This is a constant question in the wood industry and I am not sure how to answer it. Project Location: Cleveland, OH Wood Extraction: PA Product: Wood Panels Manufacturing Location: FL (assume outside the 500 miles) Scenario: The wood is extracted in PA, then driven by truck to FL. Here it is assembled into wood panels. After that the finished wood panels are shipped via road freight to Cleveland, OH. Can the original wood extracted (raw material) from Pennsylvania claim regional credit even though it was manufactured in Florida and then sent back north to the job site? From a GHG perspective this scenario is a nightmare because of the road freight but technically following the worksheet it seems that it would count. Please advise.

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Zachary Guren

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Fri, 11/16/2012 - 21:06

I don't believe this would count toward MRc5. Regional materials must be both exracted and manufactured within the 500 mile radius. In your scenario, the material is extracted within 500 miles, but it is not manufactured within 500 miles, so it cannot be considered a regional material. If you follow the worksheet provided by LEEDUser, you need to enter in the distance between the site and the manufacturer and the distance between the site and the extraction point. Both distances must be less than 500 miles for the material to qualify.

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