Admin CIR MR credit 7 Certified Wood: Is it reasonable to exclude the post-consumer recycled content of composite wood products from the calculations for new wood use in the certified wood credit?. Post consumer wood products seem generally outside the scope of the existing certified wood rating system used by LEED. For example, there seems to effectively be no way to maintain a chain of custody for post consumer wood waste. Also, including post consumer waste in the certified wood calculation seems to set the requirements of the certified wood credit at odds with the recycled content requirements. The LEED calculator specifically uses NEW wood products in the calculations for certified wood products. We propose that this standard be used consistently for this LEED credit, and post-consumer wood products (by %) be excluded from the total wood calculation (numerator and denominator) when figuring out certified wood percentages.
The TAG Committee ruled as follows: The following amendment to MR Credit 7 encourages the stated intents of both MR Credit 7, Certified Wood, and MR Credit 4, Recycled Content, by ensuring that applicants seeking the certified wood credit are not penalized by unnecessarily including in the certified wood calculation products or portions thereof that do not contain virgin wood fiber. Amendment: The calculations for certified wood shall exclude the value of any post-consumer recycled wood fiber content of a product that qualifies to be counted under Credit 4, Recycled Content Materials. Applicable Internationally.