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