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CI-2009 IEQc4.4:Low-Emitting Materials—Composite Wood and Agrifiber Products

Retail Displays and Fixtures

I am a newbie to this forum and am working on my first LEED accreditted project so please bear with me if I ask a few remedial questions! Our company produces retail display fixtures primarily in our factory in China. I've found that most of the LEED compliant materials I need for this particular project are distributed overseas which is good news however there may be one or two we may not be able to source. Does a fixture have to be 100% LEED compliant or can points be awarded for just a portion of the fixture? For instance, if all of our wood used in the program is compliant but the Melamine or edgebanding isn't do we still receive any credits? Thank you -

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Thu, 06/07/2012 - 18:38

Opening statement above. "Like most of the other low-emitting materials credits, this credit is all-or-nothing." The fixtures are either 100% compliant or they are not at all.
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Thu, 06/07/2012 - 19:01

Kathryn, While I applaud you wanting to use as many low-emitting materials as possilbe, your fixtures don't need to meet this criteria to get credit in EQ4.4. This is due to the statement in the credit, "Materials considered fixtures, furniture, and equipment (FF&E) are not considered base building elements and are not included." Amber is correct though - for the products that you do have to meet the criteria for it is an all or nothing proposition.
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Thu, 06/07/2012 - 19:15

If you are going for IEQc4.5 the fixtures do count though...don't they?
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Thu, 06/07/2012 - 20:47

Amber - correct, but that credit focuses on low emissions of VOCs from furnishings where as this credit focuses on no added urea formaldehyde content in composite wood.

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