A large amount of carpet was donated to us by a big local company who didn't use it all in their hotels. The carpet itself had never been used. I am counting this as salvaged material but can I also count it as "recovered" material within a 500-mile radius?
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David Posada
Integrated Design & LEED SpecialistSERA Architects
LEEDuser Expert
1979 thumbs up
July 5, 2011 - 6:46 pm
The EBOM MRc3 language doesn't address this explicitly. Under NC Salvaged materials can also count for Regional content (see BD&C reference guide page 365) but salvaged materials are defined there as items that have been "used." See if you can get documentation that the donated carpet was in a condition that would qualify as used or unable to be returned/ resold - such as partial rolls, remnants from a custom order, etc.
Barry Giles
Founder & CEO, LEED Fellow, BREEAM FellowBuildingWise LLC
LEEDuser Expert
338 thumbs up
July 5, 2011 - 7:18 pm
I think you can take one of two avenues here..1. Doesn't matter if you bought, traded it or stole it....if the carpet follows CRI standards (or similar) then you're going to use the documentation provided (or you'll find the documentation). 2. This second answer is a little tricky...maybe LEED user won't like it...but...here goes...Only YOU know the carpet is new...no-one else does...so just say that you had carpet donated to you, value it at a minimal sum and add it into the salvaged materials list...the down side, well if the carpet is NOT CRI standard the VOC's will be awful and what you gained with the free carpet will be used up in Advil to cure the headache!