Credits

Replace the first paragraph with the following:List all new wood products (not reclaimed, salvaged, or recycled)on the project and identify which components are FSC certified.The cost of all new wood products, both FSC certified and not,must be tallied. Develop a spreadsheet to calculate the amount ofnew wood and the amount of FSC certified wood permanentlyinstalled on the project. Wood products that are not FSC certifiedand those that are identified on invoices as FSC Pure and FSCMixed Credit should be valued at 100% of the product cost unlessthe product is an assembly in which case only the new woodportion of the product counts for credit, see the guidance forassemblies in this credit. Wood products identified as FSC Mixed(NN)% should be valued at the indicated percentage of their cost,for example, a product identified as FSC Mixed 75% should bevalued at 75% of the cost. FSC does not allow partial claims ofcertified products, wood products with non-controlled woodcomponents will not earn FSC certification. The entire product mustbe FSC-certified, Pure, Mixed (NN)%, or Mixed Credit to contributetowards the credit threshold for MR Credit 7. For example, aproduct that includes multiple wood components, like a door, theentire product must be FSC certified. The door cannot be labeled,or claim, that only the door core is FSC certified.

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Ref Guide Name and Edition Pre-v4
Green Building Design and Construction, 2009 edition