Section 2: Individual LEED Credit Reviews
Item SN-5 (Office Building) reviews the cost
materials (i.e. plywood, particleboard, or mdf
implications of earning credit EQ-4.4 in
manufactured with urea formaldehyde).
conjunction with credit MR-7 (Certified Wood)
In both the Courthouse and Office Building
and credit ID-1.4B (Exceed Certified Wood
models, cost premiums have been defined for all
Criteria, 75%).
wood casework items and wood doors. For the
casework items, standard particleboard, plywood,
or mdf substrate boards are replaced with an mdf
substrate using an MDI binder. For solid core
wood doors, the standard particleboard cores and
cross-banding layers are replaced with LSL cores
and formaldehyde-free cross-banding.
Summary of First Cost Impacts
Courthouse (New Construction, 262,000 GSF)
Total Credit Cost ......................................5,308
Cost Impact ($/GSF)...........................
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.74/GSF
Cost Impact (%)............................................ 0.79%
Office Building (Modernization, 306,600 GSF)
Total Credit Cost ........................................ ,429
Cost Impact ($/GSF)...........................
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.30/GSFCost Impact (%), Min. Facade.................... 0.23%
Cost Impact (%), Full Facade ..................... 0.23%
Additional Considerations
The composite wood credit becomes more
complicated when it is pursued in conjunction with
Credit MR-7 (Certified Wood). The issues are
reviewed in more detail as part of the "synergistic
credit" write-ups of Section 3.
Synergistic Credits
Item SN-4 (Courthouse) reviews the cost
implications of earning credit EQ-4.4 in
conjunction with credit MR-7 (Certified Wood).
Item SN-5 (Courthouse) reviews the cost
implications of earning credit EQ-4.4 in
conjunction with credit MR-7 (Certified Wood)
and credit ID-1.4B (Exceed Certified Wood
Criteria, 75%).
Item SN-3 (Office Building) reviews the cost
implications of earning credit EQ-4.4 in
conjunction with credit MR-7 (Certified Wood).
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