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CS-2009 MRc6:Certified Wood

Wooden fire door - security requirement

We are certifying a Core and Shell office building. Within the building, there will be installed only two kind of wood products: 1.- wood doors for vertical circulation that have to meet the national security rules for fire protection and 2.- wood doors for storage areas within underground levels. Only doors with FSC Certification and with no security restrictions could be found in local trade. Can we opt to demonstrate credit compliance without considering fireproof wood doors (because is a security requirement) into the wood materials budget?

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Tristan Roberts
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Fri, 08/31/2012 - 15:05

Hector, no, you may not. The lack of avaialbility of FSC certification in a wood product has never, to my knowledge, been accepted as a reason to exclude that product type. Part of the point of LEED is to convince the market to offer more environmental options in all kinds of product areas. Please let your suppliers know that you want FSC.

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