Credit Interpretation Request: Exceptional Construction Waste Management and Neighborhood Rebuilding Intent: The intent of the proposed innovation in design credit is to show exemplary urban redevelopment building reuse efforts and exceptional construction waste management. The project is a 13 level healthcare facility located in an urban setting in the northeastern United States. The hospital is sited in a mixed-use community complete with institutional and commercial facilities, as well as residential. The sought innovation in design is for the relocation of six residential structures on the project site that were completely reused and re-sited to areas of the neighborhood that were missing buildings. Through the creation of the project, the homes were completely recycled, and an urban neighborhood was renewed and strengthened. Design Approach: The neighborhood rebuilding innovation in design credit brings together several aspects of the project\'s sustainable design goals. The first is urban redevelopment. The project is an expansion of an existing urban healthcare facility. The hospital will utilize amenities and infrastructure available to the existing facilities rather than build on Greenfield site at the urban fringe. The hospital is committed to making a positive impact on the neighborhood it serves, and rebuilding the neighborhood is aligned with this strategy. The site is conveniently located within a few hundred feet of train, bus and shuttle lines thus reducing the need for automobile traffic and associated pollution and augmenting a pedestrian friendly area. It is a hospital goal to maintain high-density development without adversely impacting the surrounding neighborhood. The six houses occupied two back-to-back city blocks across the street from the existing hospital. All six houses are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Over time the two blocks where the homes were located deteriorated. Two of the relocated houses had been separated from the rest of the residential part of this neighborhood by three vacant lots and a surface parking lot. The two homes are now located in a completely residential part of the neighborhood. One of the houses was an infill of a vacant, run down lot and provided a needed facelift to the South side of this street. The other house was relocated to a short block that had two houses on each side of a vacant lot, strengthening the residential presence on this street. The remaining four houses replaced the surface parking lot filling on the block to make it entirely residential, rejuvenating the area. All of the houses were moved and interspersed with five vacant lots. Specific environmental advantages not otherwise recognized by LEED and exceeding measurement thresholds set forth by LEED: Relocating the houses helped mitigate the negative impacts vacant lots can create such as the dumping of trash, vandalism, squatting, loitering, etc. The relocation effort of the six houses has a net positive impact on the construction waste management calculations. The homes will be included in the calculations for Materials and Resources credits 2.1 and 2.2: Construction Waste Management. The goal of the project is to exceed the 75% total of recycling/salvaging construction waste for the project by 15% so that in total 90% of construction waste will be recycled or salvaged. The total cost relocating the six houses was approximately 2.5 million dollars. Proposed submittals to demonstrate compliance: (1) Construction waste calculations will be provided. (2) The six historic residential structures were moved in a manner consistent with Moving Historic Buildings by John Obed Curtis (US Department of the Interior, 1979) and were properly documented for the rehabilitation/reconstruction of historic features prior to moving the buildings. (3) Before and after maps will be provided with the submission.