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LEED GA: Green Associate
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1. Encourages and accelerates global adoption of sustainable green building and development practices through the creation and implementation of universally understood and accepted tools and performance criteria (USGBC). there are multiple rating system
Environmentally Preferable Products
Triple Bottom Line
Off-Gassing (outgassing)
LEED Rating System
2. A systematic process of assuring that a building and its systems performs in accordance with the design intent and the owner's requirements
Commissioning
Heat Island Effect
Street Grid Density
Potable Water
3. A review process that identifies and selects the lowest lifecycle cost options in design - materials and processes that achieves the desired level of performance - reliability and customer satisfaction
Space heating (38%). Lighting (20%)
Flush-Out
Value Engineering
Installing submeters & using ENERGY STAR certified cloths washers
4. Indicates a material's ability to reject solar heat and is the combined value of reflectivity and emittance. measurements vary from 100 (standard white surface - most reflective) - to 0 (standard black surface - least reflective). materials with the
Reduce light transpass
Sustainable
Brownfields
Solar Reflectance Index (SRI)
5. The amount of water the design case conserves vs the baseline case
Gallons per Minute
Site Disturbance
Waste Diversion
Baseline Vs Design
6. Heating - ventilating and air conditioning. these systems seek to provide thermal comfort and acceptable indoor air quality
Rating system and Project size
To qualify for Minimum Program Requirements
HVAC System
Design
7. The area of the project site that has been disturbed for development. this area includes the building footprint - hardscapes - and parking lots
Climate Change
Externality
Renewable Energy
Development Footprint
8. Hydrochlorofluorocarbons that are used in refrigerants and propellants that are known to deplete the ozone layer
HCFC
Location & Linkages. Awareness & Education
Bioswale
Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan
9. 4 key issues that help define how location affect project
Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs)
Metering
Biodiversity
Transportation - Site selection - Site design & management - & Stormwater management
10. A hydrocarbon deposit - such as petroleum - coal or natural gas - derived from the accumulated remains of ancient plants and animals and used as fuel. carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases generated by burning these are considered to be one of th
Climate Change
Global Warming
Fossil Fuels
Baseline Building Performance
11. A measure of the amount of illumination falling on a surface.
Process Water
Foot Candle - A ftcandle is equal to 1-lumen/sq-ft
Transportation Demand Management
Emergent Properties
12. A renewable energy source - refers to plant matter grown to generate electricity or produce biofuel. it excludes organic material which has been transformed by geological processes into substances such as coal or petroleum
Biomass
Diversity of Uses
Triple Bottom Line
Heat Islands
13. A term used in life cycle analysis to describe a material or product that is recycled into a new product at the end of its useful life. an example of a closed system
Cradle to Cradle
Indoor Air Quality
Reduce light transpass
Off-Gassing (outgassing)
14. A continuous process of collecting and analyzing data to compare how well a project is working against expected results of the project based on performance indicators. the goal is use the indicators to achieve efficiency where possible
Ventilation Rate
Construction Administration
Integrative
Performance Monitoring
15. Vehicle which has both a gas powered engine and an electric engine to achieve better fuel economy and lower emissions
Hybrid Vehicle
Site Disturbance
Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)
Integrative
16. Air that enters into a building either naturally through pre-designed openings in the building or through the ventilation system
Outdoor Air
Integrated Process
Stormwater Runoff
Environmental Sustainability
17. Part of the LEED rating system - which specifies the environmental goal of each LEED credit
LEED Online
High Performance Green Building
LEED Intent
Open Space
18. 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
Regenerative
Environmental Sustainability
Off-Gassing (outgassing)
Construction Waste Management Plan
19. Material that is sourced and manufactured within 500 miles of the project. usually expressed as a percentage of total project material
Feedback Loop
Adaptive Reuse
Albedo
Regional Material
20. The careful utilization of a natural resource in order to prevent depletion
Integrated Design
Conservation
Pollutant
Alternative Fuel Vehicle
21. The stewardship and use of forests and forest lands in a way - and at a rate - that maintains their biodiversity - productivity - regeneration capacity - vitality and their potential to fulfill - now and in the future - relevant ecological - economic
Waste Diversion
Sustainable Forestry
Reduce light transpass
HVAC System
22. What's the earliest pt at which a LEED for Schools proejct can be cert?
Brownfields
After bldg completion & once all submittals & clarifications are reviewed.
Install submeters & Select local plants
Charrette (shuh-ret)
23. What is reduced when a project uses reclaimed water in its cooling towers?
LEED Credit Checklist
24%-50%
Heat Island Effect
Portable water uses
24. Precipitation that is usually acidic. it has harmful effects on plants - aquatic animals - and infrastructure. it is mostly caused by human emissions of sulfur and nitrogen compounds which react in the atmosphere to produce acids. in recent years - m
Feedback Loop
250 square ft
Acid Rain
Graywater (Greywater)
25. The carbon overlay in LEED is used for what?
Alternative Fuel Vehicle
Humidity - Air speed - and Tempt
Charrette (shuh-ret)
To prioritize the relative impact of credits on GHG emissions
26. 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
General requirement for LEED certification documentation
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
Integrated Process
Open System
27. What are the added costs of bldg green & what benefits offset those cost?
Harvested Rainwater
Underground Parking
Construction Phases Bidding
The average marginal cost is less than 2%. In addition. it reduces use - consumption - cost - & liability.
28. All the energy used to grow - extract and manufacture a product - transport it to the jobsite - complete the installation - and finally dispose of it at the end of its life cycle
Embodied Energy
Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
High Performance Green Building
Wastewater
29. 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
Refrigerant
Passive Design
ASHRAE (ash-ray)
Infill Development
30. The portion of the project site submitted for LEED certification. for multiple building developments - the LEED project boundary may be a portion of the development as determined by the project team
Value Engineering
LEED Online
LEED Project Boundary
Net-Zero Energy
31. The number of different types of space per acre in an area - think of a mixed-use development - which has both houses and offices
Diversity of Uses
Solid Waste Management Policy
Bypass otherwise required submittals
Indoor Environmental Quality Management Plan
32. Any opening in a building - such as windows - doors - skylights - curtain walls - etc. - designed to permit the passage of air - light - vehicles - or people
Fenestration
Non-renewable Resource
Ozone (O3)
Conventional Irrigation
33. Doing this in the air for the purposes of assessing indoor air quality
Life-cycle cost analysis
CO2 Concentrations/Monitoring
Install submeters & Select local plants
LEED
34. The area of the project site that is impacted by construction activity - LEED project should attempt to limit site disturbance
Site Disturbance
Climate Change
Project owner - Architect - Engineers - Commissioning authority - General Contractor - Facilities staff - Building users.
Ventilation Rate
35. Water used for building systems such as boiler feed water - cooling water for heat exchangers - chillers - etc
Process Water
The % of occupants who have direct control over tempt - airflow - & lighting in their spaces.
Light Pollution
Hybrid Vehicle
36. Areas where the upper soil is no longer exposed - including paved areas - walkways - fountains - etc.
LEED Credit Interpretation Ruling (CIR)
Wet Pond (retention pond)
Hardscape
Greenfield
37. A process used to remove VOCs from a bldg by elevating the tempt in the fully furnished & ventilated bldg prior to human occupancy.
Bake-Out
Built Environment
70%
Conservation
38. Meters placed on smaller portions of a larger system - i.e. submeteres monitoring water use on each floor of a project
Open Space
Integrative
Submeter
Retrocommissioning
39. 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 Air Quality Building Education and Assessment Model (I-BEAM)
70%
Energy Consumption / # of sq ft. Usually in Btus or kWh/sf/yr.
Built Environment
40. CD carry the design into the detail level so that construction can take place.
Green Washing
Air Quality Standards
Construction Documents
Retrocommissioning
41. 1) Cost of green bldg Each Prerequisite and Credit has 2 major components - and those are: Intents and Requirements
% of water delivered by irrigation equipment that is actually used for irrigation & not evaporate/blowaway/fall on hardscape
Life-cycle cost analysis
HVAC System
Foot Candle - A ftcandle is equal to 1-lumen/sq-ft
42. 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
The four LEED levels
Negative Feedback Loop
Feedback Loop
Thermal Comfort
43. Under building - tuck-under - or a stacked parking structure that minimizes the need for exposed parking and parking lots
The average marginal cost is less than 2%. In addition. it reduces use - consumption - cost - & liability.
Dry Pond (detention ponds)
Acid Rain
Underground Parking
44. Different term from adaptive reuse because materials are reused in a way that is the same of similar to how it was used before - i.e. saving doors in an old project to be used as doors in the new project. in LEED - this material is calculated as a pe
MERV or Minimum Efficiency Reporting Value
Environmental aspect & potential impacts
Material Reuse
Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
45. The practice of placing windows - or other transparent media - and reflective surfaces so that - during the day - natural light provides effective internal illumination
Daylighting
Harvested Rainwater
Imperviousness
Regenerative
46. A survey of building occupants that asks questions about the green cleaning program and helps determine if occupants are exposed to pollutants
Floor-To-Area
Open System
Custodial Effectiveness Assessments
Externality
47. Products made from agricultural fiber such as wheat board and straw board
Biodegradable
Agrifiber Product
40%
Predesign
48. 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
Credit Interpretation Request
Flush-Out
Submeter
Waste Stream Audit
49. Waste materials diverted from traditional disposal such as landfills or incineration to be recycled - composted - or re-used. (EPA) measured in tons
Integrated Pest Management
Waste Diversion
Acidification
Compact Fluorescent Lamp (CFL)
50. Very harsh - bright - dazzling light that interferes with visibility
To qualify for Minimum Program Requirements
70%
Glare
Ventilation Rate