Materials Tracking

Haley - To answer your first question - no. The second question's answer is yes. For LEED BD+C (as compared to LEED ID+C), you only have to track details (cost of product, LEED material attribute) for items that comply with the reuse/recycled/regional/rapidly renewable/certified wood credits.

While you don't have to track all the items, you may want to aim for that anyway. We find it easier to have the contractor get in the groove of recording materials and tracking them. From a process point of view, it is easier if all submittals are treated the same. Just a thought. If you have a larger project, this may be easier and less likely something you need will get overlooked.

Susan—I am not sure I agree about larger projects. I have worked on such projects that have attempted this approach—requiring MR data for every single Div03-10/31/32 product. It only made a complex project more complicated & costly. When we make dozens of contractors gather data from hundreds of subcontractors for thousands of products, everyone, including construction managers, architects, and LEED-APs, expends enormous amounts of time, money, & resources generating, transmitting, & evaluating data in mountains of paperwork and servers full of electrons. LEED-APs can preserve these resources, the goodwill of their Teams, and their own sanity by doing their homework up-front. By identifying the big-dollar, heavy-hitter products during design, they can target construction submittal requirements toward these items. This can allow the LEED-AP to work more closely with the particular parties responsible for the most important submittals. During the busy construction phase, this tactic can also free up contractors and others to focus on IAQ, VOCs, Commissioning, and the big-picture activities critical to a successful LEED project. The “Checklist” tab at the top of this page offers LEEDuser members numerous tips on how to analyze material budgets and research materials to hone down a project’s data tracking needs while still meeting credit goals.