[GBlist] Wood: "recycled" and/or "rapidly renewable"?

[Sandra Leibowitz <sleibowitz@earthlink.net>]

For a wood-framed building seeking LEED certification, the following
issues have come up:

1) Would finger-jointed lumber count as "recycled material"?  Has any
one had any experience with this from particular manufacturers?  Is it
simply an efficient use of the material or might one say that the short
lengths are "post-industrial scrap"?

2) What fast-growing species would count as "rapidly renewable"?  The
LEED Reference Guide doesn't address this at all except to include
"poplar OSB" in a short list of building products from rapidly renewable
materials and to generally describe a maximum 10-year
harvesting/regeneration rate (don't have the exact wording here).


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