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NC-2009 MRc7:Certified Wood

Invoice for Wood in Assembly (Display Boards)

I've had some major difficulty with documentation for Certified Wood due to small amounts of wood in assemblies, specifically the backing on markerboards/tackboards. Twice now reviewers have nearly denied this credit because I was unable to provide an invoice for the wood backing that is part of prefabricated tackboards. Manufacturers buy bulk amounts of wood for these and don't have project specific invoices for the wood components to provide. Even when I explained this in a narrative to the LEED reviewers, the credit is still 'pending' because of this one missing vendor invoice for wood that isn't even claiming to be FSC. It just qualifies as 'new' wood since its not recycled. Does anyone have any advice on what to do here or experience with getting vendor invoices from display board manufacturers??

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Tue, 11/27/2012 - 17:40

Carly - What specification division have you been placing the markerboards in? They are commonly a Furnishing, Fit-up and Equipment (FFE) item that is not included in the LEED NC materials boundary (which includes the conventional specification sections 2-10 + some division 12 items like pre-fabricated casework that can also show up in division 6 if it is custom fabricated). You might consider simply not including them in your calculations as they are a furniture item - this would be different for LEED CI which reports on furniture. Off course if you delete the markerboards, it will change the percentage of other materials credits that rely on the total materials value of the project for their calculations (unless you are using the default material value). I don't have any special methods for getting 'split' invoices from a manufacturer to offer. However, if you can not get one split, maybe you can get an invoice for the entire markerboard, in which case another approach (besides deleting the markerboard from the calculation since it's furniture and outside the NC material reporting boundary) might be to include the entire markerboard value as 'new wood' (assuming it doesn't throw you below the 50% baseline for earning the credit). Since the negative impact counts against earning the credit, and not towards earning it, the reviewer might find the approach acceptable(?). Just a thought...

Tue, 11/27/2012 - 18:07

Thanks for the quick feedback Doug. According to the CSI Masterformat (and the project specs), these are in Division 10 Specialties, 101100, so they would technically be included. I agree that they seem more like a FFE item, but I'm not sure about excluding them since they are technically Div 10. I'm not holding my breath for a 'split' invoice from the manufacturer, but I think your suggestion to use the invoice of the whole tackboard assembly should work since, as you mentioned, it counts against earning the credit and waters down the actual FSC certified total. Fingers crossed!

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