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LEED GA: Green Associate
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1. Credit weightings are based on...
Mostly environmental impacts & human benefits
Rapidly Renewable Materials
Square Footage of a Building
Adaptive Reuse
2. What is acknowledged as one of the greatest threats to surface-water quality?
Energy Use Intensity (EUI)
Water Balance
LEED Credit
Nonpoint-source pollution
3. When an exisiting building undergoes the commissioning process to discover if improvements or changes should be made to improve the building
Energy Star Portfolio Manager
Retrocommissioning
Refrigerant
Construction Phases Bidding
4. Human made surroundings that provide the setting for human activity - ranging in scale from personal shelter and buildings to neighborhoods and cities
Biofuel
The average marginal cost is less than 2%. In addition. it reduces use - consumption - cost - & liability.
Built Environment
Prime Farmland
5. Advertising a product or policy to be more beneficial to the environment than is true
Green Washing
70%
LEED Online
Design
6. Air and surface temperature differences between developed and underdeveloped areas
1000 square ft
Water Pollution
Indoor Air Quality
Heat Islands
7. Meters placed on smaller portions of a larger system - i.e. submeteres monitoring water use on each floor of a project
Submeter
Light Pollution
Non-renewable Resource
Location
8. Previously undeveloped land that is suited for agriculture
HVAC System
LEED Requirements and Submittals
Indoor Environmental Quality Management Plan
Prime Farmland
9. The licensed-pro exemption is used by a project team to do what?
Waste Stream Audit
Bypass otherwise required submittals
Global Warming
HCFC
10. 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
Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan
Drip Irrigation
HCFC
Built Environment
11. Any opening in a building - such as windows - doors - skylights - curtain walls - etc. - designed to permit the passage of air - light - vehicles - or people
Energy Consumption / # of sq ft. Usually in Btus or kWh/sf/yr.
Fenestration
Byproduct
Extra categories for LEED for Neighborhood Development
12. Wood manufactured by binding together the strands - particles - fibers - or veneers of wood - together with adhesives - to form [first word] materials
Integrated Process
To qualify for Minimum Program Requirements
Ozone (O3)
Composite Wood (engineered lumber)
13. Any substance introduced into the environment that adversely affects the usefulness of a resource or the health of humans - animals - or ecosystems (EPA)
Greenfield
Pollutant
Drip Irrigation
Ecosystem
14. 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
Salvaged Materials
Biodiversity
Indoor Air Quality Building Education and Assessment Model (I-BEAM)
Material Reuse
15. Potential credits and categories that may be used in upcoming versions of the LEED rating systems
Indoor Air Quality
LEED Pilot Credit Library
Renewable Energy
Underground Parking
16. Water that is not treated to drinking water standards and is not meant for human consumption
Construction Waste Management Plan
Major Construction Phases
Heat Island Effect
Non-Potable Water
17. 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
Energy Efficient
Vehicle miles traveled
Value Engineering
LEED
18. The introduction of contaminants into an environment that causes instability - disorder - harm or discomfort to the physical systems or living organisms
Integrated Process Team
British Thermal Unit (BTU)
Design
Pollution
19. The rate at which indoor air enters and leaves a building - usually expressed in LEED as the number of changes of outdoor air per hour (air changes per hour or "ach") ASHRAE 62 prescribes proper ventilation rates to ensure pollutants and carbon dioxi
Sustainable
Ventilation Rate
Construction and Demolition Debris
Installing submeters & using ENERGY STAR certified cloths washers
20. LEED certification fee is base on two factors.
Cooling Tower
The average marginal cost is less than 2%. In addition. it reduces use - consumption - cost - & liability.
Rating system and Project size
Non-Potable Water
21. Total area in square feet of all spaces in a building - including rooms - stairwells - elevators and hallways
Emissivity (of a material)
Square Footage of a Building
Reg a project w/ GBCI - pay applicable review fees - & submit doc.
Transportation - Site selection - Site design & management - & Stormwater management
22. Gathering information - recognizing stakeholder needs - establishing project goals - & selecting site
Predesign
Regenerative
Construction Documents
Extra categories for LEED for Neighborhood Development
23. The min' floor area for NC - CS - Schools - EB - and O&M
Commissioning
Development Density
1000 square ft
Rainwater Harvesting
24. Major Players in Design & Construction Process are...
Ventilation Rate
Project owner - Architect - Engineers - Commissioning authority - General Contractor - Facilities staff - Building users.
Green Washing
Closed System
25. Viewing the world as an interrelated set of systems that can influence one another
Systems Thinking
Ozone (O3)
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.
Extra categories for LEED for Neighborhood Development
26. A survey of building occupants that asks questions about the green cleaning program and helps determine if occupants are exposed to pollutants
Biomass
Rating system and Project size
Energy Use Intensity (EUI)
Custodial Effectiveness Assessments
27. A collection of living things and the environment in which they live. for example - a prairie [this] includes coyotes - the rabbits on which they feed - and the grasses that feed the rabbits
LEED Online
Ecosystem
Commingled Recycling
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
28. Have a lesser or reduced effect on human health and the environment when compared with competing products or services that serve the same purpose. this comparison may consider raw materials acquisition - production - manufacturing - packaging - distr
United States Green Building Council (USGBC)
Environmentally Preferable Products
Environmental Sustainability
GBCI committees that addresses noncompliance in LEED credential
29. How prerequisites and credits are grouped depending on the building type and rating system
LEED Category
Chiller
Cradle to Grave
Air Conditioning
30. An unwanted airborne constituent that may reduce acceptability of the air (ASHRAE 62.1-2004)
Contaminant
On-Site Wastewater Treatment
Hybrid Vehicle
Innovation in Design & Regional Priority has 100 with 10 bonus points. Leed for home has 125.
31. Total square footage of buildings in a particular area divided by acre amount of the same area - expressed as SF/Acre - for example 20 -000 SF per acre
Compliant w/ the green design criteria
ASHRAE (ash-ray)
Development Density
Open System
32. Under building - tuck-under - or a stacked parking structure that minimizes the need for exposed parking and parking lots
Underground Parking
Installing submeters & using ENERGY STAR certified cloths washers
Net-Zero Energy
Salvaged Materials
33. The presence in water of enough harmful or objectionable material to damage the water's quality (EPA)
LEED Online
Native or Indigenous Plants
Performance Monitoring
Water Pollution
34. The carbon overlay in LEED is used for what?
Development Density
Regional Material
Dry Pond (detention ponds)
To prioritize the relative impact of credits on GHG emissions
35. 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
Install submeters & Select local plants
Solid Waste Management Policy
Commissioning Report
Location
36. non-native plants that use less fertilizer - pesticides and water in a given landscape. these plants have adapted to the local climate and are not considered invasive plants or weeds.
Building Density
Space heating (38%). Lighting (20%)
Adaptive Plant
LEED Credit Checklist
37. Green bldg emphasizes using what type of design process?
Integrative
Ozone (O3)
Mostly environmental impacts & human benefits
Wet Pond (retention pond)
38. 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
Commissioning Report
Embodied Energy
Composite Wood (engineered lumber)
Natural (or passive) Ventilation
39. An interactive energy management tool for tracking and assessing energy and water consumption across an entire portfolio of buildings
Pedestrian Access
Installing submeters & using ENERGY STAR certified cloths washers
HCFC
Energy Star Portfolio Manager
40. Unit of measurement that describes a building's energy use relative to its size. it's calculated by taking the total energy consumed in one year in kBTUs and dividing it by total floorspace of the building. a low number signifies good energy performa
250 square ft
% of total land are that does not allow moisture penetration
Energy Use Intensity (EUI)
Credit Interpretation Rulings (CIRs)
41. Drinking water that is of sufficiently high quality so that it can be consumed or utilized without risk of immediate of long term harm
Potable Water
Custodial Effectiveness Assessments
Rainwater Harvesting
% of total land are that does not allow moisture penetration
42. Any method of powering an engine that does not involve solely petroleum (e.g. electric car - petrol-electric hybrid - solar powered)
Photovoltaic Energy (PV)
Location & Linkages. Awareness & Education
Alternative Fuel Vehicle
Sustainable Purchasing Policy
43. What's the earliest pt at which a LEED for Schools proejct can be cert?
Graywater (Greywater)
Fenestration
After bldg completion & once all submittals & clarifications are reviewed.
Environmental Sustainability
44. A LEED rating is achieved through earning points in each of the 6 LEED categories
Hard Cost
Greenhouse Gases
Reuse
LEED Points
45. Plan that covers how waste will be either disposed or reused or recycled by addressing sorting - collection - and final disposal of items used in the construction or renovation process
HVAC System
Construction Waste Management Plan
Embodied Energy
% of water delivered by irrigation equipment that is actually used for irrigation & not evaporate/blowaway/fall on hardscape
46. 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
Externality
Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
Value Engineering
Waste Stream Audit
47. An underground layer of water-bearing permeable rock or unconsolidated materials (gravel - sand - silt or clay) from which groundwater can be usefully extracted using a water well. these are critically important in human habitation and agriculture. t
Heat Island Effect
Hybrid Vehicle
Metering
Aquifer
48. 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
Environmental Sustainability
Positive Feedback Loop
Erosion
Bypass otherwise required submittals
49. Any substance in air that could - in high enough concentration - harm man - other animals - vegetation - or material (EPA)
Ambient Temperature
Airborne Pollutant
Composite Wood (engineered lumber)
Graywater (Greywater)
50. Unit of measurement by which flowing devices such as faucets and showers are measured and regulated
Natural (or passive) Ventilation
Gallons per Minute
Conservation
Rapidly Renewable Materials
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