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| Goals of Materials and Resources |
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| Reducing negative environmental impacts related to building materials and material waste |
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| Storage and collection of recyclables. |
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| Building Reuse--Maintain existing walls, floors, and roof |
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| Maintain interior nonstructural elements |
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| Construction waste management |
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| Rapidly renewable materials |
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| MR Prerequisite 1 requirements |
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| Easily accessible area that serves the entire building and is dedicated to collection |
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| MR Prerequisite materials |
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Paper
Corrugated cardboard
Glass
Plastics
Metals |
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| Areas included in MR Credit 1.1 |
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| Structural floor, roof decking, exterior skin framing |
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| MR Credit 1.2 Requirements, what does this include? |
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| Use existing interior elements in at least 50% (by area), includes interior walls, doors, floor coverings, and ceiling systems |
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| 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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| Total area of finished ceilings, finished floors, full height walls and demountable partitions, interior doors and built-in case goods |
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| 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 |
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| 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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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): |
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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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| fees charged by a landfill for disposal of waste volumes. fee typically quoted for one ton of waste |
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| Sum of refurbished materials must constitute at least 5 or 10% of total project value. |
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| 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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| 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 |
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| International Standard ISO Environmental Labels and Declarations--Self Declared Environmental Claims |
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| Assembly recycled content |
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| percentages of pre and post consumer content. Dividing weight of recycled content by overall weight of the assembly |
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| 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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| material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process: planer shavings, sawdust, etc |
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| Materials and products are from within 500 miles of the project site for a minimum of 10% or 20% |
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| 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 |
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| Harvested in a 10 year or less cycle |
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| the energy used during the entire life cycle of a product |
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| 50% of wood based products used are certified with the FSC |
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