Texas Stone Designs Manufactured Stone LEED Certification Information
Texas Stone Designs’ manufactured stone veneers can assist you in reaching your goal of LEED certification. To obtain LEED certification, project teams should register their project online during the early phases of the project. The LEED website can be found at www.leedbuilding.org. The following information will describe the areas where our manufactured stone veneer may help you earn points toward certification. Every project is unique and the number of points achieved by using our stone veneer may vary depending on the particular project. This information is given only to help guide you and cannot be used alone. LEED certification is based on the project as a whole, not just a single component.
LEED Credit Category
Energy & Atmosphere—Optimize
Energy Performance
1-10 points may be earned towards certification if the building complies with ASHRAE/IESNA Standard 90.1- 2004, all of the prerequisites of the Energy & Atmosphere category are met, and the building is shown to have a percentage reduction in energy use.
Texas Stone Designs’ manufactured stone veneers help to maximize energy performance of the building envelope due to the insulation properties of lightweight concrete.
This is applicable when Texas Stone Designs’ manufactured stone veneers are applied to exterior walls.
The project team is responsible for conducting an energy analysis that complies with LEED requirements.
LEED Credit Category
Material & Resource—Regional Materials
1-2 points may be earned towards certification depending on what percentage of the materials used on the project were manufactured within 500 miles. One point may be earned if 10% (by cost) of the total materials value was manufactured within 500 miles. Two points may be earned if 20% (by cost) of the total materials value was manufactured within 500 miles.
Projects within 500 miles of our manufacturing facility may be able to use the cost of our materials toward LEED certification. See MR Credit 5.1 and 5.2 for full details.