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LEED GA: Green Associate
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1. Credit weightings are based on...
Ecosystem
Mostly environmental impacts & human benefits
Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS)
Site Disturbance
2. Part of the LEED rating system. projects earn points by meeting the requirements of optional credits in order to earn points towards certification
Acidification
Stormwater Runoff
Outdoor Air
LEED Credit
3. Plan that takes into consideration all aspects of the indoor environment and documents strategies to protect the quality of the indoor environment for occupants - especially important during construction and renovations
Compact Fluorescent Lamp (CFL)
Airborne Pollutant
Solid Waste Management Policy
Indoor Environmental Quality Management Plan
4. 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
Carbon Footprint
Life Cycle Costing (LCC)
Drip Irrigation
LEED Intent
5. 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
Native or Indigenous Plants
Aquifer
Sustainable Forestry
Metering
6. When symptoms of diagnosable illness are identified and can be attributed to airborne building contaminants (EPA)
Custodial Effectiveness Assessments
Building Related Illness
Carbon Overlay Tool
Conservation
7. 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
Fossil Fuels
Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
Thermal Comfort
Process Water
8. 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.
Light Trespass
Above 530ppm (parts per million).
To prioritize the relative impact of credits on GHG emissions
Adaptive Plant
9. The number of different types of space per acre in an area - think of a mixed-use development - which has both houses and offices
Sustainable
Bioswale
Diversity of Uses
Diversity of Houses
10. The percentage of material in a product that was consumer waste. the recycled material was generated by household - commercial - industrial or institutional end-users and can no longer be used for its intended purpose. it includes returns of material
Development Density
Environmentally Preferable Products
LEED Credit Interpretation Ruling (CIR)
Post-Consumer Recycled Content
11. Ground areas that are vegetated and pervious. green roofs can be considered open space but only for urban areas
Open Space
Thermal Comfort
Green Building
Potable Water
12. 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.
Building Commissioning
90%
Heat Island Effect
Systems Thinking
13. Renewable energy such as solar - wind - biomass - hydro - and geothermal energy
Waste Stream Audit
Chiller
Heat Island Effect
Green Power
14. Heating - ventilating and air conditioning. these systems seek to provide thermal comfort and acceptable indoor air quality
Rapidly Renewable Materials
HVAC System
Hardscape
Diversity of Uses
15. Similar to a bioswale - a depression with vegetation that filters and slows down rainwater to reduce peak discharge rates
Building Related Illness
Raingarden
Light Trespass
Project owner - Architect - Engineers - Commissioning authority - General Contractor - Facilities staff - Building users.
16. Substances used to transfer heat during the mechanical cooling process within air conditioning and refrigerator systems. they act as the heat carrier which changes from gas to liquid and then back to gas in the refrigeration cycle
Triple Bottom Line
Adaptive Reuse
Refrigerant
Ozone (O3)
17. Provide a consistent source of sound technical advice with respect to products - tools and services. TAGs act in an advisory capacity in responding to credit interpretation requests (CIRs) - credit rulings and credit ruling appeals while maintaining
LEED NC&MR
Chiller
LEED Technical Advisory Groups (TAG)
Harvested Rainwater
18. Min' years that a LEED bldg should share its energy & water usage data with USGBCa
Transportation - Site selection - Site design & management - & Stormwater management
Credit Interpretation Rulings (CIRs)
33%-39%
5 years
19. Certified (40-49) - Silver (50-59) - Gold (60-79) - and Platinum (80+)
The four LEED levels
LEED Online
Conservation
Per-Consumer Content
20. Pavement that is less than 50% impervious and contains vegetation in the open cells
Cooling Tower
Open Grid Pavement
Airborne Pollutant
Economic prosperity - environmental stewardship - & social responsibility.
21. Any substance introduced into the environment that adversely affects the usefulness of a resource or the health of humans - animals - or ecosystems (EPA)
Pollutant
Renewable Energy
Building Footprint
Floor Area Ratio
22. To reduce site lighting impact near forestland - the exterior lighting installed should...
Reduce light transpass
Gallons per Minute
Chiller
Stormwater Runoff
23. An unwanted airborne constituent that may reduce acceptability of the air (ASHRAE 62.1-2004)
Contaminant
Infill Development
Integrated Process Team
Submeter
24. All members of the project team working towards the integrated process - including building owners - maintenance staff - planners - designers - etc.
British Thermal Unit (BTU)
Major Construction Phases
Integrated Process Team
Community Connectivity
25. Administrative and procedural requirements for salvaging - recycling and disposing of non-hazardous demolition and [first phrase] -- this means it should cover waste sent to a landfill - salvaging - and recycled waste
Location
Construction Waste Management Plan
Fenestration
Global Warming
26. A system where the output may signal the system to stop changing - i.e. - a thermostat -- at a certain point the temp feedback will tell the system to cut off
Underground Parking
33%-39%
Emergent Properties
Negative Feedback Loop
27. 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
Invasive Plants
Review credit intent & self-evaluate - Review past CIR - and Consult LEED reference guide
British Thermal Unit (BTU)
Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs)
28. Products made from agricultural fiber such as wheat board and straw board
Retrocommissioning
Chiller
Agrifiber Product
Previously Developed Site
29. Investigation and valuation of the environmental impacts of a given product or service. LCA evaluates environmental performance. this view takes into account the whole life of a product or project (not assessing it from a single point in time)
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
Global Warming
Integrated Process
Credit Interpretation Rulings (CIRs)
30. Using local systems to treat waste generated on-site and avoid adding waste to public facilities
On-Site Wastewater Treatment
Baseline v. Actual Use
Water Balance
Water Pollution
31. What is the procedure required to achieve LEED cert?
Life-cycle cost analysis
Reg a project w/ GBCI - pay applicable review fees - & submit doc.
Site Disturbance
Retrocommissioning
32. Materials and products are made from plants that are typically harvested within a 10 year cycle or shorter and are grown and harvested sustainably
Rapidly Renewable Materials
33%-39%
Innovation in Design & Regional Priority has 100 with 10 bonus points. Leed for home has 125.
70%
33. Energy Use Intensity in term of unit
Energy Consumption / # of sq ft. Usually in Btus or kWh/sf/yr.
LEED Online
Gallons per Flush
Compact Fluorescent Lamp (CFL)
34. The official recognition by a local bldg department that bldg conforms to applicable bldg & safety codes.
Global Warming
Biodiversity
Certificate of occupancy
Light Trespass
35. Type of lamp designed to replace an incandescent lamp and fit into existing light fixtures formerly used for incandescent bulbs. compared to incandescent lamps giving the same amount of visible light - these generally use less power - have a longer r
Compact Fluorescent Lamp (CFL)
Off-Gassing (outgassing)
Cradle to Cradle
LEED Credit Checklist
36. 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
LEED Credit Checklist
% of total land are that does not allow moisture penetration
Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
Biomass
37. A roof of a building that is partially or completely covered with vegetation and soil - or a growing medium - planted over a waterproofing membrane
Infill Development
Vegetated (Green) Roof
Custodial Effectiveness Assessments
Negative Feedback Loop
38. 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
Prime Farmland
Light Pollution
Acid Rain
39. A site that is undeveloped and in a natural state or has been used for agriculture
Greenfield
The four LEED levels
Mostly environmental impacts & human benefits
Indoor Environmental Quality Management Plan
40. 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.
Water Balance
LEED Project Boundary
Carbon Neutrality
Baseline v. Actual Use
41. 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
Life Cycle Costing (LCC)
Metering
Ventilation Rate
Indoor Environmental Quality
42. Side effect or consequence of an industrial or commercial activity that affects other parties without this being reflected in the price of the goods or services involved - i.e. the pollution created in power generation for one state blown over anothe
Integrative
Externality
MERV or Minimum Efficiency Reporting Value
Albedo
43. What's the earliest pt at which a LEED for Schools proejct can be cert?
After bldg completion & once all submittals & clarifications are reviewed.
Schematic Design
Composite Wood (engineered lumber)
Airborne Pollutant
44. Hydrochlorofluorocarbons that are used in refrigerants and propellants that are known to deplete the ozone layer
Climate Change
HCFC
Prime Farmland
LEED Technical Advisory Groups (TAG)
45. The carbon overlay in LEED is used for what?
Baseline v. Design
To prioritize the relative impact of credits on GHG emissions
Feedback Loop
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
46. Also known as green tags - RECs or tradable renewable certificates (TRCs) are tradable environmental commodities in the US which represent proof that 1 megawatt hour (MWh) of electricity was generated from an eligible renewable energy resource
Metering
Green Washing
Biodegradable
Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs)
47. Documentation of the results of the commissioning process - including the as-built state of the HVAC system and any unresolved issues found at the time the commissioning process was completed
Systems Thinking
Global Warming
Waste Stream Audit
Commissioning Report
48. The act of having separate stakeholders or designers work together to ensure the project is benefiting from synergy which allows for greater levels of sustainability throughout the project's life
Invasive Plants
Hybrid Vehicle
Gallons per Flush
Integrated Process
49. What level of CO2 concentrations indicates inadequate ventilation?
Above 530ppm (parts per million).
Indoor Environmental Quality Management Plan
Pedestrian Access
Bioswale
50. Watering using above ground sprinkler heads
CO2 Concentrations/Monitoring
Economic prosperity - environmental stewardship - & social responsibility.
Daylighting
Conventional Irrigation
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