LEED

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LEED

• Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design

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Learning Objectives

• A brief history of U.S. Green Building Council
  and LEED
• LEED rating systems credit categories
• Credit categories DHI products
• How wood doors contribute to these credits.
• FSC Certification Chain of Custody
• Review

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USGBC LEED

• U.S. Green Building Council - founded 1993. Non
  profit
• Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
• Over 18,000 Members, 60,000 LEED APs
• Sustainable building design
• Healthy, green profitable
• Goal Influence Top 25 of
• commercial projects
• USGBC.org

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LEED Rating Systems

• LEED-NC 2.2, 2.1, 2.0 (version)
• LEED For New Construction ( Major Renovation)
• LEED-EB LEED for Existing Buildings
• LEED-CI LEED for Commercial Interiors
• LEED-CS LEED for Core Shell
• LEED-H LEED for Homes
• LEED for Schools
• LEED 2009, Version 3 (April 27, 2009)

Know what rating system and version you are
working on!!
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LEED Point Categories

• Sustainable Sites
• Water Efficiency
• Energy Atmosphere
• Materials Resources - Doors
• Indoor Environmental Quality - Doors
• Innovation and Design Process

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LEED Training

• Know which LEED Rating System, version the
  project is registered under.
• Registration may be very important
• Gather all information
• Check Division 1 of the specifications, not just
  Division 8
• LEED Criteria, Division 1
• LEED Scorecard, Division 1
• Product Requirements, Division 8

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LEED-NC2.2 Credits

• Please ask Sue to do the LEED letter/
  spreadsheet.
• This will provide accurate math for you up front.
• MR 4.1 Recycled Content 10 - V3 MR4
• MR 4.2 Recycled Content 20 - V3 MR4
• MR 5.1 Regional Materials 10 - V3 MR5
• MR 5.2 Regional Materials 20 - V3 MR5
• MR 6.0 Rapidly Renewable Materials 2.5
• MR 7.0 Certified Wood
• EQ 4.4 Composite Wood Agrifiber Products

Note The building earns the credit
points. Products can only contribute to points.
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LEED-NC2.2 Credits

• MR 4.1 Recycled Content 10 (1 credit)
• MR 4.2 Recycled Content 20 (1 credit)
• Percentage of recycled content by weight in the
  product
• Recycle Content has two categories
• Pre-Consumer (Post Industrial) 50 credit
• Post-Consumer 100 credit

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LEED-NC2.2 Credits

• MR 5.1 Regional Materials Content 10 (1
  credit)
• MR 5.2 Regional Materials Content 20 (1
  credit)
• Percentage of regionally extracted, harvested AND
  manufactured content by weight in the product
  (must be extracted or harvested and manufactured
  within 500 miles of job site)
• Regionally Manufactured
• 500 mile limit from jobsite
• Percentage by weight

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LEED-NC2.2 Credits

• MR 6.0 Rapidly Renewable (1 credit)
• 2.5 of total value of all building materials
• Based on weight
• Must be harvested with 10 years of growth
• Rapidly Renewable examples
• Bamboo
• Agrifiber Door Core wheat, rice based

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LEED-NC2.2 Credits

• MR 7.0 Certified Wood (1 credit)
• 50 of all wood based materials and products must
  be certified to come from FSC forests
• Based on weight, volume (or cost LEED)
• Mfg. must be 3rd party Chain of Custody Certified
• Vendor COC may be required to contribute to this
  credit
• Projects registered prior to April 7, 2008
  Manufacturers COC
• Registered April 7th and later Manufacturer and
  Vendor COC
• Certified wood product examples
• MDS Advantage with price on FSC
• FSC Door Core - stave core, particle core
• FSC Wood Veneer Expensive, limited quality
• 
  supply

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• MR 7.0 Certified Wood
• LEED only recognizes wood from forests certified
  by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC).
• FSC Control Categories
• Illegally harvested wood
• Wood harvested in violation of traditional and
  civil rights
• Wood harvested in forests where high conservation
  values are threatened by management
• Wood harvested in forests being converted to
  plantation or other non-forest use
• Wood from forests in which genetically modified
  trees are planted

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• MR 7.0 Certified Wood (1 credit)
• The percentage of wood in an assembly that is not
  FSC certified wood must be FSC Controlled Wood
• Controlled Wood must also meet the 5 control
  categories of FSC certified wood, though the
  forest may not be FSC certified
• Exotic species like Anigre, Rosewood, Mahogany,
  Teak are likely at high risk for being
  un-controlled wood
• Products with an FSC claim cannot contain
  uncontrolled wood.
• Call your manufacturer regarding exotic species
  on projects that want FSC wood!

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LEED-NC2.2 Credits

• EQ 4.4 Low Emitting Materials - Composite Wood
  Agrifiber Products must have no added
  urea-formaldehyde resins. (1 credit)
• All or nothing point category all composite
  wood and agrifiber products must have no UF, or
  no point
• Includes plywood, MDF, door core, laminates,
  engineered crossbands, etc.
• Critical point category for point selection

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Composite Wood Agrifiber Components
RAIL
STILE
CROSSBAND
CORE
STILE
VENEER
RAIL
and their assembly must have no added
urea-formaldehyde resins
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SCS Advantage Gold

• MDS price advantage
• www.SCSCERTIFIED.com
• Standard doors qualify for low emitting
  materials.
• Good Green Friendly VE option.
• If they are going for LEED EQ 4.4 this will not
  work.

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LEED Training

• Let manufacturer help with product compliance
  documentation
• Use documentation to close work set the
  standard
• Your responsibility is to help with product
  information, not fill out project paperwork
• Project paperwork is based on value to owner
• LEED builds in flexibility to meet point
  categories and register project

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Thank you!

• DHI CEP 09421-1
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