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LEED GA: Green Associate
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Smart Location & Linkage. Neighborhood Pattern & Design. Green Infrastructure & Bldg.
Water Balance
LEED Intent
LEED Online
Extra categories for LEED for Neighborhood Development
2. An expense item that is not considered a direct construction cost. soft costs include architectural - engineering - financing - and legal fees - commissioning - and other pre- and post-construction expenses
ASHRAE (ash-ray)
Soft Cost
Cradle to Grave
Waste Stream Audit
3. Green Bldg can reduce how much Water Use?
40%
Floodplain
Water Pollution
Rating system and Project size
4. Capable of being decomposed by natural agents - especially bacteria
Green Washing
Biodegradable
Construction Administration
Water Balance
5. Controllability of Systems
Previously Developed Site
The % of occupants who have direct control over tempt - airflow - & lighting in their spaces.
LEED NC&MR
Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
6. The ability of dark - non-reflective paved areas-city streets - rooftops - and sidewalks-to absorb and radiate heat - making urban areas and the surrounding suburbs noticeably hotter than rural towns nearby. other contributors include reduced airflow
Development Footprint
LEED Credit Checklist
Heat Island Effect
Integrated Process
7. A measure of the amount of illumination falling on a surface.
Energy Star Portfolio Manager
Biomass
Foot Candle - A ftcandle is equal to 1-lumen/sq-ft
Perviousness
8. Content from industry scraps that was diverted from the waste stream and used for other purposes. examples include sawdust - wood shavings - wood chips - and print overruns. excluded are materials that are re-incorporated into the same manufacturing
Aquifer
Per-Consumer Content
Fossil Fuels
Post-Consumer Recycled Content
9. Total area in square feet of all spaces in a building - including rooms - stairwells - elevators and hallways
Square Footage of a Building
Energy Management System
Smart Growth
Impervious Surfaces
10. 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
Flush-Out
Pollutant
Bioswale
Life-cycle cost analysis
11. Excessive or obtrusive artificial light that obscures the stars in the night sky for city dwellers - interferes with astronomical observatories - and like any other form of pollution - disrupts ecosystems and has adverse health effects
Light Pollution
Construction and Demolition Debris
Non-Potable Water
LEED Pilot Credit Library
12. A process used to remove VOCs from a bldg by elevating the tempt in the fully furnished & ventilated bldg prior to human occupancy.
Compact Fluorescent Lamp (CFL)
LEED Credit Checklist
Bake-Out
Major Construction Phases
13. Centerline miles/square mile - a centerline mile is measuring a particular road down its center. higher street grid densities are beneficial for pedestrians
Street Grid Density
Construction Phases Bidding
Indoor Air Quality
Community Connectivity
14. Part of the LEED rating system. within each LEED category there are prerequisites and credits. prerequisites must be met for building certification.
LEED Prerequisites
Externality
Substantial completion
Smart Growth
15. Exterior surface of the building including all walls - windows - floor and roof. separates the building's inside from the outside
Emissivity (of a material)
Infill Development
Contaminant
Building Envelope (building shell)
16. Waste water from toilets & urinals is known as?
Off-Gassing (outgassing)
Raingarden
LEED Credit
Blackwater (Treatment and definitions vary)
17. A mixture of sizes and cost of houses in an area that allows for a mixture of socioeconomic types of people in an area -- i.e. young families and older couples in a neighborhood
Diversity of Houses
Previously Developed Site
Nonpoint Source Pollution
Heat Island Effect
18. 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)
Glare
Closed System
Low Impact Development
Raingarden
19. When 2+ people share a ride in the same vehicle
Carpool
LEED Points
Community Connectivity
LEED NC&MR
20. The number of different types of space per acre in an area - think of a mixed-use development - which has both houses and offices
Smart Growth
Building Codes
Integrated Process Team
Diversity of Uses
21. 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
Non-renewable Resource
Sustainable
Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs)
Performance Monitoring
22. Energy Use Intensity in term of unit
Energy Star Rating
Energy Consumption / # of sq ft. Usually in Btus or kWh/sf/yr.
Predesign
Regenerative
23. Being able to allow water or air to filtrate through
Perviousness
Ventilation Rate
LEED
Community Connectivity
24. A systematic process of assuring that a building and its systems performs in accordance with the design intent and the owner's requirements
Alternative Fuel Vehicle
Commissioning
Humidity - Air speed - and Tempt
Xeriscaping
25. A roof of a building that is partially or completely covered with vegetation and soil - or a growing medium - planted over a waterproofing membrane
British Thermal Unit (BTU)
Schematic Design
United States Green Building Council (USGBC)
Vegetated (Green) Roof
26. When all recyclables for collection are mixed but kept separate from other waste
Native or Indigenous Plants
Commingled Recycling
Greenhouse Gases
Nonpoint Source Pollution
27. 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
Biofuel
Site Disturbance
Drip Irrigation
Square Footage of a Building
28. The licensed-pro exemption is used by a project team to do what?
Major Construction Phases
LEED Project Boundary
Bypass otherwise required submittals
Flush-Out
29. The careful utilization of a natural resource in order to prevent depletion
Charrette (shuh-ret)
Conservation
Externality
British Thermal Unit (BTU)
30. 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
Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs)
Biomass
Review credit intent & self-evaluate - Review past CIR - and Consult LEED reference guide
Foot Candle - A ftcandle is equal to 1-lumen/sq-ft
31. What is the procedure required to achieve LEED cert?
Photovoltaic Energy (PV)
Location & Linkages. Awareness & Education
Reg a project w/ GBCI - pay applicable review fees - & submit doc.
Light Pollution
32. The ratio of energy radiated by a particular material to energy radiated by a black body at the same temperature. measure of a material's ability to radiate absorbed energy
Commissioning
Emissivity (of a material)
Waste Stream Audit
Climate Change
33. Uses the natural forces of wind and buoyancy to deliver fresh air into buildings through doors - windows or other designed opening (chimneys)
Review credit intent & self-evaluate - Review past CIR - and Consult LEED reference guide
Building Commissioning
Indoor Environmental Quality Management Plan
Natural (or passive) Ventilation
34. Which LEED rating systems has more than 100 points
The average marginal cost is less than 2%. In addition. it reduces use - consumption - cost - & liability.
GBCI committees that addresses noncompliance in LEED credential
Innovation in Design & Regional Priority has 100 with 10 bonus points. Leed for home has 125.
Brownfields
35. Under building - tuck-under - or a stacked parking structure that minimizes the need for exposed parking and parking lots
Underground Parking
250 square ft
Reduce light transpass
Location
36. Mixture of smoke from the burning end of a cigarette - pipe - or cigar and smoke exhaled by the smoker
Process Water
Market Transformation
Compliant w/ the green design criteria
Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS)
37. Comparison between a standard gage and an actual result. in LEED - the [first part] usually refers to the EPAct 1992 water flow and flush rates while the [second part] would represent an existing building.
Humidity - Air speed - and Tempt
Baseline v. Actual Use
Green Power
Ventilation Rate
38. Life-cycle assessment is used to determine what?
Metering
Soft Cost
Green Washing
Environmental aspect & potential impacts
39. Purchase price of a hard asset such as masonry - wood - steel - carpet - tile - mechanical systems - roofing
Emissivity (of a material)
Design
Floor Area Ratio
Hard Cost
40. Document that outlines the organization - schedule - allocation of resources - and documentation requirements of the commissioning process
Carbon Neutrality
Commissioning Plan
Raingarden
Major Construction Phases
41. Renewable energy such as solar - wind - biomass - hydro - and geothermal energy
Carbon Footprint
Greenhouse Gases
LEED Online
Green Power
42. Material - other than the principle product - generated as a consequence of an industrial process or as a breakdown product in a living system (EPA)
MERV or Minimum Efficiency Reporting Value
Byproduct
LEED Technical Advisory Groups (TAG)
Adaptive Plant
43. 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
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
Net-Zero Energy
Vegetated (Green) Roof
Waste Stream Audit
44. 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
Waste Diversion
Irrigation Efficiency
5 years
Building Commissioning
45. Used by the USGBC to weight credits in the LEED system. credits that reduce the greenhouse gas emissions are given more weight than those that do not
Bypass otherwise required submittals
Carbon Overlay Tool
Smart Growth
Innovation in Design & Regional Priority has 100 with 10 bonus points. Leed for home has 125.
46. Any method of powering an engine that does not involve solely petroleum (e.g. electric car - petrol-electric hybrid - solar powered)
Diversity of Houses
Adaptive Reuse
Diversity of Uses
Alternative Fuel Vehicle
47. System where energy is taken from the output of a system and reapplied to the input - or A produces more of B which in turn produces more of A. i.e. population growth -- adults make children whom in turn make more adults
Infill Development
Positive Feedback Loop
Design
MERV or Minimum Efficiency Reporting Value
48. Heating - ventilating and air conditioning. these systems seek to provide thermal comfort and acceptable indoor air quality
Commissioning
HVAC System
United States Green Building Council (USGBC)
70%
49. Green Bldg can reduce how much Solid Waste?
70%
Construction Phases Bidding
Passive Design
Cooling Tower
50. A written plan that outlines strategies to reduce stormwater runoff for the purposes of reducing erosion - pollution and sedimentation of nearby bodies of water - especially important during construction where so much dirt - dust and waste are presen
Infill Development
Development Density
Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan
Life-cycle cost analysis