What about for an initial interior fit-out?

Habitech Distretto Tecnologico Trentino

LEED Services in Europe - Founding Member of GBC Italia

Habitech-Distretto Tecnologico Trentino

LEEDuser Basic Member

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April 14, 2011

Hello all. I am working on a LEED-CI project. The situation is an initial interior fit-out (build-out of areas where there are no existing interior walls, finishes, etc.) and the tenant's scope of work is only to work on interior not alterating structural elements. In a case like this, it seems that the requirements of the Pilot Credit are equal to the MR4-Recycled Content, where here I consider only the cost of the materials used for the initial fit-out. Or am I missing something? Moreover, which is the minimum percentages we have to achieve? 10%? Thank you in advance!

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Tristan Roberts

Representative

Vermont House of Representatives

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Sun, 04/24/2011 - 01:21

The threshold is the easy answer here—10% minimum.It seems like you are eligible for the credit, even if it seems kind of redundant. You could email USGBC to check with them.

Habitech Distretto Tecnologico Trentino

LEED Services in Europe - Founding Member of GBC Italia

Habitech-Distretto Tecnologico Trentino

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Tue, 04/26/2011 - 13:56

Thank you. I wrote to USGBC, see below for their answer. "Hi! It is acceptable to earn both Pilot Credit 20 and MR Credit 4, even though the requirements are very similar. For the pilot credit, for a CI project, the minimum threshold in 10%"

Sarah Buffaloe

Specialist, LEED

USGBC

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Wed, 04/27/2011 - 20:19

Hello Everyone, I'm Sarah Buffaloe and I staff the MR TAG that wrote this pilot credit. I wanted to make it clear that there is no minimum percentage requirement for recycled content (like there previously was), the cost value that goes toward credit threshold (numerator) is the % of the product that is recycled content by weight. So for example, a product that costs $100 and is 7% recycled content-- $7 goes toward the numerator. The 10% threshold in the credit is the ratio of the total numerator to the total denominator.

Juan Ramos

Project Manager

Boulder Associates

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Wed, 11/09/2011 - 00:13

I have a similar situation where the tenant improvement has very little revisions or additions the structural components in the building. It would seem that CI projects are already well suited to get this credit based on the results of MR 4. I think the greater challenge would be to remove the steel studs and framing members contribution to the recycled content and maintain the threshold OR remove the casework substrates and their contribution to the recycled content maintain the credit threshold.