Any thoughts regarding recycling or salvaging urinals and water closets? According to the definition of durable goods (items that are replaced infrequently and/or may require capital program outlays to purchase), it would appear that urinals and water closets would meet this criteria. There is no double counting, and urinals don't fall under facility alterations since plumbing components are excluded. The project has purchased low-flow urinals, and we need to dispose of the old urinals. In this particular case, we wouldn't be attempting MRc8 otherwise, so it looks like we have nothing to lose!
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Tristan Roberts
RepresentativeVermont House of Representatives
LEEDuser Expert
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January 25, 2011 - 11:40 am
Your logic makes sense. I'm curious how you'd be recycling or salvaging them? If they are older, inefficient models it may be counterproductive environmentally speaking to keep them in use.
Kristina Bach
VP of InnovationSustainable Investment Group
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July 24, 2014 - 9:42 am
Jason- curious to see how your review worked out if you included the plumbing fixtures. We're facing a similar questions from one of our projects and our first reaction was that this waste would fall more into the facility alteration/addition category based on scope of the waste (facility improvement). However, as you know these items are specifically excluded from MRc9 and so cannot help there at all. Curious whether you were allowed to include them still in Mrc8 or if they got rejected as not really falling under the standard scope of that credit.