In your experience, which items must be included as rapidly renewable to achieve 2% by cost. Is it, for example, typical to say 1) Floor covering and, 2) Ceiling panels I am struggling to see how the mass weighted cost of the floor covering would make up 2.5% of the total building costs (excluding mechanical & electrical systems). When thinking big ticket items, I think big cost items, i.e. windows, concrete...Does anyone have a rule of thumb recipe for success?

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Tristan Roberts

Representative

Vermont House of Representatives

LEEDuser Expert

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Mon, 11/21/2011 - 02:07

Jean, it is relatively tough to achieve this credit due to the issue you're encountering. I think that a winning formula likely includes flooring, perhaps insulation, perhaps wall covering, some sealants or coatings, perhaps casework. There is a long list of qualifying products in the sidebar to the right, under GreenSpec products.

Yusuf Turab

Managing Director

InHabit & BuildScape

LEEDuser Basic Member

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Tue, 08/23/2016 - 06:02

Hi Jean. We used the following combination to meet this requirement. Large quantities of coconut fibre for the green roof and other gardens Medium Density Fibre boards for wall covering that use sugar cane bagasse as filler Flush doors with sugarcane bagasse as filler Linoleum flooring for the gym Since the project was in India, our material cost was quite low since the actual ratio here is 70:30 material:labour but LEED allowed us 45:55 material:labour, this allowed us to ignore many non eco-friendly products in our submissions and still meet the LEED credits.

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