10% Extracted, Processed & Manufacturer Regionally Intent:
- Increase demand for building materials and products that are extracted and manufactured within the region. This supports indigenous resources and reduced environmental impacts from transportation.
Implementation:
- Use materials that have been extracted, harvested, recovered or manufactured within 500 miles of the site
- Minimum 10% (based on cost) of total materials value. (Use 45% rule or actual materials cost)
- Exclude MEP and elevator equipment.
- If only a fraction of the product/material is extracted, harvested, recovered or manufactured within 500 miles of the site, then only that percentage (based on weight) will contribute to the regional value.
Code:
- none
Submittal Phase:
- construction
Extra credit:
- after meeting MR 5.2 (same rules, but 20%), to achieve extra credit, use 40%
Other Materials & Resources Credits
- MR P1 – Storage and Collection of Recyclables (prerequisite)
- MR 1.1 – Building Reuse, Maintain 75% of Existing Walls, Floors, & Roof
- MR 1.2 – Building Reuse, Maintain 95% of Existing Walls, Floors & Roof
- MR 1.3 – Building Reuse, Maintain 50% of Interior Non-Structural Elements
- MR 2.1 – Construction Waste Management, Divert 50% from Disposal
- MR 2.2 – Construction Waste Management, Divert 75% from Disposal
- MR 3.1 – Materials Reuse, 5%
- MR 3.2 – Materials Reuse, 10%
- MR 4.1 – Recycled Content, 10% (post-consumer + 1/2 pre-consumer)
- MR 4.2- Recycled Content, 20% (post-consumer + 1/2 pre-consumer)
- MR 5.1 – Regional Materials, 10% Extracted, Processed & Manufactured Regionally
- MR 5.2 – Regional Materials, 20% Extracted, Processed & Manufactured Regionally
- MR 6 – Rapidly Renewable Materials
- MR 7 – Certified Wood
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Just a quick note…the MR 5 requires manufacture within 500 miles to count for credit. The information you list says “or manufactured within 500 miles of the site” The LEED NC 2.2 guide says “as well as manufactured within 500 miles” i.e. it should be an and instead of an or.
canadian reference guide 1.0 – extracted, processed AND manufactured within 500 miles.
Is it true ?:
that to earn an innovation in design, the value of materials is based on 45% of the total project budget. And then 40% regional materials must be used …
Canadian NC CGBC version of this credit:
as above OR
manufactured,processed and extracted within 1500 miles of site if shipped by ship or rail [???]
How s that possible unless the project site is located at a port or adjacent to a railway????
“Use materials that have been extracted, harvested, recovered and manufactured within 500 miles of the site”
Does any material salvaged within 500miles apply under recovered? To what does “recovered” apply? If it does count, is there synergy for locally salvaged materials under Credit 5 and Credit 3(if on structural) or credit 1 (if structural)?
Ebergst, I hope this info. is still useful in answering your question. Check MR credit 5.1 ruling on 10/18/2001 for what is considered recovered materials:
Below is an excerpt of the ruling.
“Harvesting, extraction and recovery of materials:
In response to your second point regarding the harvest, extraction and recovery of materials within a 500-mile radius, it applies to credit 5.2 IF the materials are obtained within that circle of 500 miles. Therefore, if the rubber flooring is made from 100% recycled rubber and the manufacturer obtains the rubber from a recycling facility within 500 miles (disregarding the original source), it would count towards this credit because it would be harvested from a local source. The same does apply to recycled gypsum board û if it is made from material that has been recycled within the 500-mile radius, it is considered to be locally harvested. The intent of this portion of the credit is to ultimately reduce the environmental impact resulting from transportation and to support local economies; therefore, even though some materials have an origination outside the 500-mile radius, their use as materials in a ônewö product encourages a local manufacturing economy, thereby reducing the costs and environmental impacts associated with the transportation of newly manufactured items.”
Pat, I am right in using rulings this old, due to the lack of a more recent one?
On a practice exam there is a question regarding structural timbers for a project that were salvaged from the demolition of a nearby building. The correct answer is material reuse and regional materials for the credits these materials might contribute. No manufacuterer info given but recovered locally.
Here’s one:
you have windows manufactured 600 miles away from your site. The glass has been salvaged from 100 miles away…do this count as a regional material?
nevermind it does not meet the requirement for the credit because it has to be manufactured and salved with 500 miles…tricky tricky
Gerry,
I think the glass would count based on its weight because that portion was salvaged from less than 500 miles. The frame and its weight would not count.
For LEED CI- MRc5.1 Regional Materials 20% Manufactured Regionally & MRc5.2 Regional Materials 10% extracted and manufactured regionally
My reference guide states the ID points are available for regionally manufactured for 40% and for MRc5.2 regionally extracted materials need to be at 20%.
Do you have to met both percentages? Do you get 2 points or just 1 point in addition to the points for meeting the credits.
If I refinished a door from a building 10 miles away and used it as a table top in my new building would it go towards MRc4.1 Recycled Content or MRc5.1 Regional Materials?
Jon,
The cost of the refinished doors will count as reused material (as described in NCv2.2 – MR3) and also as salvaged material in MR5, since it is obtained (harvested) within 500 miles radius. It will not qualify for MR4 as the recycled content information is unknown.
Jon,
Also, materials counted as part of MR3 cannot be used of calculations for MR1-7 (except MR5)per NC v2.2 ref. guide.
For the following question:
To calculate the percent of local materials used in a project, which information needs to be recorded? (Choose 4)
A Costs of materials extracted and manufactured within 500 miles
B Discount furniture and furnishings costs if recorded in MR Credit 3 Materials Reuse
C Materials salvaged within 500 miles
D Total materials cost
E Costs of materials purchased within 500 miles; I selected ACE, But the answer is ACD. What is wrong with E??
Reenu,
Purchased material within 500 miles for the site of the project, would not satisfy the credit intent- Material (New or Salvaged) Extracted, Processed & Manufacturer Regionally!!!
@ Reenu, the question says choose 4, shouldn’t it should be ABCD? Any comments?
Question. Keep in mind that LEED defines “manufacturing location” as “the point of FINAL ASSEMBLY.”
So what if:
1.) some iron ore gets mined 450 miles away.
2.) Then it gets shipped to the steel mill where it’s mixed with carbon, etc. and hot-rolled into some hollow steel tube members, 400 miles away.
3.) Then the members shipped to a galvanizing plant 600 miles away, and hot dipped galvanized.
4.) Then it gets shipped to a steel fabricator, 200 miles away, where they weld the galvanized members together to make some kind of fancy storefront frame.
Then it goes to your jobsite. Does the frame qualify as regional material?
Question: How to report extraction miles
A-Distance from raw material source to manufacture location is 450 miles.
B-Distance from manufacture to job site is 125 miles.
C-Distance from raw material site to job site is 325 miles (job site is in between raw material source and manufacturer).
Does this qualify for regional materials due to milage from raw material to job site of 325 miles or do you count the total distance material travels 450 + 125 = 575?
Can someone explain why A is the correct answer?
A project has a total construction cost of $1,000,000. What must the project’s total value of locally manufactured and extracted materials be to qualify for 1 point for MRc-5?
a) $45,000
b) $90,000
c) $100,000
d) $4,500
I chose C, because if the total is 1 million, and to earn c5.1 you need 10% of that to be local, then the “project’s total value of locally manufactured and extracted materials” would be $100,000, no? For a minute I thought it was a tricky question and that I was to take the default 45% materials cost, but it says specifically “value of locally manufactured and extracted materials”, not total material cost. So to me, the answer’s $100,000.
Any thoughts?
Sorry to post another question, but I just want to check that I’m understanding the logic behind this one:
A project team that would like to achieve MRc5, Regional Materials, is considering two different cabinetry assemblies that could potential apply to that credit, both of which are constructed from wheatboard. The materials for Cabinet A were extracted just 35 miles from the project site, and it was assembled 510 miles from the project site. Cabinet B is composed of materials extracted 400 miles away and assembled 300 miles away from the project site in the opposite direction, although its hinges were shipped from overseas.
Which cabinet would be preferable in applying for the Regional Materials credit, A or B?
–So, the answer is B. I guessed A, because to me, flying hinges across the Atlantic is less “green” than trucking a few more hundred miles. So, I’m not understanding why the answer is B. Is it because that the hinges (in B) & the cabinets (in A) will be measured by weight because they’re both over the 500 mile mark. So in that case, the huiges weigh less…?
Hi Allison.
I think the answer is “B” cabinet B was assembled 300 miles aways while cabine A was assembled 510 miles away. The rule states that final assembly be less than 500 miles away.
Allison,
In regard to the first question, (MR5 – total value of locally manufactured and extracted materials be to qualify for 1 point for MRc-5). The total construction cost is not the total material value. The construction cost typically includes soft and hard costs. Material cost is a hard cost (includes equipment and labor) Therefore you must extract the 45% default rate which will be $450,000, then 10% of that is $45,000. As you had indicated the correct answer is “A”. The question is tricky (like everything in the test) you need to discriminate from what in real life would sound logical from what the intent of the credit requires. Hope this helps.
Ernesto-
Thank you for the clarification. I went back to my notes and realized I had taken an incorrect note. I really appreciate your help!
Hi Denise-
I understand your point. In the end it’s a fairly simple question. It’s just the shipping overseas thing that got my mind spinning.
Thanks for the help 🙂
I have a question about steel elements.
The raw materials are extracted and havested in outside 500miles. The first place of manufacture is within 500miles, where is produced a semifinished material. The final manufacturer (steelwork) buys the semifinished material and realize the final steel element.
Can these steel elements contribute to earn MR cr5?