How to deal with insecticide?

Gabriela Hernández Castillo

Architect, LEED AP BD+C

SYASA - México

LEEDuser Basic Member

140 thumbs up

March 3, 2011

Our project is located at an area where COMEJEN is usual due to a very humid climate. COMEJEN is a sort of termite who lives in concrete cracks. It has been suggested to use a insecticide that is sprayed on concrete to avoid this termite during construction. I have done a little bit of research about this insecticide and it is not harmful to people. Will this somehow impact EQC3? According to the standard practice it is not used on soil so it does not affect SSP1, and I'm trying to think if there is any other credit affected by using insecticide but I can't not identify any. Any comments/suggestions will be appreciated.

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Tristan Roberts

Representative

Vermont House of Representatives

LEEDuser Expert

7780 thumbs up

Fri, 03/11/2011 - 04:43

David, I would think this would not prevent you from earning IEQc3. I would review the SMACNA guidelines for any mention of this kind of thing, and if it's not mentioned, review them and extrapolate what a "best practice" would be for applying this chemical relative to the housekeeping, scheduling guidelines, etc. I would also consider a universal notification policy per Integrated Pest Management (IPM).