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LEED GA: Green Associate
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1. What are the extra categories for LEED for Home?
Regenerative
Life-cycle cost analysis
Location & Linkages. Awareness & Education
Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS)
2. Doing this in the air for the purposes of assessing indoor air quality
Waterless Urinal
Credit Interpretation Request
CO2 Concentrations/Monitoring
Mostly environmental impacts & human benefits
3. A roof of a building that is partially or completely covered with vegetation and soil - or a growing medium - planted over a waterproofing membrane
Open System
Project owner - Architect - Engineers - Commissioning authority - General Contractor - Facilities staff - Building users.
Vegetated (Green) Roof
Soft Cost
4. Building that is energy and resource efficient
Evapotranspiration
LEED Pilot Credit Library
High Performance Green Building
Energy Star Rating
5. Part of a refrigeration system - a machine that removes heat from liquid via a vapor-compression or absorption refrigeration cycle
LEED Credit Interpretation Ruling (CIR)
Environmental Sustainability
Sulfur dioxide & Nitrogen oxide
Chiller
6. An interactive energy management tool for tracking and assessing energy and water consumption across an entire portfolio of buildings
Commissioning
Sick Building Syndrome
Air Quality Standards
Energy Star Portfolio Manager
7. The official recognition by a local bldg department that bldg conforms to applicable bldg & safety codes.
Square Footage of a Building
Adaptive Reuse
Certificate of occupancy
Potable Water
8. The process of collecting (commonly from a roof) - storing and using rainwater
Review credit intent & self-evaluate - Review past CIR - and Consult LEED reference guide
Rainwater Harvesting
Fenestration
70%
9. 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
Conventional Irrigation
Refrigerant
Soft Cost
Greenhouse Gases
10. 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
Green Power
Byproduct
Aquifer
Positive Feedback Loop
11. Using local systems to treat waste generated on-site and avoid adding waste to public facilities
To prioritize the relative impact of credits on GHG emissions
Regional Material
Irrigation Efficiency
On-Site Wastewater Treatment
12. 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
HCFC
LEED Technical Advisory Groups (TAG)
Off-Gassing (outgassing)
Imperviousness
13. Explores design options & alternatives with the intent to establish an agreed-upon project layout & scope of work.
Negative Feedback Loop
Commingled Recycling
Solar Reflectance Index (SRI)
Schematic Design
14. Allowing pedestrians to walk between areas without interference from walls - highways or other barriers
Construction Waste Management Plan
Ventilation Rate
Pedestrian Access
Bake-Out
15. The spent or used water from a home - community - farm - or industry that contains dissolved or suspended matter (EPA)
Green Building
LEED Requirements and Submittals
Fenestration
Wastewater
16. Green Bldg can reduce how much Water Use?
40%
Climate Change
Fenestration
Life-cycle cost analysis
17. When 2+ people share a ride in the same vehicle
Carpool
Foot Candle - A ftcandle is equal to 1-lumen/sq-ft
Bioswale
Charrette (shuh-ret)
18. How prerequisites and credits are grouped depending on the building type and rating system
Integrated Process
LEED Category
Impervious Surfaces
Graywater (Greywater)
19. Which LEED rating systems has more than 100 points
Emergent Properties
LEED Technical Advisory Groups (TAG)
Sustainable Forestry
Innovation in Design & Regional Priority has 100 with 10 bonus points. Leed for home has 125.
20. Total building energy costs (including all plug loads) annually. this value is intended to be used to compare against design cases to compute energy savings from a proposed design
Submeter
Baseline Building Performance
Square Footage of a Building
LEED Category
21. A process used to remove VOCs from a bldg by elevating the tempt in the fully furnished & ventilated bldg prior to human occupancy.
Retrocommissioning
Bake-Out
Energy Efficient
Invasive Plants
22. A survey of building occupants that asks questions about the green cleaning program and helps determine if occupants are exposed to pollutants
Mostly environmental impacts & human benefits
Custodial Effectiveness Assessments
Pedestrian Access
Rainwater Harvesting
23. Purchase price of a hard asset such as masonry - wood - steel - carpet - tile - mechanical systems - roofing
Hard Cost
Green Power
Sustainable Forestry
Evapotranspiration
24. 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.
Construction Waste Management Plan
Integrative
Biodiversity
Alternative Fuel Vehicle
25. Capable of being decomposed by natural agents - especially bacteria
Biodegradable
The average marginal cost is less than 2%. In addition. it reduces use - consumption - cost - & liability.
Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs)
Natural (or passive) Ventilation
26. Floor area of the building / the total area of the site = sq ft / acre
Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs)
Building Density
Raingarden
Cooling Tower
27. 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
Energy Consumption / # of sq ft. Usually in Btus or kWh/sf/yr.
Open System
Environmental aspect & potential impacts
Rating system and Project size
28. An attempt to reduce peak period transportation use - such as allowing flex time in which employees may come to work before or after rush hour
Baseline Vs Design
Transportation Demand Management
Outdoor Air
Schematic Design
29. Pavement that is less than 50% impervious and contains vegetation in the open cells
Baseline Vs Design
Green Cleaning
Commissioning
Open Grid Pavement
30. Credit weightings are based on...
Environmentally Preferable Products
Mostly environmental impacts & human benefits
ASHRAE (ash-ray)
Solar Reflectance Index (SRI)
31. The process of adapting old structures for purposes other than those initially intended. this saves on new materials needed. ex: warehouse turned into condos. also refers to the design of a new building with consideration to what it could be used for
Adaptive Reuse
CO2 Concentrations/Monitoring
Waste Management Plan
Water Balance
32. What level of CO2 concentrations indicates inadequate ventilation?
Regional Material
Hybrid Vehicle
Extra categories for LEED for Neighborhood Development
Above 530ppm (parts per million).
33. Developing in areas near transportation - housing - and jobs therefore leaving open spaces and farmland free from development
Metering
Smart Growth
Energy Conservation
Mostly environmental impacts & human benefits
34. Under building - tuck-under - or a stacked parking structure that minimizes the need for exposed parking and parking lots
LEED Points
Connections & Communication btw professionals & throughout the life of a project
Negative Feedback Loop
Underground Parking
35. Similar to cradle-to-cradle - processes that restore - renew or revitalize their own sources of energy and materials - creating sustainable systems that integrate the needs of society with the integrity of nature. i.e. a building or community that mi
Baseline Building Performance
Install submeters & Select local plants
Byproduct
Regenerative
36. Waste building materials - dredging materials - tree stumps - and rubble resulting from [first word] - remodeling - repair - and [second word] of homes - commercial buildings and other structures and pavements
Design
Integrated Pest Management
ASHRAE (ash-ray)
Construction and Demolition Debris
37. 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
British Thermal Unit (BTU)
Conventional Irrigation
Positive Feedback Loop
Vegetated (Green) Roof
38. Any opening in a building - such as windows - doors - skylights - curtain walls - etc. - designed to permit the passage of air - light - vehicles - or people
Wet Pond (retention pond)
Fenestration
Daylighting
LEED Project Boundary
39. Achieving net zero emissions by balancing the footprint with an equivalent amount of sequestered or offset green house gases
Integrated Process Team
Carbon Neutrality
Above 530ppm (parts per million).
Indoor Air Quality
40. The practice of placing windows - or other transparent media - and reflective surfaces so that - during the day - natural light provides effective internal illumination
Daylighting
Systems Thinking
Ozone (O3)
Non-renewable Resource
41. A control system capable of monitoring environmental and system loads and adjusting HVAC operations accordingly in order to conserve energy while maintaining comfort (EPA)
Building Density
LEED Online
Byproduct
Energy Management System
42. The presence in water of enough harmful or objectionable material to damage the water's quality (EPA)
Pedestrian Access
Open Grid Pavement
Water Pollution
ASHRAE (ash-ray)
43. An international treaty designed to protect the ozone layer by phasing out the production of numerous substances believed to be responsible for ozone depletion
Review credit intent & self-evaluate - Review past CIR - and Consult LEED reference guide
Air Conditioning
Montreal Protocol
Pedestrian Access
44. Like carbon dioxide or methane - which contributes to potential climate change
Integrated Process
Greenhouse Gases
Water Balance
Refrigerant
45. Flush-Out
Transportation - Site selection - Site design & management - & Stormwater management
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.
Environmentally Preferable Products
Water Balance
46. 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
Value Engineering
Bypass otherwise required submittals
Volatile Organic Compound
Adaptive Reuse
47. Advertising a product or policy to be more beneficial to the environment than is true
Value Engineering
Credit Interpretation Rulings (CIRs)
Green Washing
Pollution
48. The process of verifying - in new construction - that all the systems and subsystems are efficiently designed and installed properly to achieve the owner's project requirements and as designed by the building architects and engineers.
Integrated Process
Baseline Building Performance
Emergent Properties
Building Commissioning
49. Long term maintenance of ecosystem components and functions for future generations
Feedback Loop
Environmental Sustainability
Community Connectivity
Montreal Protocol
50. The coordinated use of pest and environmental info with available pest control methods to prevent unacceptable levels of pest damage by the most economical means and with the least possible hazard to people - property - and the environment
Smart Growth
Perviousness
Rapidly Renewable Materials
Integrated Pest Management