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Optimized Building Products

LEED v5 BD+C/ID+C: Materials and Resources Public Comments
posted by Chantal Carius on May 18, 2024, 6:54 am

50 products for projects outside US is unreal, a lot more effort and less points in this credit

Planning Zero Waste Operations

LEED v5 BD+C/ID+C: Materials and Resources Public Comments
posted by Chantal Carius on May 18, 2024, 7:07 am

It seems that maybe an education scope in this prerequisite is needed to achive the Zero Waste and threshold also seems to be needed as the prerequisite only speaks of "attempting" zero waste...

Assess Embodied Carbon/ Reduce embodied carbon

LEED v5 BD+C/ID+C: Materials and Resources Public Comments
posted by Chantal Carius on May 18, 2024, 7:09 am

Not sure where the reference Table of the prerequisite comes from. For the...

Optimize building product BD+C and CS

LEED v5 BD+C/ID+C: Materials and Resources Public Comments
posted by Chantal Carius on May 18, 2024, 7:11 am

  • It is not clear how many products the project team will need for the option 1 or the option 2, the same table that ID+C has should be shown in this part.
  • The credit's requirements...

Construction and Demolition Waste Reduction

LEED v5 BD+C/ID+C: Materials and Resources Public Comments
posted by Chantal Carius on May 18, 2024, 7:14 am

This credit should be attempting zero waste management in construction. Seems to me that this credit is less demanding than the prerequisite of Planning for Zero Waste Operations and shouldn't be...

Regional Materials

LEED v5 BD+C/ID+C: Materials and Resources Public Comments
posted by Sarah B Gregg on May 17, 2024, 1:57 pm

Consider adding an option to reward the use of locally sourced materials. I understand previous variations of this type of credit have been quite difficult to achieve since most building...

LEED v5 BD+C/ID+C: CSC and structural building products

LEED v5 BD+C/ID+C: Materials and Resources Public Comments
posted by Carsten Rieck on May 17, 2024, 10:40 am

The certification according to the Concrete Sustainability Council (CSC) should be considered in version 5. CSC aims to promote responsible sourcing and production of concrete, cement and...

Materials and Resourced | Optimized Building Products

LEED v5 BD+C/ID+C: Materials and Resources Public Comments
posted by Michael Scharpf on May 16, 2024, 1:40 pm

The big difference to LEED v4 is that this credit only considers NON-STRUCTURAL building products in the optimization process.

Why have structural building products been excluded from the...

Materials and Resources | Optimized Building Products

LEED v5 BD+C/ID+C: Materials and Resources Public Comments
posted by Michael Scharpf on May 16, 2024, 1:49 pm

Concrete Sustainability Council (CSC) responsible sourcing certification for concrete pertains to sustainable sourcing and manufacturing practices for concrete. It addresses similar...

Embodied Carbon Benchmarks

LEED v5 BD+C/ID+C: Materials and Resources Public Comments
posted by Sarah Manuszak on May 13, 2024, 1:55 pm

I am pleased to see embodied carbon being addressed in LEED v5's Materials and Resources (MR) category. However, both the Assess Embodied Carbon prerequisite and the Reduce Embodied Carbon credit...

Last reply: Paul Sambanis, May 16, 2024, 5:00 am