I just received a comment back from my LEED submission regarding needing to provide invoices for new wood items, plywood and flakeboard. I have listed these as new wood items, the plywood at 100% and the flakeboard at 0.8%, both of which are not FSC and accordingly their FSC percentages are both 0% on my IDC material and resource Calculator. I have other new wood items that are FSC that will get me the required percentage even with the Flakeboard and Plywood bringing down the overall FSC percentage. I do not have invoices for the plywood used or the flakeboard, but I am not sure why they are looking for invoices and backup since they do not help.
I have also noted that the in the vendor invoice column on the IDC worksheet I have listed both items as "No" since I am not providing the invoice and there is no backup saying it is not FSC. The % vendor invoice at the bottom of the spreadsheet still totals to %100 since I have %100 of all the backup for the FSC related items. Please let me know if this is correct that they should be looking for the invoices or if you think I should make a formal inquiry.
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Doug Pierce, AIA
Architect / Sustainability StrategistPerkins+Will
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July 3, 2012 - 1:33 pm
Hi Patrick - Since the credit compares the dollar value of all new wood with FSC certified new wood, the invoices for non-FSC wood helps to validate the total new wood dollar amount.
Does your IDC worksheet accurately show the total new wood materials cost even though you have not included vendor information (invoices) for non-FSC certified wood? It sounds like there is a chance that may not be happening if the percent of Cutsheets is tallying at 100%?