Kalamazoo College\'s Hicks Student Center is an existing building that houses a number of campus functions. To create a more dynamic Student Center, the building is currently undergoing a significant renovation. The existing food service and dining areas will be relocated from one part of the building to another area within the building. The Materials Reuse credit requires a 5% reuse of salvaged, refurbished or reused materials based on the total material value of the project. The credit does not allow mechanical, electrical and plumbing equipment to be included in the 5% material cost required. There are several new pieces of food service equipment in the renovated kitchen and food service area, but a significant portion of the existing equipment can be refurbished and reused. We do not consider the reused kitchen and serving items to be mechanical or electrical, but necessary equipment that is required for functionality of the space. Rather than simply discarding the existing and purchasing new equipment, we are responsibly reusing existing equipment that has remaining useful life, and would like to confirm your support in their application to MR credit 3.1. The example below is provided to show our calculation methodology: Value of contracts including Food Service Equipment: $5,680,133 + $1,165,000 = $6,945,133 Total material cost based on 45% (including Food Service Equipment): $6,8456,133 x .45 = $3,080,310 5% of material cost (reused materials): $3,080,310 x .05 = $154,016 Estimated Material cost for reused food service equipment = $200,000 (6.5%)