LEEDs Clarification

Jessica, in the words of the credit language (see above), "Use building materials or products that have been extracted, harvested or recovered, as well as manufactured, within a specified distance of the project site."To put this in clearer language, LEED is asking, for a given building product or material, where was it manufactured, and where were its raw materials harvested or extracted? The relevant distance is a 500-mile radius from the LEED project site.If you put the product on a scale, ""% by weight" refers to what percentage of the product meets the distance requirements. For most LEED projects (all except LEED-CI), the product must be BOTH made and extracted within the radius to qualify. Please let me know if I can clarify anything else. And I would recommend subscribing to LEEDuser and reading our more detailed guidance above!

Jessica, if you upgrade to a paid LEEDuser membership (you can see an offer to do this on free trial basis at the top of the page), you'll get a lot more guidance, in addition to this forum.I would not phrase things the way you did. Let me break it out another way:Regionally manufactured: product is manufactured within a 500-mile radius of the LEED projectRegionally harvested-extracted: the product's raw materials originate within a 500-mile radius of the LEED project. A point of origin might be a quarry or a forest, for example, For recycled content, the point of origin might be a scrapyard. (This is a finer point that is covered in more detail in our premium content).Percent compliant (for LEED-NC MRc5): The percentage of the product or material by weight that complies with BOTH regionally manufactured and regionally extracted requirements.Recycled content is also covered under MRc4.