I'm working on a semiconductor fab that is part of a LEED campus project. The campus has a well-established, campus-wide green cleaning program in place. Other LEED office projects on this campus have earned an ID credit for green cleaning. The client is committed to this. Cleaning in the fab is limited to packaged lint-free wipes pre-soaked in ultra pure water (UPW), some with very dilute iso-propyl alcohol (IPA). No other chemicals are used. Management is considering eliminating these dilute IPA wipes and using just UPW wipes. Questions: (1) what is the consensus on whether dilute IPA wipes...

Michael Smithing Director- Green Building Advisory Colliers International Ltd. LEEDuser Basic Member 304 thumbs up November 24, 2015- 8:03 pm That should meet the credit requirements. We always use the calculation for Portfolio Manager- it uses an average US value so the result is incorrect for international projects, but it works for GBCI. As you have the ISO 14064 data I would give them both figures- it should not take too much additional time as this is a fairly easy credit to document. We've never had an issue with this credit. Log in or register to post comments ...

I posed this question for a NC-2009 project a week ago and received no replies, so thought I'd re-post it here: I'm working on a semiconductor fab that is part of a LEED campus project. The campus has a well-established, campus-wide green cleaning program in place. Other LEED office projects on this campus have earned an ID credit for green cleaning. The client is committed to this. Cleaning in the fab is limited to packaged lint-free wipes pre-soaked in ultra pure water (UPW), some with very dilute iso-propyl alcohol (IPA). No other chemicals are used. Management is considering eliminating...

variables beyond that point- shipping distance, installation, maintenance, repair or replacement, disposal or recycling, etc. Also for consistency the ISO standards that govern LCA's may dictate the system boundaries. You might want to check ISO 14040 and 14044. (caveat: I'm not an LCA expert) Log in or register to post comments Paula Melton Editorial Director BuildingGreen, Inc. LEEDuser...

My question is if it is required to actually buy certified cleaning products for the prerequisite in order to demonstrate compliance. In many international projects, Green Seal- or UL-certified products are not available, and ISO 14024 Type I label products are rare, or inexistent. Would this lack of available green cleaning products preclude a project from pursuing certification altogether? EQp3 Argentina ...

Dear all, I’d like to ask a question about the assembly U-value calculation according to NFRC norms. In most of our projects, the window manufacturers provide us with the window thermal properties calculated according to EN 673 and ISO 10077 norms. However, we have to use the thermal properties calculated according to NFRC norms in the energy model. We use Window software to calculate the assembly U-value and other data. We have no problem with the glazing part. However, we are not sure about to what extent we should model the frame? Do we have to generate a sophisticated model in Therm? We cannot...

pasted them below too. The overarching requirement is this: "For projects outside the U.S., any Type 1 eco-labeling program as defined by ISO 14024: 1999 developed by a member of the Global...

is nationally recognized and certified ISO 9001 & 14001. Regards, Ian Log in or register to post comments ...

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises U.N. Global Compact: Communication of Progress ISO 26000: 2010 Guidance on Social Responsibility B-Corp...

Jon Clifford LEED-AP BD+C GREENSQUARE LEEDuser Expert 326 thumbs up April 27, 2015- 9:17 pm Usuma—You are correct. The definition of pre-consumer in ISO-14021 does not include materials reclaimed during the same process that generated them. Therefore, a steel mill that collects and reuses scrap within its own mill cannot call that material “recycled.” However, a manufacturer that buys steel to make a product might have leftover material that it sells back to a steel mill. This does qualify as “pre-consumer recycled.” This is common because steel often changes hands several times before it reaches...