We are doing the MRc4 and MRc5 calcs for a restaurant i that is using the LEED CI 2009 Retail rating system.
It is not clear to us whether or not we have to use the kitchen equipment costs in the overall project budget to determine if all qualifying products for MRc4 or MRc5 meet the 10%/20% threshold. The Retail supplement doesn't address this and the Interpretations and Addenda Database doesn't address either .
It seems to me that, like with MEP equipment, it would be excluded b/c it greatly increases the numerator/denominator and those types of products are not really made from recyclable materials. Seems like including it would make it impossible for a CI retail restaurant to get MRc4 or 5. Thoughts?
Tristan Roberts
RepresentativeVermont House of Representatives
LEEDuser Expert
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November 20, 2011 - 10:19 pm
Susie, I am less familiar with CI than NC, but my understanding from the Reference Guide is that MEP is not excluded from CI as it is from BD&C systems—is that correct? If so then this seems to be consistent.