% of Cutsheets required?

You definitely had the correct understanding -> you only need to provide manufacturer documentation for 20% of the compliant materials value and not 20% of all listed materials. I'm thinking that you might’ve gotten that comment due to one of the following common issues (apologies if none of these apply): 1) Did you make sure that you were providing documentation for 20% of the compliant value and not 20% of the listed materials? For example, if you had $10,000.00 worth of materials listed in the form and your MRc4 "Sustainable Criteria Value" is $2,000.00, you would need to provide manufacturer documentation for enough products/materials to verify compliance for at least $200.00 worth of that sustainable value. This is a fairly common issue as the IEQc4 credit 20% documentation minimum is based on the number of items; the MR credits 20% documentation is based on the sustainable value of all claimed materials. It can also be somewhat tricky to calculate as you need to be looking at the sustainable portion of the material and not the overall cost when determining the amount of manufacturer documentation to provide. For example, if your doors cost $100 and are composed of 50% post-consumer recycled content, providing manufacturer documentation for that product would be equivalent to providing manufacturer documentation for $50.00 of your compliant sustainable materials value - not $100 ($100 door x 50% post-consumer recycled content = $50.00 MRc4 compliant value). This could be the reason you got that comment if you happened to provide documentation for lower-cost and/or less compliant materials as these materials would have a lower sustainable value to contribute towards your overall value… 2) Alternatively - did you make sure that the manufacturer documentation you were including/counting for that credit actually spoke to the requirements of that specific credit? Each MR credit requires that minimum 20% documentation level separately. This means that if a manufacturer statement only includes information regarding one MR credit and not another, the documentation would only qualify towards the 20% documentation minimum for one of the MR credits. For example, if you are providing a manufacturer statement that only includes information about the recycled content, that document would help you meet the documentation minimum within MRc4 but it would not help you meet the documentation minimum within MRc5 (regional materials). In the older versions of the Credit Forms, the manufacturer documentation information was all linked and so it may have indicated to you that you provided sufficient manufacturer documentation. However, when the reviewers were going through your documentation and looking specifically at what was provided that spoke to just the requirements of MRc4, for example, it may have been that there weren’t sufficient cut sheets to verify the 20% minimum documentation threshold for that specific credit. 3) Less likely but just to be safe – Did you make sure that the documentation was actually from the product manufacturer? Statements from the contractor/subcontractor are not considered to be sufficient to verify the claims. If some of your documentation happened to be statements from a contractor/subcontractor, those would automatically be excluded from the 20% minimum documentation threshold. I definitely wouldn’t just take the 1 point as this could be a relatively easy fix depending on if any of the above issues are true. I’d recommend determining what your minimum sustainable value is that you need to meet with documentation for each MR credit you’re pursuing. Then double-check that the manufacturer documentation you provided for each credit actually includes information specific to how the product complies with that specific credit and then simply add more products/documentation until you make sure that you hit that minimum sustainable value for that specific credit. If you start with your higher-cost items and most-compliant products, you might not have to go through too many products to get to your minimum documentation threshold... In general for clarity within the MR credits, I’d recommend that you upload a separate file (either combined pdf or zipped file) for each attempted MR credit which only includes documents which have the information relative to that credit (for example – if your door documentation talks to only recycled content, I would include that in the MRc4 documentation file but not in the MRc5 documentation file). Personally, I’ve found that helps me ensure that I have provided enough documentation for each credit separately without having to dig through a mess of uploaded cut sheets trying to figure out what demonstrate compliance with MRc4 vs MRc5 etc. and what value I've provided for each.