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LEED GA: Green Associate
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Pavement that is less than 50% impervious and contains vegetation in the open cells
Open Grid Pavement
Development Footprint
Air Quality Standards
The average marginal cost is less than 2%. In addition. it reduces use - consumption - cost - & liability.
2. Similar to a bioswale - a depression with vegetation that filters and slows down rainwater to reduce peak discharge rates
Greenfield
LEED Prerequisites
Rapidly Renewable Materials
Raingarden
3. Used to describe situations in which building occupants experience acute health and comfort effects that appear to be linked to time spent in a building - but no specific illness or cause can be identified
Sick Building Syndrome
Construction Administration
Commingled Recycling
Aquifer
4. Begins the process of spatial refinement & usually involves the 1st design of a project's energy system.
Ambient Temperature
Design Development
Global Warming
Light Pollution
5. Green Bldg can reduce how much CO2 Emissions?
Non-renewable Resource
To qualify for Minimum Program Requirements
Compliant w/ the green design criteria
33%-39%
6. The relationship between the total building floor area and the allowable land area the building can cover (USGBC)
Floor Area Ratio
Post-Consumer Recycled Content
Previously Developed Site
Graywater (Greywater)
7. Temperature of the surrounding air or other medium (EPA)
Carbon Overlay Tool
Wet Pond (retention pond)
Negative Feedback Loop
Ambient Temperature
8. Third party certification program and the nationally accepted benchmark for the design - construction and operation of high performance green buildings (USGBC)
LEED
Airborne Pollutant
Adaptive Reuse
Submeter
9. Waste water from toilets & urinals is known as?
Perviousness
Blackwater (Treatment and definitions vary)
Ventilation Rate
Biomass
10. Flush-Out
Energy Management System
Charrette (shuh-ret)
The operation of mechanical systems for a minimum of 2 wks using 100% outdoor air at the end of construction & prior to bldg occupancy to ensure safe indoor air quality.
Green Building
11. Long term maintenance of ecosystem components and functions for future generations (EPA)
Construction Waste Management Plan
Adaptive Plant
Perviousness
Environmental Sustainability
12. The online software used to manage the entire LEED project certification process and manage credits
Green Washing
Off-Gassing (outgassing)
Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan
LEED Online
13. Measuring the amount of resources used over a period of time - such as water or electricity
LEED Project Boundary
24%-50%
40%
Metering
14. The number of different types of space per acre in an area - think of a mixed-use development - which has both houses and offices
LEED
Diversity of Uses
Negative Feedback Loop
Contaminant
15. Thermal comfort is typically attributed to what env factors?
ASHRAE (ash-ray)
Hard Cost
Bypass otherwise required submittals
Humidity - Air speed - and Tempt
16. American society of heating - refrigerating and air conditioning engineers. international technical society for all individuals and organizations interested in heating - ventilation - air-conditioning and refrigeration (hvac & r)
Credit Interpretation Request
Imperviousness
Non-Potable Water
ASHRAE (ash-ray)
17. Plan that identifies a diversion rate goal and covers how waste will be either disposed or reused or recycled by addressing sorting - collection - and final disposal of items in an existing building
Solid Waste Management Policy
Community Connectivity
Regional Material
Portable water uses
18. The percentage of water volume beneficially used by plants to the volume of water delivered through an irrigation system. water wasted would evaporate - fall on hardscapes - or runoff. drip irrigation is the most efficient with a 90% irrigation effic
70%
Irrigation Efficiency
Energy Consumption / # of sq ft. Usually in Btus or kWh/sf/yr.
Floor-To-Area
19. The variation in life forms within a given ecosystem or for the entire earth. this is often used as a measure of the health of biological systems.
Reuse
Commingled Recycling
Biodiversity
Integrated Process Team
20. Waste materials diverted from traditional disposal such as landfills or incineration to be recycled - composted - or re-used. (EPA) measured in tons
Waste Diversion
Carbon Footprint
Waterless Urinal
Energy Conservation
21. Human thermal comfort is defined by ASHRAE as the state of mind that expresses satisfaction with the surrounding environment (ASHRAE Standard 55). maintaining thermal comfort for occupants of buildings or other enclosures is one of the important goal
Cradle to Grave
Feedback Loop
Ventilation Rate
Thermal Comfort
22. Provide a consistent source of sound technical advice with respect to products - tools and services. TAGs act in an advisory capacity in responding to credit interpretation requests (CIRs) - credit rulings and credit ruling appeals while maintaining
Emergent Properties
Regional Material
The average marginal cost is less than 2%. In addition. it reduces use - consumption - cost - & liability.
LEED Technical Advisory Groups (TAG)
23. Water that originates from precipitation that enters the stormwater system
Greenhouse Gases
Reduce light transpass
Global Warming
Stormwater Runoff
24. 1) Cost of green bldg Each Prerequisite and Credit has 2 major components - and those are: Intents and Requirements
Life-cycle cost analysis
Reg a project w/ GBCI - pay applicable review fees - & submit doc.
Building Commissioning
Green Power
25. Side effect or consequence of an industrial or commercial activity that affects other parties without this being reflected in the price of the goods or services involved - i.e. the pollution created in power generation for one state blown over anothe
Blackwater (Treatment and definitions vary)
Embodied Energy
Submeter
Externality
26. Documentation of the results of the commissioning process - including the as-built state of the HVAC system and any unresolved issues found at the time the commissioning process was completed
Humidity - Air speed - and Tempt
Water Balance
Predesign
Commissioning Report
27. Renewable energy such as solar - wind - biomass - hydro - and geothermal energy
None.
Air Quality Standards
Green Power
Energy Conservation
28. Heating - ventilating and air conditioning. these systems seek to provide thermal comfort and acceptable indoor air quality
Biodegradable
Review credit intent & self-evaluate - Review past CIR - and Consult LEED reference guide
HVAC System
MERV or Minimum Efficiency Reporting Value
29. Compounds that have a high vapor pressure and low water solubility and therefore can enter the air easily. many VOCs are human-made chemicals that are used and produced in the manufacture of paints - pharmaceuticals - and refrigerants
Volatile Organic Compound
Environmentally Preferable Products
Space heating (38%). Lighting (20%)
Air Conditioning
30. A review of consumables waste of a project. essentially - finding out what makes up the projects waste can help determine ways to increase recycling or reduce waste through other methods
250 square ft
Previously Developed Site
Waste Stream Audit
Certificate of occupancy
31. An increase in the near surface temp of the earth. this has occurred in the distant past as the result of natural influences - but the term is most often used to refer to the warming predicted to occur as a result of increased emissions of greenhouse
Soft Cost
Humidity - Air speed - and Tempt
70%
Global Warming
32. 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
Vehicle miles traveled
Baseline Building Performance
Indoor Air Quality Building Education and Assessment Model (I-BEAM)
Pollution
33. Flat or nearby flat land adjacent to a stream or river that experiences occasional or periodic flooding
Floodplain
Ecosystem
Carbon Footprint
Environmental Sustainability
34. Area of the building as defined by the perimeter of the structure. parking lots - walkways - and landscaping are not included
LEED Project Boundary
Location
The % of occupants who have direct control over tempt - airflow - & lighting in their spaces.
Building Footprint
35. All members of the project team working towards the integrated process - including building owners - maintenance staff - planners - designers - etc.
Natural (or passive) Ventilation
Process Water
Integrated Process Team
Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs)
36. Drinking water that is of sufficiently high quality so that it can be consumed or utilized without risk of immediate of long term harm
Fenestration
Potable Water
Portable water uses
Graywater (Greywater)
37. Used to store excess stormwater. these are basins whose outlets have been designed to detain stormwater runoff for some minimum time (e.g. 24 hrs). the stormwater will slowly seep into the ground to recharge aquifers or discharge as determined by the
GBCI committees that addresses noncompliance in LEED credential
Hardscape
Extra categories for LEED for Neighborhood Development
Dry Pond (detention ponds)
38. Part of the LEED rating system. within each LEED category there are prerequisites and credits. prerequisites must be met for building certification.
LEED Prerequisites
LEED Online
24%-50%
None.
39. Properties or patterns that a complex system has - but which the individual members do not have. the end result is that the system now has more than just the sum of its parts. for example - saltiness is a property that neither sodium or chlorine have
Development Density
Smart Growth
Photovoltaic Energy (PV)
Emergent Properties
40. What metric is the best indicator of transportation impacts associated with a bldg project?
Carbon Footprint
Install submeters & Select local plants
Vehicle miles traveled
Environmental aspect & potential impacts
41. A systematic process of assuring that a building and its systems performs in accordance with the design intent and the owner's requirements
On-Site Wastewater Treatment
Commissioning
Compact Fluorescent Lamp (CFL)
Per-Consumer Content
42. Air and surface temperature differences between developed and underdeveloped areas
Environmentally Preferable Products
1000 square ft
LEED Rating System
Heat Islands
43. Method of land use regulation used by local governments in most developed countries. zoning may be use-based (regulating the uses to which land may be put) - or it may regulate building height - lot coverage - and similar characteristics - or some co
Energy Star Portfolio Manager
Commissioning
Zoning
250 square ft
44. Material that is sourced and manufactured within 500 miles of the project. usually expressed as a percentage of total project material
Street Grid Density
Erosion
Regional Material
Market Transformation
45. Gives preference to the purchase of environmentally preferable products and the companies that supply them
70%
Airborne Pollutant
Sustainable Purchasing Policy
Brownfields
46. Info of a result of a system returning to the system so that the system can make appropriate modifications. think of a thermostat reading the indoor air temp. info must flow to make [this]. without info - changes are less likely to happen
Feedback Loop
Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs)
Innovation in Design & Regional Priority has 100 with 10 bonus points. Leed for home has 125.
Waste Stream Audit
47. Rainwater that has been collected for uses such as landscaping irrigation - toilet flushing - or other non-potable water uses
Harvested Rainwater
Floor Area Ratio
Prime Farmland
Mostly environmental impacts & human benefits
48. Unit of measurement by which flow rate of toilets and other flushing devices such as urinals are measured and regulated
Credit Interpretation Request
Renewable Energy
Potable Water
Gallons per Flush
49. Light that passes beyond the project boundary - i.e. parking lot lighting that passes into a park next to the project
Chiller
Light Trespass
Acidification
70%
50. Part of the LEED rating system - which specifies the environmental goal of each LEED credit
LEED Intent
Floodplain
Positive Feedback Loop
LEED Credit Interpretation Ruling (CIR)