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

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.

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…?

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?

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?

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!!!

Also, materials counted as part of MR3 cannot be used of calculations for MR1-7 (except MR5)per NC v2.2 ref. guide.

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.

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?

“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?

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)?

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????