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LEED GA: Green Associate
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A contractual benchmark that usually corresponds to the point at which a client could occupy a nearly completed space.
Sulfur dioxide & Nitrogen oxide
Substantial completion
Heat Island Effect
LEED Project Boundary
2. Any substance introduced into the environment that adversely affects the usefulness of a resource or the health of humans - animals - or ecosystems (EPA)
Pollutant
Systems Thinking
Global Warming
Green Cleaning
3. How prerequisites and credits are grouped depending on the building type and rating system
Project owner - Architect - Engineers - Commissioning authority - General Contractor - Facilities staff - Building users.
LEED Category
Cradle to Grave
70%
4. 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
Hard Cost
Post-Consumer Recycled Content
Nested System
5. An interactive energy management tool for tracking and assessing energy and water consumption across an entire portfolio of buildings
Commissioning Plan
Energy Star Portfolio Manager
Indoor Air Quality Building Education and Assessment Model (I-BEAM)
Compact Fluorescent Lamp (CFL)
6. According to the EPA - what % of time do American spend indoors?
Street Grid Density
Ozone (O3)
High Performance Green Building
90%
7. The linear view of the life of a product - from creation to the end of useful life - ie disposal
Gallons per Flush & Gallons per Minute
HCFC
Cradle to Grave
Design Development
8. 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
Emissivity (of a material)
Building Commissioning
Pedestrian Access
Per-Consumer Content
9. The careful utilization of a natural resource in order to prevent depletion
Conservation
Daylighting
Brownfields
Renewable Energy
10. Material that is sourced and manufactured within 500 miles of the project. usually expressed as a percentage of total project material
Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
Sustainable Forestry
Hybrid Vehicle
Regional Material
11. In LEED credit weightings - the less important impact category
Retrocommissioning
Indoor Environmental Quality Management Plan
Mostly environmental impacts & human benefits
Acidification
12. Gathering information - recognizing stakeholder needs - establishing project goals - & selecting site
Schematic Design
Predesign
Rapidly Renewable Materials
Adaptive Reuse
13. When large amounts of outdoor air are forced through a recently completed building for a period of time so that the majority of pollutant emissions from building materials - finishes and furnishings can be removed from the building before occupancy.
Flush-Out
Development Density
% of total land are that does not allow moisture penetration
Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan
14. 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
Major Construction Phases
LEED Technical Advisory Groups (TAG)
Renewable Energy
15. Any behavior that results in the use of less energy. examples: turning the lights off when you leave a room - and recycling aluminum cans are both ways to do this
Integrative
Certificate of occupancy
Energy Conservation
Cooling Tower
16. 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
Byproduct
Material Reuse
Brownfields
Triple Bottom Line
17. Colorless - odorless gas that is present in the atmosphere and is formed when any fuel containing carbon is burned. it is breathed out of animal's lungs during respiration - is produced by the decay of organic matter - and is used by plants in photos
Irrigation Efficiency
Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
Substantial completion
Ozone (O3)
18. Meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs (EPA)
Schematic Design
LEED Project Boundary
Sustainable
Reduce light transpass
19. Landscaping and gardening in ways that reduce or eliminate the need for supplemental irrigation. it is promoted in areas that do not have easily accessible supplies of fresh water and is catching on in other areas as climate patterns shift
Agrifiber Product
Energy Star Rating
Adaptive Plant
Xeriscaping
20. When 2+ people share a ride in the same vehicle
Post-Consumer Recycled Content
Carpool
Salvaged Materials
Green Cleaning
21. Being able to allow water or air to filtrate through
Perviousness
Closed System
Review credit intent & self-evaluate - Review past CIR - and Consult LEED reference guide
Flush-Out
22. What level of CO2 concentrations indicates inadequate ventilation?
Chiller
Above 530ppm (parts per million).
Construction Waste Management Plan
Space heating (38%). Lighting (20%)
23. A project must: Comply w/ Environmental Laws - Be a Complete - Permanent bldg/space - Use a reasonable Site Boundary - Comply with min' Floor Area requirements - Comply with min' Occup' Rates - Commit to Sharing whole bldg energy & water Usage Data
Potable Water
To qualify for Minimum Program Requirements
Renewable Energy
None.
24. Process for project teams to obtain technical guidance on how LEED requirements pertain to their projects
Credit Interpretation Rulings (CIRs)
90%
Fenestration
Retrocommissioning
25. Total area in square feet of all spaces in a building - including rooms - stairwells - elevators and hallways
Square Footage of a Building
40%
Baseline Building Performance
Gallons per Flush
26. Water used for building systems such as boiler feed water - cooling water for heat exchangers - chillers - etc
Air Quality Standards
HVAC System
Light Trespass
Process Water
27. Light that passes beyond the project boundary - i.e. parking lot lighting that passes into a park next to the project
Open Grid Pavement
Daylighting
Raingarden
Light Trespass
28. 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
Renewable Energy
LEED Rating System
Baseline Building Performance
High Performance Green Building
29. 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
Schematic Design
Graywater (Greywater)
Integrated Process
Biomass
30. The min' floor area for NC - CS - Schools - EB - and O&M
Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS)
Baseline v. Actual Use
Commissioning
1000 square ft
31. Air and surface temperature differences between developed and underdeveloped areas
Previously Developed Site
24%-50%
Heat Islands
Low Impact Development
32. Any of various halocarbon compounds consisting of carbon - hydrogen - chlorine - and fluorine - once used widely as aerosol propellants and refrigerants. these are believed to cause depletion of the atmospheric ozone layer
Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)
Adaptive Plant
Building Density
Open System
33. Purchase price of a hard asset such as masonry - wood - steel - carpet - tile - mechanical systems - roofing
Sulfur dioxide & Nitrogen oxide
Hard Cost
United States Green Building Council (USGBC)
Waste Diversion
34. Each LEED credit has requirements that must be met and documentation that must be submitted to prove the credit requirements were met
Biomass
LEED Requirements and Submittals
Xeriscaping
Waste Management Plan
35. 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
Energy Conservation
Thermal Comfort
Ambient Temperature
Contaminant
36. Areas where the upper soil is no longer exposed - including paved areas - walkways - fountains - etc.
Soft Cost
LEED NC&MR
Hardscape
Integrative
37. Heat removal devices used to transfer process waste heat to the atmosphere. large office buildings - hospitals - and schools typically use one or more of these as part of their air conditioning systems
Cooling Tower
Montreal Protocol
ASHRAE (ash-ray)
None.
38. Part of construction waste management plan
Waste Management Plan
Location
Mass Transit
Transportation Demand Management
39. 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
Volatile Organic Compound
Emergent Properties
Waste Stream Audit
To prioritize the relative impact of credits on GHG emissions
40. A member based nonprofit organization whose mission is to transform the way buildings and communities are designed - built - and operated - enabling an environmentally and socially responsible - healthy and prosperous environment that improves the qu
The % of occupants who have direct control over tempt - airflow - & lighting in their spaces.
United States Green Building Council (USGBC)
Review credit intent & self-evaluate - Review past CIR - and Consult LEED reference guide
Sulfur dioxide & Nitrogen oxide
41. A term used in the US to describe the heating or cooling capacity of a system or fuels. this is understood to represent [this]'s per hour when referring to power. this derives its measurement from the amount of energy it takes to raise the temperatur
Mostly environmental impacts & human benefits
Compact Fluorescent Lamp (CFL)
British Thermal Unit (BTU)
Hard Cost
42. Disciplinary Review Committee (Investigate) - Disciplinary Hearing Committee (Judgment) - and Credential Steering Committee (Final Decision) 2) Types of advantages discovered when initial investment are made in more durable products and efficient bld
Environmentally Preferable Products
GBCI committees that addresses noncompliance in LEED credential
Greenfield
Regional Material
43. What are the added costs of bldg green & what benefits offset those cost?
Embodied Energy
Building Codes
Transportation - Site selection - Site design & management - & Stormwater management
The average marginal cost is less than 2%. In addition. it reduces use - consumption - cost - & liability.
44. A material's ability to reflect sunlight measured on a scale of 0 (black) to 1 (white). a value of 0.0 indicates that the surface absorbs all solar radiation and a value of 1.0 represents total reflectivity.
Albedo
Climate Change
Portable water uses
Conventional Irrigation
45. Energy Use Intensity in term of unit
Baseline v. Actual Use
Invasive Plants
Energy Consumption / # of sq ft. Usually in Btus or kWh/sf/yr.
Aquifer
46. Allowing pedestrians to walk between areas without interference from walls - highways or other barriers
Pedestrian Access
Commissioning Plan
Albedo
Indoor Environmental Quality Management Plan
47. Under building - tuck-under - or a stacked parking structure that minimizes the need for exposed parking and parking lots
Review credit intent & self-evaluate - Review past CIR - and Consult LEED reference guide
To qualify for Minimum Program Requirements
Externality
Underground Parking
48. The relationship between the total building floor area and the allowable land area the building can cover (USGBC)
Floor Area Ratio
Gallons per Flush
Custodial Effectiveness Assessments
Construction Administration
49. What is the procedure required to achieve LEED cert?
Biofuel
Reg a project w/ GBCI - pay applicable review fees - & submit doc.
Light Trespass
Wastewater
50. Part of the LEED rating system. projects earn points by meeting the requirements of optional credits in order to earn points towards certification
LEED Requirements and Submittals
Green Building
LEED Credit
Energy Efficient