Fabricated Steel

RECYCLED CONTENT – LEED Credits 4.1 and 4.2

J. R. Hoe & Sons, Inc. is a fabricator of structural and miscellaneous steel used in commercial/industrial buildings and various infrastructure projects. The structural steel shapes used in fabrication are primarily sourced from mini-mill producers which utilize Electric Arc Furnace (EAF) technology. EAF’s use post-consumer scrap steel material as their major melt stock and therefore produce steel shapes of high recycled content.

NUCOR, the leading EAF steel producer, in the United States published the following average recycled content:

STEEL SHAPE TOTAL SCRAP STEEL TOTAL OTHER IRON POST-CONSUMER CONTENT PRE-CONSUMER CONTENT
Bar/Angle 99.9% .1% 87% 13%
Beam 82.9% 17.1% 73% 9.9%
Plate 92.2% 7.8% 81% 11.2%

In LEED Project Checklist – Materials and Resources:

  • 1 LEED point awarded if total recycled content of building materials exceeds 10%.
  • 2 LEED points if this total exceeds 20% of project.

REGIONAL MATERIALS – LEED Credits 5.1 and 5.2

J. R Hoe & Sons fabricated steel is primarily sourced from regional steel mill producers. The mill producers track the origin of scrap shipments to their facilities and may approximate the amount of scrap extracted from any project site region.

Primary Mill Sources include:

NUCOR: Darlington, SC (Bar); Hugher, SC (Beam); Tuscaloosa,AL (Plate)

Steel Dynamics: Roanoke, VA (Bar); Huntington, WV (Beam)

Gerdau-Ameristeel: Cartersville, GA (Beam)

In LEED Project Checklist – Materials and Resources:

  • 1 LEED point awarded if 10% or more of building materials are extracted/ manufactured within 500 miles of project site.
  • 2 LEED points awarded if 20% are regionally produced within 500 miles of project site.

If you need further information or would like to include J.R.HOE & Sons castings as part of your LEED submittal, please contact: Alice Johnson – ajohnson@jrhoe.com