LEED Implications of All Builtin Furniture

In the previous post buying and moving furniture was found to be a significant monthly expense. But there are also environmental costs to consider. The 43,000,000 renters moving an apartment full of furniture every few years constitute a huge consumption of energy. It requires a vast fleet of moving vehicles unnecessary with the adoption of an all builtin design strategy. Furthermore contemporary furniture does not travel well and is often disposed of when tenants move creating both a landfill burden and a replacement resource burden. Both such environmental burdens are avoided in an all builtin scenario. These aspects of sustainability have regrettably been neglected by the LEED community and my hope is that by raising awareness of the problem all builtins can receive a rigorous and quantifiable LEED analysis.