Hallo,
I would like to know if AISI 307 stainless steel meets the credit requirements.
Apparently, this type of steel is widely used in medical furnishings, particularly for workstations and chairs.
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Susan Walter
HDRLEEDuser Expert
1296 thumbs up
July 7, 2014 - 11:42 am
Option 1, right? Metals are referenced in 2 places there. The second is hexavalent chromium and that is specific to the plating process. The stainless steel would be plated such that it would fall under this guide as I understand things. The first is a longer answer. The AISI 307 must be an international reference. I could only find this in relation to Chinese tubing and welding wires. Here you're going to have to look at the alloy components and see if they are less than the 100 ppm. This is going to be functionally impossible since the alloy components aren't reported like that.
If you can find an alloy component list and post it, we can review it together and see if you have a problem. My bet is that your product is okay.
Gustavo De las Heras Izquierdo
LEED Expert184 thumbs up
July 7, 2014 - 1:29 pm
AISI 307 contains 19%-22% chromium, according to this web:
http://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/AISI-307-stainless-steel_523055581...
My point is, an alloy should not be considered as a "plated finish", since it is a material whose components are not going to come out, as it usually happens with chromium-plated finishes.
Anyway, I would like to have other team's opinion.
Thanks,
Mara Baum
Partner, Architecture & SustainabilityDIALOG
674 thumbs up
February 25, 2015 - 8:26 pm
Interesting discussion. Since only plated finishes are referenced in the requirement, it seems like products with hexavalent chromium in things other than plated finishes would be OK. Note that alloys can be plated, so just because it's an alloy doesn't mean that it's not plated.