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NC-v4 MRc3:Building product disclosure and optimization - sourcing of raw materials

Is there a limit to how many products can use the same CSR?

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Alexa Stone
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An industry-wide (generic) EPD can be used for up to 10 products listed within the industry-wide EPD, provided that each application has separately reported impacts within the EPD. Is there a similar rule for CSR's? Our project is using 16 products manufactured by BASF, can we use this Third Party Verified CSR for all products? http://bericht.basf.com/2016/en/servicepages/downloads/files/BASF_Report_2016.pdf

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Nadav Malin
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Fri, 06/09/2017 - 11:00

HI Alexa,In principal I think you could use one report for up to 16 products, as long as you also had reports from at least 4 other suppliers to get to required number of 5 different manufacturers.However, it's very unlikely that this report will qualify as it doesn't provide details on raw material extraction as required in the credit language. On page 94 it says: "In  2016,  BASF  purchased  a  
total of around 30,000 different raw materials from more than
6,000  suppliers." But it devotes only a page and a half to all Raw Materials.This problem isn't unique to BASF: Very few CSRs do better, so I don't consider this credit achievable right now--USGBC needs to do more to clarify what it's looking for here, I believe.

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