Our client is pursuing a LEED-CI tenant build-out in a typical speculative high-rise office building in a major downtown market. The lease terms for the tenant space require it to be delivered by the landlord to the tenant demolished to the shell and core. Our client (the tenant) asked landlord to follow construction waste management procedures to maximize recycling of the demolition waste. This was a request only, since the landlord would not agree to this becoming a binding part of the lease terms. The landlord did demolish and recycle a portion of the demolition waste. Since this was strictly speaking not under the tenant\'s contract and scope of work control, can we develop an Innovation Credit that supports third-party construction waste management to the established MRc2 thresholds of 50% or 75%?
The recycling rate for the landlord\'s demolition activity (before delivery to the tenant) is not eligible for an innovation point in its own right; rather, it can contribute to the project\'s MRc2 calculations if the team so chooses. Applicable internationally.