Would you consider the reuse of soil on this credit? The situacion is that the soil extracted for the building construction is not send to dump but it's reused on the modeling of landscape. If this is considered acceptable, and since the credit allows the reuse of off-site materials, would we accomplish by reusing also soil from another building excavation?

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Lorne Mlotek

BASc., LEED AP BD+C, O+M

LeadingGREEN Training and Consulting Inc, Viridis EC LLC

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Wed, 06/06/2012 - 13:08

Albert, The reuse of soil cannot be included in the material calculations for this credit. The intent of this credit is to: Reuse BUILDING materials and produce to reduce demand for virgin materials and reduce waste.... By re-using the soil onsite and not having to haul it off as well as utilizing excess soil from another site is just good construction practice in my eyes, not awarded in LEED MRc3. The only time I see soil really mentioned is in MRc2, Construction Waste MGMT in which it explicitly says to exclude debris and SOIL from recycling/salvage calculations. It would be a far stretch, but if you are re-using a very large quantity of soil and you can prove its sustainability, try submitting an ID! I hope this helps, let me know.

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