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LEED GA: Green Associate
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Mainly artificial structures--such as pavements (roads - sidewalks - driveways and parking lots) that are covered by impenetrable (impervious) materials such as asphalt - concrete - brick - and stone--and rooftops. soils compacted by urban developmen
Life Cycle Costing (LCC)
Rapidly Renewable Materials
Impervious Surfaces
Floor Area Ratio
2. What is acknowledged as one of the greatest threats to surface-water quality?
Alternative Fuel Vehicle
Nonpoint-source pollution
Bake-Out
Light Trespass
3. Building design that takes advantage of the local climate to provide some or all of the heating - cooling - lighting and ventilation needs of the occupants
Certificate of occupancy
Passive Design
250 square ft
Construction and Demolition Debris
4. Like carbon dioxide or methane - which contributes to potential climate change
Greenhouse Gases
Diversity of Uses
Construction Waste Management Plan
Brownfields
5. A process used to remove VOCs from a bldg by elevating the tempt in the fully furnished & ventilated bldg prior to human occupancy.
Mass Transit
Retrocommissioning
Metering
Bake-Out
6. A contractual benchmark that usually corresponds to the point at which a client could occupy a nearly completed space.
Substantial completion
Harvested Rainwater
CO2 Concentrations/Monitoring
ASHRAE (ash-ray)
7. Guidance tool designed for use by building professionals to help manage indoor air quality in commercial buildings - which should be a part of indoor air quality management plans
Indoor Environmental Quality
Raingarden
Renewable Energy
Indoor Air Quality Building Education and Assessment Model (I-BEAM)
8. Which LEED rating systems has more than 100 points
MERV or Minimum Efficiency Reporting Value
Positive Feedback Loop
Innovation in Design & Regional Priority has 100 with 10 bonus points. Leed for home has 125.
Portable water uses
9. Concept of integrative design emphasizes
Connections & Communication btw professionals & throughout the life of a project
Diversity of Uses
Gallons per Flush
Floor Area Ratio
10. Passenger transportation services which are available for use by the general public - such as trains - subways and busses
Triple Bottom Line
Carbon Footprint
Mass Transit
Cradle to Cradle
11. Narrative - photo/render - elevations - floor plans - project details - and boundary (Project - LEED - & property)
General requirement for LEED certification documentation
Community Connectivity
Reuse
Smart Growth
12. Mixture of smoke from the burning end of a cigarette - pipe - or cigar and smoke exhaled by the smoker
Smart Growth
Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS)
Previously Developed Site
Cradle to Grave
13. Gives preference to the purchase of environmentally preferable products and the companies that supply them
CO2 Concentrations/Monitoring
Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS)
Montreal Protocol
Sustainable Purchasing Policy
14. System that constantly takes in items from outside the system - used them and then released them as waste. this system has no feedback loop. think of a normal home where groceries - products - or water come into the house - are used and then released
Open System
Credit Interpretation Rulings (CIRs)
LEED Technical Advisory Groups (TAG)
Low Impact Development
15. Advertising a product or policy to be more beneficial to the environment than is true
Green Washing
Pedestrian Access
To prioritize the relative impact of credits on GHG emissions
Development Density
16. Material - other than the principle product - generated as a consequence of an industrial process or as a breakdown product in a living system (EPA)
Renewable Energy
70%
Indoor Air Quality
Byproduct
17. Indigenous or exotic plants that spread outside cultivated areas and can damage environmental or economical resources. they grow quickly and aggressively - spreading and displacing other plants
Credit Interpretation Rulings (CIRs)
Street Grid Density
Potable Water
Invasive Plants
18. This concept is thought of as more sustainable. ex: plants grow in a field - produce oxygen - take in water - then die and decay which helps plants grow. these can be linked so one system uses the byproducts of another
Closed System
Green Cleaning
% of total land are that does not allow moisture penetration
Design Development
19. Landscape elements designed to slow the flow of stormwater and increase ground water recharge while also removing silt and pollution from surface runoff water. they consist of a depressed drainage course with gently sloped sides and filled with veget
Built Environment
Bioswale
Xeriscaping
Site Disturbance
20. Resistance to penetration by a liquid and is calculated as the percentage of area covered by a paving system that does not allow moisture to soak into the ground
Emissivity (of a material)
LEED Intent
Imperviousness
Conventional Irrigation
21. The presence in water of enough harmful or objectionable material to damage the water's quality (EPA)
LEED Credit
Water Pollution
Life Cycle Costing (LCC)
Extra categories for LEED for Neighborhood Development
22. The official recognition by a local bldg department that bldg conforms to applicable bldg & safety codes.
Certificate of occupancy
Environmentally Preferable Products
Biomass
Compliant w/ the green design criteria
23. Purchase price of a hard asset such as masonry - wood - steel - carpet - tile - mechanical systems - roofing
Open Grid Pavement
Hard Cost
Credit Interpretation Rulings (CIRs)
Energy Star Portfolio Manager
24. In green building - location includes the natural context (climate - plants - wind - sun) the social context (cultural history - traditions - local regulations) - and an infrastructural context (roads - local materials - utilities - public transit)
Location
LEED Intent
Carbon Neutrality
Pedestrian Access
25. Method which minimizes the use of water and fetilizer by allowing water to drip slowly to the roots of plants - either onto the soil surface or directly onto the root zone - through a network of valves - pipes - tubing and emitters
Chiller
Wet Pond (retention pond)
Emissivity (of a material)
Drip Irrigation
26. Exterior surface of the building including all walls - windows - floor and roof. separates the building's inside from the outside
Building Envelope (building shell)
Extra categories for LEED for Neighborhood Development
Integrated Process
The % of occupants who have direct control over tempt - airflow - & lighting in their spaces.
27. What is reduced when a project uses reclaimed water in its cooling towers?
Reg a project w/ GBCI - pay applicable review fees - & submit doc.
Portable water uses
% of total land are that does not allow moisture penetration
Construction Waste Management Plan
28. A project that can produce all the energy it requires on site yet still might be connected to the regular utility grid - for example - using power from the grid when there is no wind - and providing power to the grid from wind turbines on windy days
Project owner - Architect - Engineers - Commissioning authority - General Contractor - Facilities staff - Building users.
LEED Online
Net-Zero Energy
Fossil Fuels
29. 1) Cost of green bldg Each Prerequisite and Credit has 2 major components - and those are: Intents and Requirements
33%-39%
Carbon Neutrality
Cradle to Cradle
Life-cycle cost analysis
30. Doing this in the air for the purposes of assessing indoor air quality
CO2 Concentrations/Monitoring
Location & Linkages. Awareness & Education
Sulfur dioxide & Nitrogen oxide
Transportation - Site selection - Site design & management - & Stormwater management
31. The application of solar cells for energy by converting sunlight directly into electricity
Material Reuse
Development Density
Photovoltaic Energy (PV)
Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
32. The careful utilization of a natural resource in order to prevent depletion
Conservation
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
Air Quality Standards
Installing submeters & using ENERGY STAR certified cloths washers
33. LID is an approach to land development (or re-development) that works with nature to manage stormwater as close to its source as possible (EPA)
Design Development
Low Impact Development
Indoor Environmental Quality
% of water delivered by irrigation equipment that is actually used for irrigation & not evaporate/blowaway/fall on hardscape
34. Potential credits and categories that may be used in upcoming versions of the LEED rating systems
Hybrid Vehicle
LEED Pilot Credit Library
Reduce light transpass
Climate Change
35. Evaluation of the total cost of a building or product over its useful life - including initial - maintenance - repair and replacement costs as well as savings. LCC evaluates economic performance.
Custodial Effectiveness Assessments
MERV or Minimum Efficiency Reporting Value
Life Cycle Costing (LCC)
Heat Island Effect
36. Area of the building as defined by the perimeter of the structure. parking lots - walkways - and landscaping are not included
Mass Transit
Carbon Neutrality
Building Footprint
Global Warming
37. Green Bldg can reduce how much Solid Waste?
Waste Diversion
70%
Open Grid Pavement
Space heating (38%). Lighting (20%)
38. Products made from agricultural fiber such as wheat board and straw board
Indoor Environmental Quality Management Plan
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
Agrifiber Product
Gallons per Flush & Gallons per Minute
39. The min' floor area for NC - CS - Schools - EB - and O&M
Bioswale
Economic prosperity - environmental stewardship - & social responsibility.
1000 square ft
Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan
40. During Construction Phases - ________________ is the actual construction - Commissioning take place near the end of construction - once the system have been installed and are operable. Includes Substantial Completion - Final Completion - Certificate
Xeriscaping
Global Warming
Building Envelope (building shell)
Construction Administration
41. What level of CO2 concentrations indicates inadequate ventilation?
Construction Waste Management Plan
Retrocommissioning
ASHRAE (ash-ray)
Above 530ppm (parts per million).
42. Solid - liquid or gaseous fuel derived from relatively recently dead biological material and is distinguished from fossil fuels - which are derived from long dead biological material
Biofuel
Building Envelope (building shell)
Daylighting
Biodiversity
43. A systematic process of assuring that a building and its systems performs in accordance with the design intent and the owner's requirements
Commissioning
Life Cycle Costing (LCC)
Location & Linkages. Awareness & Education
LEED Online
44. The relationship btw the total bldg floor area & the allowable land area the bldg can cover.
Integrated Pest Management
Life Cycle Costing (LCC)
24%-50%
Floor-To-Area
45. Waste materials diverted from traditional disposal such as landfills or incineration to be recycled - composted - or re-used. (EPA) measured in tons
Waste Diversion
LEED Intent
Cooling Tower
Rating system and Project size
46. An expanded baseline for measuring performance - adding social and environmental dimensions to the traditional profit measure - so decisions are viewed in the long term with their impact on people - the planet - and profit
Ambient Temperature
Dry Pond (detention ponds)
Drip Irrigation
Triple Bottom Line
47. The licensed-pro exemption is used by a project team to do what?
Dry Pond (detention ponds)
Bypass otherwise required submittals
Environmental Sustainability
LEED Online
48. The slow release of a gas that was trapped or adsorbed in some material. off-gassing can be significant if it collects in a closed environment where air is stagnant or recirculated and the gas has negative health effects. off-gassing example: new car
Carbon Overlay Tool
Off-Gassing (outgassing)
Per-Consumer Content
Zoning
49. Any substance introduced into the environment that adversely affects the usefulness of a resource or the health of humans - animals - or ecosystems (EPA)
Pollutant
LEED Points
Solid Waste Management Policy
Compliant w/ the green design criteria
50. A natural resource that cannot be produced - re-grown - regenerated - or reused on a scale which can sustain its consumption rate. these resources often exist in a fixed amount - or are consumed much faster than nature can recreate them. fossil fuels
Flush-Out
Integrated Design
Non-renewable Resource
Environmental Sustainability