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Materials and Resources
Materials and resources lecture flashcards.
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Civil Engineering
Pre-School
03/31/2011

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Goals of Materials and Resources
Definition
Reducing negative environmental impacts related to building materials and material waste
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MR Prerequisite 1
Definition
Storage and collection of recyclables.
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MR Credit 1.1
Definition
Building Reuse--Maintain existing walls, floors, and roof
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MR Credit 1.2
Definition
Maintain interior nonstructural elements
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MR Credit 2
Definition
Construction waste management
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MR Credit 3
Definition
Materials reuse
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MR Credit 4
Definition
Recycled Content
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MR Credit 5
Definition
Regional materials
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MR Credit 6
Definition
Rapidly renewable materials
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MR Credit 7
Definition
Certified wood
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MR Prerequisite 1 requirements
Definition
Easily accessible area that serves the entire building and is dedicated to collection
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MR Prerequisite materials
Definition
Paper
Corrugated cardboard
Glass
Plastics
Metals
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Areas included in MR Credit 1.1
Definition
Structural floor, roof decking, exterior skin framing
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MR Credit 1.2 Requirements, what does this include?
Definition
Use existing interior elements in at least 50% (by area), includes interior walls, doors, floor coverings, and ceiling systems
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Prior Condition
Definition
the state the project was in at the time it was selected. removing the demolition work from the project scope by making it the building owner's responsibility defeats the objective of this credit.
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Completed Design Area
Definition
Total area of finished ceilings, finished floors, full height walls and demountable partitions, interior doors and built-in case goods
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Retained components
Definition
portions of the finished ceilings, finished floors, full height walls and demountable partitions, interior doors and built-in case goods that existed in the prior condition
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Interior non-structural components reuse
Definition
determined by dividing the area of retained components by the larger of the area of the prior condition or area of completed design
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MR Credit 2 requirements
Definition
Recycle/salvage construction and demolition debris
Develop and implement construction waste mgmt plan that identifies materials and sorting method
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MR Credit 2 requires tracking the following (4):
Definition
Type of waste generated
Quantity of waste diverted by category
Location of receiving agent by type
Percent diverted vs. total waste generated
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Tipping fees
Definition
fees charged by a landfill for disposal of waste volumes. fee typically quoted for one ton of waste
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MR Credit 3 requirements
Definition
Sum of refurbished materials must constitute at least 5 or 10% of total project value.
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Chain of custody
Definition
Tracking procedure to document the status of a product from the point of harvest or extraction to the ultimate consumer end use
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MR Credit 4 requirements
Definition
The sum of post-consumer recycled content plus 1/2 pre-consumer content contributes at least 10% or 20% of total project value
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Reference standard for MR Credit 4
Definition
International Standard ISO Environmental Labels and Declarations--Self Declared Environmental Claims
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Assembly recycled content
Definition
percentages of pre and post consumer content. Dividing weight of recycled content by overall weight of the assembly
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Post-consumer waste
Definition
material generated by households or by commercial, industrial and institutional facilities in their role as end-users of the product which can no longer be used for its intended purpose
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Pre-consumer content
Definition
material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process: planer shavings, sawdust, etc
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MR Credit 5 Requirements
Definition
Materials and products are from within 500 miles of the project site for a minimum of 10% or 20%
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MR Credit 6 Requirements
Definition
use rapidly renewable materials for 2.5% of total value of all building materials and products
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Definition of rapidly renewable material
Definition
Harvested in a 10 year or less cycle
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Embodied energy
Definition
the energy used during the entire life cycle of a product
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MR Credit 7
Definition
50% of wood based products used are certified with the FSC
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