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 Recycled Content line item, I also completed the Regional Materials portion for that line item irregardless if it met the Regionl Materials criteria of being witihin 500 miles.
My question: If a material is listed as a line item under Recycled Content, do we also complete the Regional Materials portion as well or do we leave the Regional Materials portion blank if the material's manufacturing & extraction is outside of the 500 mile radius?
I had a recent project review and MRc5 Regional Materials was listed as pending due to some of my line items being outside of the 500 mile radius with no cut sheets uploaded. The credit was being put on hold for line items that did not contribute to the credit in the first place.
Tristan Roberts
RepresentativeVermont House of Representatives
LEEDuser Expert
11477 thumbs up
November 20, 2011 - 9:15 pm
Kendal, I would have thought that you could have filled out the forms as you describe, but apparently GBCI has another idea. Have you been able to resolve this?
Kendal Neitzke
LEED Administrator, LEED AP O&M, Senior Designer, Assoc. AIAMSI General Corporation
50 thumbs up
November 20, 2011 - 10:07 pm
I did the due diligence of getting a letter from each of the suppliers that were in question even though they did not qualify as a regional material because they were further than 500 miles from the project site. I uploaded all of the letters in the final review and finally did get the credit. It is as though I had to prove that a material that was from a distance greater than 500 miles did not qualify as a regional material.
Peter Warren
PrincipalWarren Architecture
6 thumbs up
August 9, 2012 - 4:12 pm
I have the same situation with a insulated metal panel mfr who states in their literature that it is impossible to get regional credit: In their own words their lit says "Given the complexity of such a multi-component system, it is not possible to verify and document a primary location of material extraction or processing. Therefore, (we) suggests that these roof panels not be included in the calculations for MR Credit 5." So the Extc Dist is "unknown." I plan to highlight this sentence and put "0" in the "% Reg" Column and a "0" in the "Extc Dist"column. Hopefully if you claim "0%" then they dont ask for proof!
Keith Lindemulder
Environmental Business Development- LEED AP BD&CNucor Corporation
193 thumbs up
August 10, 2012 - 10:06 am
Why would you include any items which provide no value to achieving the credit?
Peter Warren
PrincipalWarren Architecture
6 thumbs up
August 10, 2012 - 11:33 am
Because they have high recycled content. The question is what to enter under the "Extr Dist" column when the value is unknown. One cannot type "unknown" or "n/a" b/c the field only accepts numeric values.
Taylor Ralph
PresidentREAL Building Consultants
31 thumbs up
August 10, 2012 - 4:15 pm
In short, there is no need to fill in the 'Regional Content' sections if there is no regional content in the material, even if there is recycled content.