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Healthcare-v4 EQc2: Low emitting materials
I'm working on a children's hospital and there will be an indoor playground. Anybody have any experience or guess on how GBCI will treat indoor playground equipment with this credit?
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Tristan Roberts
RepresentativeVermont House of Representatives
LEEDuser Expert
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August 26, 2017 - 1:32 pm
The furniture evaluation doesn't feel right. Not sure, though, that it would be exempted. Would a general general evaluation using CDPH v1.1-2010 make sense for your project?
Allison Smith
Sustainable Design LeaderHKS, Inc.
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August 28, 2017 - 3:16 pm
I did a search, which was not exhaustive, but couldn't find any playground equipment with CDPH v1.1-2010 (or later) testing.
I'm not sure if this project can meet the Furniture requirements (standards exist, but have not been evaluated yet) but I'm not convinced that playground equipment counts as furniture either. USGBC does define furniture and furnishings which does not specifically include or exclude playground equipment. In v.3 Schools and CI had low-emitting furniture credits but they exclude playground equipment as they are specific about what to include.