Green Building LEED Program

MT Manufacturing Services is Arizona’s #1 volume made-to-order manufacturing choice for interior designers and architects working on green building projects.

MT Manufacturing Services offers sustainable, GREENGUARD CERTIFIED, 100% post-industrial recycled/recovered content work surfaces and cabinets to meet or exceed the requirements for LEED Credits and Sustainable Furniture Purchasing by The U.S. Green Building Council.

USGBC LEED Information

“LEED, or Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, is the most widely used green building rating system in the world. Available for virtually all building, community and home project types, LEED provides a framework to create healthy, highly efficient and cost-saving green buildings. LEED certification is a globally recognized symbol of sustainability achievement.”
~ U.S. Green Building Council

  • ✓ 2.2 million + – square feet is LEED certified every day with more than 92,000 projects using LEED.
  • ✓ Flexible – LEED works for all building types anywhere. LEED is in over 165 countries and territories.
  • ✓ Sustainable – LEED buildings save energy, water, resources, generate less waste and support human health.
  • ✓ Value – LEED buildings attract tenants, cost less to operate and boost employee productivity and retention.
  • ✓ LEED v4 Improvements – A stronger focus on materials to get a better understanding of what’s in them and the effect those components have on human health and the environment.

LEED works for all buildings everywhere, regardless of where they are in their life cycle. From hospitals to offices, from historical buildings to those still in the design phase, there’s a LEED for every type of building project. MT Manufacturing Services focuses on all of the available project types and supports is customers on every level of certification.

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USGBC Sustainable Furniture Purchasing Information

LEED 2009 Sustainable purchasing – furniture MRc2.2 | Possible 1 point

Intent

To reduce the environmental harm from materials purchased, used, and disposed of in the operations within buildings.

Requirements

MR credit 2.2 – furniture
Achieve sustainable purchases of at least 40% of total purchases of furniture (by cost) during the performance period. Sustainable purchases are those that meet one or more of the following criteria:

  • ✓ Purchases contain at least 10% post consumer and/or 20% postindustrial material.
  • ✓ Purchases contain at least 70% material salvaged from off-site or outside the organization.
  • ✓ Purchases contain at least 70% material salvaged from on-site, through an internal organization materials and equipment reuse program.
  • ✓ Purchases contain at least 50% rapidly renewable material.
  • ✓ Purchases contain at least 50% material harvested and processed or extracted and processed within a 500 mile (800 kilometer) radius of the project. Building materials or products shipped by rail or water have been extracted, harvested or recovered, as well as manufactured within a 500 mile (800 kilometer) total travel distance of the project site using a weighted average determined through the following formula:
    (Distance by rail/3) + (Distance by inland waterway/2) + (Distance by sea/15) + (Distance by all other means) ≤ 500 miles [800 kilometers].

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