We purchase plywood and laminate from local vendors and manufacturer laid-up laminate panels from these two inputs. These laid up panels are then modified into casework. Which items do we use...

than 500, then I would count it as a regional material. Personally, I disagree with how this whole credit is setup/worded (as I explained in my post on this forum on October 31), and I completely...

My client has a chair which was manufactured within 500 miles of the project site. The chair is composed of foam (5%), plastic (2%),...

This is a constant question in the...

An issue, new to me, has come up as I am reviewing a LEED Submittal for Structural Steel:

Q. One of the steel producers, Gerdau, has updated their "Recycled Steel Content for All Products...

Our...

The latest LEED Online version 04 for MRc4 Recycled Content and MRc5 Regional Materials now has a stand alone spreadsheet which is much easier to complete. On past projects, whenever I had a...

To the materials derived from petroleum as we consider the place of extraction? As the real place of extraction of the...

Has anyone run into an issue with the calculator not showing the "Sustainable Criteria Value ($)" under the Regional Materials for total material values over $1,000,000? We have grouped our...

I've heard that the location should be taken from where the steel in formed (manfactured) to determine the milage for Regional Materials since it is difficult to document the extraction location...