MRc6: Rapidly Renewable Materials
This credit helps encourage people to use rapidly renewable materials in their project. These rapidly renewable materials include things such as bamboo, wool, cotton insulation, agrifiber, linoleum, wheatboard, strawboard and cork. The reason that using rapidly renewable materials is considered “Green” is because they are very abundant and easy to renew. Wood is considered a renewable resource because after all, it does end up growing back. The only problem is that it takes decades for a tree to grow to the point where it can be efficiently harvested. These rapidly renewable materials are ready for harvesting year after year.
The requirement to achieve a point for this credit is to use rapidly renewable materials for 2.5% of your total building value. If you increase this value to 5%, you are eligible for an exemplary performance point.
This is part of the construction submittal to prove that the materials are installed as planned and required.