Material and Resource Points
The LEED for New Construction Rating System is designed to guide and distinguish high-performance commercial and institutional projects, including office buildings, high-rise residential buildings, government buildings, recreational facilities, manufacturing plants and laboratories.
Points have been distributed as follows. Required "prerequisites" in each category receive no points
Materials and Resources 14 Possible Points
- Prerequisite 1: Storage and Collection of Recyclables
- Credit 1.1: Building Reuse—Maintain Existing Walls, Floors and Roof
- Credit 1.2: Building Reuse—Maintain Existing Interior Nonstructural Elements
- Credit 2: Construction Waste Management
- Credit 3: Materials Reuse
- Credit 4: Recycled Content
- Credit 5: Regional Materials
- Credit 6: Rapidly Renewable Materials
- Credit 7: Certified Wood
Explanation of Materials and Resources (14 points total)
- Storage and collection of recyclables (required)
- Building reuse:
- 75% reuse of building structure and shell excluding windows (1 pt)
- 100% reuse of building structure and 50% of walls, floors, ceilings (1 pt)
- Construction waste reuse or recycling:
- 50% diversion (1 pt)
- 75% diversion (1 pt)
- Reuse of existing materials:
- 5% salvaged or refurbished materials (1 pt)
- 10% salvaged or refurbished materials (1 pt)
- Recycled content:
- 10% recycled content (1 pt)
- Additional 10% (1 pt)
- Use of local materials:
- Manufacture within and Extraction within 500 miles (800 km) of building site, 10% (1 pt)
- Additional 10% (1 pt)
- Rapidly renewable materials (1 pt)
- Certified Wood (1 pt)
