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LEED-NC - Green Building Rating System (Canada - version 2009)
Compliance of our products with LEED-Version 2009
MR Credit 4.1 - Recycled Content: 10% - Use material with recycled content such that the sum of post-consumer recycled content plus one-half of the pre-consumer content constitutes at least 10 % of the total value of the materials in the project.
- Our main steel supplier has specific recycling policies. Our galvannealed steel is comprised of 58% recycled steel. The post-consumer content is 20%; the post-industrial content is 25%; the balance 13% is home scrap. Our stainless stee is comprised of 80% recycled content. The post-consumer content is 20%; the post-industrial content is 50%; the balance 10% is home scrap.
- 1 point
MR Credit 4.2 - Recycled Content: 20% - Use materials with recycled content such that the sum of post-consumer recycled content plus one-half of the pre-consumer content constitutes at least 20% of the total value of the materials in the project.
- 1 additional point to MR 4.1
MR Credit 5.1 - Regional Material: 20% - Use a minimum of 20% of building materials or products that have been extracted, harvested or recovered within a radius of 800 km (2400 km if delivered by train or by boat) from the final assembly site. The final assembly site must be located within a radius of 800 km (2400 km if delivered by train or by boat) from the jobsite.
- de La Fontaine's manufacturing facilities are located in Sherbrooke, Québec Canada and Boston Massachusetts USA.
Ore extraction from our main steel supplier is coming from:
ArcelorMittal Minorca Mine (Virginia, MN, USA)
Hibbing Mine (Hibbing, MN, USA)
Wabush Mine (Wabush, NF, Canada)
- 1 point
MR Credit 5.2 - Regional Material: 30% - According to MR 5.1 use a minimum of 30% of building materials or products that have been extracted, harvested or recovered within a radius of 800 km (2400 km if delivered by train or by boat) from the final assembly site. The final assembly site must be located within a radius of 800 km (2400 km if delivered by train or by boat) from the jobsite.
- 1 additional point to MR 5.1
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