LEED

What is LEED?

Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design is the industry-recognized, voluntary standard that defines high-performance green buildings and interiors — which are healthier, more environmentally responsible and more profitable structures. The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has developed rating systems for all aspects of the built environment.

How Can Wilson Partitions Help?

By choosing Wilson Partitions interior aluminum frames, you can be sure that the aluminum material we use is recycled and manufactured on site.

The weighted scrap content of our extrusions is 47.9-percent. This includes a post-consumer scrap content of 11.1-percent and a post-industrial scrap content of 36.8-percent. The remaining 52.1-percent of the extrusions is prime aluminum.

Please contact us to provide a formal letter specific to your project.

As part of our commitment to the environment, all of our products comply with the LEED for Commercial Interiors Rating System (LEED-CI).

We will provide a formal, project-specific letter at your request!

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Wilson Partitions interior aluminum frames can be used to obtain points for the following:

MR Credit 3.1: Resource Reuse, 5%

1 point

Intent
Reuse building materials and products in order to reduce demand for virgin materials and to reduce waste, thereby reducing impacts associated with the extraction and processing of virgin resources.

Requirements
Use salvaged, refurbished or reused materials for at least 5% of building (construction) materials, excluding furniture and furnishings.

Submittals
Provide the LEED-CI Letter Template, signed by the architect, interior designer, owner or other responsible party, declaring that the credit requirements have been met and listing each material or product used to meet the credit. Include details demonstrating that the project incorporates the required percentage of reused materials and products, showing their costs and the total cost of all materials for the project.

MR Credit 3.1: Resource Reuse, 5%

1 point in addition to MR 3.1

Requirements
Use salvaged, refurbished or reused materials for at least 10% of building (construction) materials, excluding furniture and furnishings.

Submittals
Provide the LEED-CI Letter Template, signed by the architect, interior designer, owner or other responsible party, declaring that the credit requirements have been met and listing each material or product used to meet the credit. Include details demonstrating that the project incorporates the required percentage of reused materials and products and showing their costs and the total cost of materials for the project.

MR Credit 4.1: Recycled Content, 10% (post-consumer + 1/2 pre-consumer)

1 point

Intent
Increase demand for building products that incorporate recycled content materials, therefore reducing impacts resulting from extraction and processing of virgin materials.

Requirements
Use materials, including furniture and furnishings, with recycled content such that the sum of post-consumer recycled content plus one-half of the post-industrial content constitutes at least 10% of the total value of the materials in the project.

The value of the recycled content portion of a material or furnishing shall be determined by dividing the weight of recycled content in the item by the total weight of all material in the item, then multiplying the resulting percentage by the total cost ($) of the item.

Mechanical and electrical components shall not be included in this calculation. Plumbing products, however, may be included. Recycled content materials shall be defined in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission document, Guides for the Use of Environmental Marketing Claims, 16 CFR 260.7 (e), available here.

Submittals
Provide the LEED-CI Letter Template, signed by the architect, owner or other responsible party, declaring that the above requirements have been met and listing the recycled content products used. Include details demonstrating that the project incorporates the required percentage of recycled content materials and products and showing their cost and percentage(s) of post-consumer and/or post-industrial content, and the total cost of all materials for the project (excluding mechanical and electrical equipment).

MR Credit 4.2: Recycled Content, 20% (post-consumer + 1/2 pre-consumer)

1 point in addition to MR 4.1

Intent
Increase demand for building products that have incorporated recycled content material, thereby reducing the impacts resulting from extraction and processing of virgin materials.

Requirements
Use materials, including furniture and Furnishings, 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.

The value of the recycled content portion of a material shall be determined by dividing the weight of recycled content in the item by the total weight of all material in the item, then multiplying the resulting percentage by the total cost ($) of the item.

Submittals
Provide the LEED-CI Letter Template, signed by the architect, owner or other responsible party, declaring that the above requirements have been met and listing the recycled content products used. Include details demonstrating that the project incorporates the required percentage of recycled content materials and products and showing their cost and percentage(s) of post-consumer and/or pre-consumer content, and the total cost of all materials for the project (excluding mechanical and electrical equipment).

MR Credit 5.1: Regional Materials, 20% Manufactured Regionally

1 point

Intent
Increase demand for building materials and products that are extracted and manufactured within the region, thereby supporting the regional economy and reducing the environmental impacts resulting from transportation.

Requirements
Use a minimum of 20% of the combined value of construction and Division 12 (Furniture) materials and products that are manufactured regionally within a radius of 500 miles. Manufacturing refers to the final assembly of components into the building product that is furnished and installed by the tradesmen. For example, if the hardware comes from Dallas, Texas, the lumber from Vancouver, British Columbia, and the joist is assembled in Kent, Washington, then the location of the final assembly is Kent, Washington.

Submittals
Provide the LEED-CI Letter Template, signed by the architect, interior designer, owner or other responsible party, declaring that the credit requirements have been met. Include calculations demonstrating that the project incorporates the required percentage of regional materials/products and showing their cost, percentage of regional components, distance from project to the manufacturer, and the total cost of all materials for the project.

MR Credit 5.2: Regional Materials, 10% Extracted and Manufactured Regionally

1 Point

Requirements
In addition to the requirements of MR 5.1, use a minimum of 10% of the combined value of construction and Division 12 (Furniture) materials and products extracted, harvested or recovered, as well as manufactured, within 500 miles of the project.

Submittals
Provide the LEED Letter Template, signed by the architect, interior designer, owner or other responsible party, declaring that the credit requirements have been met. Include calculations demonstrating that the project incorporates the required percentage of regionally extracted and manufactured materials/products and showing their cost, percentage of regional components, distance from project to the points of extraction and manufacture, and the total cost of all materials for the project.

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