Change to Furniture Evaluation Criteria

Hi Ian, For initial consideration, was your project LEED registered prior to 01/27/2017? Technically, all project teams are required to adhere to all Addenda posted BEFORE their registration date. Adherence to Addenda posted AFTER a project registers is optional, but is strongly encouraged. Refer here for that guideline language: http://www.usgbc.org/resources/leed-addenda-database That aside, it sounds like you are interpreting the technical criteria correctly. If a product ONLY meets 7.6.1, it would be considered 50% compliant, requiring 50% of the total product's purchase cost to be manually entered into the Low-emitting Calculator. The itemized selection costs entered here would then generate the overall compliance calculation using the TOTAL project furniture costs in the Instruction tab, reporting the overall compliance in the Summary tab. Summarily, as 90% compliance is required overall, a project's success logistically relies upon nearly ALL of furniture costs to be associated with 7.6.2 compliant & sufficiently documented selections. Depending on your registration date, this may not be an absolute requirement for this particular project, but still something to strive for.....and something to be aware of for all future LEED projects.

Just checking - it does not appear that the Low Emitting Materials calculator has actually been updated/released to reflect the change of 50% compliance. All I see is the v3 calculator, and it counts 7.6.1 at 100%. Is there an updated version available that is not the one at https://www.usgbc.org/resources/low-emitting-materials-calculator? Thanks!

Hi Tommy, I'm seeing the same thing you are. It's strange that the addenda was issued back in January and an updated calculator still hasn't been posted.