FSC Chain of Command for MR7 and IDP1.5

Your millwork shop is correct - if they are doing anything to the product outside of installing it (with minor onsite alteration allowed for typical installation) they MUST be FSC certified, or the CoC has been broken.

Daniel - Unfortunately you are not correct. If FSC-wood is modified off-site, the modifier must have COC to complete the chain of custody. There was a 2010 correction to page 396 of the Reference Guide that inferred this - http://www.usgbc.org/content/ad-100000097. The October 2013 LEED Interpretation (LI ID #10296 - http://www.usgbc.org/content/li-10296) outlines an alternative procedure for gathering documentation from architectural woodworkers. There are several posts on this forum related to this topic. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click single-page view (http://www.leeduser.com/credit/NC-2009/MRc7?all-comments=true). Then search for off-site to find these posts including: http://www.leeduser.com/comment/redirect/31515, http://www.leeduser.com/comment/redirect/37465, and http://www.leeduser.com/comment/redirect/33378. Or search for millwork: http://www.leeduser.com/comment/redirect/61337, http://www.leeduser.com/comment/redirect/57221, http://www.leeduser.com/comment/redirect/54542, and http://www.leeduser.com/comment/redirect/52107.

The above comments are correct, your millwork shop does need to be FSC COC certified in order to provide FSC certified wood for the project. However, the process for getting certified is fairly straightforward, see the following link: https://us.fsc.org/en-us/certification/become-certified I'd encourage you to check with your millwork shop about having them get certified. If you want to talk about specifics in the certification, or your millwork contact would like to discuss this, please have them contact me via my contact details on the FSC website for Chain of Custody.