First of all, I LOVE this site as it is so helpful and has saved me so much time!
THE ISSUES
I have documented the reused furniture in MR c3.2 Materials Reuse - Furniture and Furnishings and I know it automatically shows up in template MR c4 Recycled Content. My questions are:
1.) Can I put 100% for Post-consumer content for each piece of furniture from the old site? I was able to do this in LEED NC Version 2.2 with success and it seems like "double dipping" now except that the cost of the new furniture is included.
2.) I would think the value of the reused furniture could potentially be subtracted from the Total Project Cost. Your thoughts?
Thanks,
Michelle
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Nadav Malin
CEOBuildingGreen, Inc.
LEEDuser Moderator
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February 4, 2012 - 9:07 am
Hi Michelle,The calculations for MRc4 exclude any reused furniture from both the nominator and denominator, so you can't count them toward recycled content, but they don't count against you either. You should NOT deduct them from your Total Project Cost as a separate operation.If you download the LEEDuser CI Materials Calculator from the Documentation Toolkit tab, you'll see that it does these adjustments for you automatically.