Concrete

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Requirements

Credits

RMCC Products That Can Help

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Credit 5.1 - Site Development: Protect or Restore Habitat

Implementing concrete parking garages within buildings can limit site disturbance. Parking garages within structures help maintain existing natural areas that would be taken out by paved parking.

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Concrete for parking garages

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Credit 5.2 – Site Development: Maximize Open Space

Concrete parking garages on lower floors can be used to help reduce the footprint of the development.  Need to exceed the local zoning’s open space requirement by 25%.

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Concrete

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Credit 6.1 – Stormwater Design: Quantity Control

Use of pervious concrete can reduce rate and quantity of stormwater runoff. If building site has an existing imperviousness of greater than 50 % the rate and quantity of stormwater runoff must be reduced by 25%. If existing imperviousness is less than 50% the postdevelopment discharge rate and quantity from site can not exceed the pre-development rate and quantity

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Pervious

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Credit 7.1 – Heat Island Effect: Non-Roof

Provide any combination of the following strategies for 50% of the site hardscape (including roads, sidewalks, courtyards and parking lots):
   - Shade (within 5 years of occupancy
   - Paving materials with a Solar Reflectance Index of at least 29
   - Open grid pavement system
OR
Place a minimum of 50% of parking spaces under cover (defined as under ground, under deck, under roof or under a building).

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Concrete. The Solar Reflectivity for concrete is between .35 and .40. Must have a minimum of .29 SRI in order to qualify for credit.

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Credit 4.1 – 10% Recycled Content

Using materials with recycled content so 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.

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Fly Ash, Recycled concrete road base

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Credit 4.2 – 20% Recycled Content

Using materials with recycled content so that the sum of post-consumer recycled content plus one-half of the post-industrial content constitutes at least 20% of the total value of the materials in the project.

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Fly Ash, Recycled concrete road base

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Credit 5.1 – Regional Materials: 10% Extracted, Processed, and Manufactured Regionally

Use building materials that have been extracted, harvested or recovered, as well as manufactured, within 500 miles of the project site for a minimum of 10% (based on cost) of the total materials value.

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Credit 5.2 – Regional Materials: 20% Extracted, Processed, and Manufactured Regionally

Use building materials that have been extracted, harvested or recovered, as well as manufactured, within 500 miles of the project site for a minimum of 20% (based on cost) of the total materials value.

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