Materials and Resources

Question 1

Category intent/focus

Answer 1

Life cycle impacts of materials selected for the project

Amount of material diverted from landfill

Question 2

MRp1 - Storage and Collection of Recyclables

Answer 2

Easily accessible and dedicated area for the collection and storage of materials for recycling must be provided for the entire building.

Required materials:
Paper, corrugated cardboard, glass, plastics and metals.
Must also recycle 2 of:
Batteries, electronics, mercury-containing lamps

Question 3

MRp2 + MRc5 - Construction and Demolition Waste Management

Answer 3

Intent: reduce construction and demolition waste disposed of in landfills and incineration facilities by recovering, reusing, and recycling materials

Construction waste management plan:

1. Identify and establish waste diversion goals for 5+ materials (structural and non-structural)
2. Specify whether materials will be separated or commingled and where they will eventually be recycled or even donated
3. Provide major waste streams and diversion rates

2 options to earn points:

1. Diversion into multiple waste streams
2. Reduction of total waste material (source reduction)

Question 4

MRc1 - Building Life-Cycle Impact Reduction

Answer 4

Awards points for adaptive reuse of existing building resources or by reducing materials use through LCA

4 options:
1. Historic building (5 pts)
2. Abandoned or blighted building (5 pts)
3. Building and material reuse (2-4 pts)
4. Building life cycle impact reduction
    Modeled against baseline, 10% 
    reduction in 3 of these impact 
    categories:
    GWP
    Ozone layer depletion
    Acidification
    Eutrophication
    Formation of tropospheric ozone
    Depletion of non-renewable energy 
    sources

Question 5

Location Valuation Factor

Answer 5

Products must be:
1. Extracted
2. Manufactured
3. Purchased 
w/in 100miles of the project site

Materials worth 200% of their cost for credit calculations

Question 6

MRc2 to MRc4 - Building Product Disclosure and Optimization

Answer 6

Credits based on cost of materials as a % of total material cost, excluding labor

Strictly deal w/permanent building materials and MEP

Question 7

MRc2 - BPDO - Environmental Product Declarations

Answer 7

2 options:
1. Environmental Product Declarations
20+ different permanently installed products sourced from 5+ different manufacturers that meet standards
2. Multi-Attribute Optimization
50% by cost of materials are 3rd party certified products that demonstrate reduction of 3+ building LCI reduction factors (eg acidification)

Question 8

MRc3 - BPDO - Sourcing of Raw Materials

Answer 8

2 options:
1. Raw material source and extraction reporting
Self-declared or 3rd party verified CSR reports
2. Leadership extraction practices
Meet at least one of following criteria for at least 25% by cost of value of permanent installations:
EPR (50%)
Bio-Based Materials (100%)
Certified Wood (100%)
Materials Reuse (100%)
Recycled Content (Post = 100%, Pre = 50%)
Chemical Abstract Service Registration Number
Greenscreen for safer chemicals
Health product declaration open
Cradle to Cradle
Green Screen

Question 9

MRc4 - BPDO - Material Ingredients

Answer 9

Intent: select products whose ingredients are transparently reported and have verified improved life cycle impacts through mitigating the use of harmful substances

1. Material ingredient reporting (1 pt)
2. Ingredient Optimization (1 pt)
3. Supply Chain Optimization (1pt)