since I have a lab project, where we are encountering the same thing.