http://www.usgbc.org/DisplayPage.aspx?CMSPageID=2135 Log in or register to post comments Eric Fischel Electromechanical Engineer CTS LEEDuser Basic Member 14 thumbs up June 8, 2010- 6:48 pm David thanks a lot for your answer, but still don't fit...

comments Tristan Roberts Representative Vermont House of Representatives LEEDuser Expert 11478 thumbs up June 11, 2010- 8:11 am For LEED purposes, zero added UF content is allowed under this credit. Log...

a clear line between material that is definitively moldy and that which is definitively not. Seems like a conservative approach in terms of casting a wide net to avoid future health and durability issues...

urinals are very efficient, it actually makes a lot of difference, but I wonder if people have experience with reviewers being OK with owner dictated ratios. Log in or register to post comments Tristan...

and use a budget calculation method-- typically there is relatively little used, and the VOCs can all be balanced out with one low- VOC interior paint that you use a lot of. Many of my peers don't...

Nadav Malin CEO BuildingGreen, Inc. LEEDuser Expert 844 thumbs up August 30, 2010- 5:52 am FloorScore certification thresholds are more stringent than the basic Greenguard certification--they are more in line with the thresholds in Greenguard Children and Schools. If these are products are certified under that program you may well be able to get them approved as "equivalent" to FloorScore, or under Option 2, in the credit since GG Children & Schools does include the CA DHS protocol thresholds. Log in or register to post comments Josh Jacobs Technical Information & Public...

Brent Ehrlich Products and materials specialist BuildingGreen LEEDuser Expert 33 thumbs up October 8, 2010- 6:03 pm Good question. Pre-rinse spray valves are the low-hanging fruit of water and energy savings in commercial kitchens. Performance and maintenance of these over time will depend on local water quality and mineral buildup, but any quality pre-rinse spray valve can be taken apart for routine maintenance…which is necessary as these things see a lot of hard use. T&S Brass, for example, claims its low-flow units will last for 1,000,000 cycles. GreenSpec lists several units (including...

within a "campus?" If so, then my question relates to the same sort of situation. We have two parking lots, one for exclusive in-plant use and one that employees use when they come to work. We are considering both parking lots as hardscape (for heat island effects), but when it comes to zoning requirements, they hardly seem to apply to the within-plant spaces. We have good things happening...

natural rainfall to grow native grasses. This is similar to a land application approach for treated wastewater disposal. Bottom line, this is not easy with the soil conditions we have, and the best option...

factor 3 criteria. For the documentation part, I cut a section through a typical unit and draw a 42" tall horizontal line from the window to the back wall of the room. Then connect that point...