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LEED GA: Green Associate
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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
Biodegradable
Energy Conservation
Periodic maintenance must occur. Recommissioning along with occupant surveying (via post-occupancy evaluation) at regular interval.
Air Conditioning
2. Allowing pedestrians to walk between areas without interference from walls - highways or other barriers
Adaptive Plant
Pedestrian Access
Negative Feedback Loop
Nested System
3. Third party certification program and the nationally accepted benchmark for the design - construction and operation of high performance green buildings (USGBC)
Outdoor Air
LEED Project Boundary
Open Grid Pavement
LEED
4. An international treaty designed to protect the ozone layer by phasing out the production of numerous substances believed to be responsible for ozone depletion
Integrated Process
Environmental Sustainability
Brownfields
Montreal Protocol
5. The mathematical expression of Imperviousness
% of total land are that does not allow moisture penetration
LEED Credit
Energy Efficient
70%
6. 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)
Alternative Fuel Vehicle
Light Pollution
Volatile Organic Compound
Low Impact Development
7. 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
Adaptive Plant
Raingarden
To qualify for Minimum Program Requirements
8. The process of collecting (commonly from a roof) - storing and using rainwater
Net-Zero Energy
Ambient Temperature
Rainwater Harvesting
Extra categories for LEED for Neighborhood Development
9. A strategy to use existing materials in a similar or different capacity
Periodic maintenance must occur. Recommissioning along with occupant surveying (via post-occupancy evaluation) at regular interval.
Design Development
Reuse
Open Space
10. What are the 3D sustainability often described as the triple bottom line or 3 legged stool?
After bldg completion & once all submittals & clarifications are reviewed.
Economic prosperity - environmental stewardship - & social responsibility.
Refrigerant
Wastewater
11. If a bldg is designed to move at any point in its lifetime - what LEED certification is it eligible for?
Biodiversity
Integrated Process Team
Commingled Recycling
None.
12. The use of technology that requires less energy to perform the same function. a compact fluorescent light bulb that uses less energy than an incandescent bulb to produce the same amount of light is an example. the decision to replace an incandescent
Compact Fluorescent Lamp (CFL)
Energy Efficient
Green Building
Rapidly Renewable Materials
13. 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
Cradle to Grave
Post-Consumer Recycled Content
Contaminant
Bypass otherwise required submittals
14. Any opening in a building - such as windows - doors - skylights - curtain walls - etc. - designed to permit the passage of air - light - vehicles - or people
Waterless Urinal
Prime Farmland
Sustainable Forestry
Fenestration
15. Wood manufactured by binding together the strands - particles - fibers - or veneers of wood - together with adhesives - to form [first word] materials
250 square ft
HCFC
Drip Irrigation
Composite Wood (engineered lumber)
16. 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
Transportation - Site selection - Site design & management - & Stormwater management
Community Connectivity
Per-Consumer Content
Indoor Air Quality
17. Green bldg emphasizes using what type of design process?
LEED Credit
Schematic Design
Fossil Fuels
Integrative
18. Predesign - Design - Bid - Construction - and Occupancy
Square Footage of a Building
Flush-Out
Major Construction Phases
Perviousness
19. Part of construction waste management plan
Non-renewable Resource
Commingled Recycling
Waste Management Plan
Adaptive Plant
20. An accounting of all water volumes that enter and leave a space over a period of time
Native or Indigenous Plants
Water Balance
Biodiversity
None.
21. Used to describe situations in which building occupants experience acute health and comfort effects that appear to be linked to time spent in a building - but no specific illness or cause can be identified
Construction and Demolition Debris
Impervious Surfaces
Emissivity (of a material)
Sick Building Syndrome
22. An intense collaborative session where participants make a concerted effort to solve a problem or plan the design of something
Charrette (shuh-ret)
Reg a project w/ GBCI - pay applicable review fees - & submit doc.
LEED Online
Integrated Pest Management
23. The portion of the project site submitted for LEED certification. for multiple building developments - the LEED project boundary may be a portion of the development as determined by the project team
Climate Change
Building Related Illness
Agrifiber Product
LEED Project Boundary
24. Watering using above ground sprinkler heads
Conventional Irrigation
Extra categories for LEED for Neighborhood Development
Commissioning
Schematic Design
25. 1) Cost of green bldg Each Prerequisite and Credit has 2 major components - and those are: Intents and Requirements
Life-cycle cost analysis
Building Footprint
Substantial completion
Open Grid Pavement
26. Ruling process for project applicants seeking technical and administrative guidance on how LEED credits apply to their projects and vice versa. (USGBC) LEED interpretations are the result of a CIR and may determine how future project teams use LEED
Carbon Neutrality
Pollutant
Environmental Sustainability
LEED Credit Interpretation Ruling (CIR)
27. In LEED credit weightings - the most important impact category
Climate Change
Vegetated (Green) Roof
Cradle to Grave
LEED Intent
28. When symptoms of diagnosable illness are identified and can be attributed to airborne building contaminants (EPA)
Life Cycle Costing (LCC)
Installing submeters & using ENERGY STAR certified cloths washers
Building Related Illness
Harvested Rainwater
29. Pollution of water generally results from multiple sources vs. just one source - examples are runoff from roads - drainage from buildings - seepage - runoff from farmland. pollution in a river may not be exactly pinpointed because most pollution is n
LEED NC&MR
LEED Rating System
Photovoltaic Energy (PV)
Nonpoint Source Pollution
30. A pond designed to hold a specific amount of water indefinitely
Wet Pond (retention pond)
Adaptive Plant
Non-Potable Water
Flush-Out
31. 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
Baseline Building Performance
Construction Administration
Environmental aspect & potential impacts
Systems Thinking
32. 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
Vegetated (Green) Roof
Potable Water
Environmental Sustainability
Value Engineering
33. 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
Wet Pond (retention pond)
Refrigerant
Cooling Tower
Development Density
34. An increase in the near surface temp of the earth. this has occurred in the distant past as the result of natural influences - but the term is most often used to refer to the warming predicted to occur as a result of increased emissions of greenhouse
Greenhouse Gases
Design Development
Global Warming
Irrigation Efficiency
35. When an exisiting building undergoes the commissioning process to discover if improvements or changes should be made to improve the building
None.
Aquifer
Value Engineering
Retrocommissioning
36. Being able to allow water or air to filtrate through
Brownfields
% of water delivered by irrigation equipment that is actually used for irrigation & not evaporate/blowaway/fall on hardscape
Perviousness
250 square ft
37. The practice of placing windows - or other transparent media - and reflective surfaces so that - during the day - natural light provides effective internal illumination
Wet Pond (retention pond)
Daylighting
Energy Efficient
Erosion
38. The presence in water of enough harmful or objectionable material to damage the water's quality (EPA)
Water Pollution
Soft Cost
Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS)
Green Washing
39. Urinals that do not use water at all. these systems can save anywhere between 15000 and 45000 gallons of water per urinal per year
Positive Feedback Loop
Periodic maintenance must occur. Recommissioning along with occupant surveying (via post-occupancy evaluation) at regular interval.
Waterless Urinal
LEED Online
40. Explores design options & alternatives with the intent to establish an agreed-upon project layout & scope of work.
Schematic Design
Photovoltaic Energy (PV)
Ozone (O3)
Indoor Environmental Quality
41. How many % of environmental impacts decision are made during the 1st 10% of design process?
United States Green Building Council (USGBC)
HVAC System
70%
The % of occupants who have direct control over tempt - airflow - & lighting in their spaces.
42. Part of a refrigeration system - a machine that removes heat from liquid via a vapor-compression or absorption refrigeration cycle
Chiller
Conservation
Connections & Communication btw professionals & throughout the life of a project
Building Commissioning
43. Centerline miles/square mile - a centerline mile is measuring a particular road down its center. higher street grid densities are beneficial for pedestrians
Market Transformation
Agrifiber Product
Rating system and Project size
Street Grid Density
44. The linear view of the life of a product - from creation to the end of useful life - ie disposal
Floor-To-Area
Cradle to Grave
Portable water uses
Hardscape
45. 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
Diversity of Houses
Sustainable Purchasing Policy
Xeriscaping
Wet Pond (retention pond)
46. This concept is thought of as more sustainable. ex: plants grow in a field - produce oxygen - take in water - then die and decay which helps plants grow. these can be linked so one system uses the byproducts of another
Mostly environmental impacts & human benefits
Potable Water
Non-Potable Water
Closed System
47. Any substance in air that could - in high enough concentration - harm man - other animals - vegetation - or material (EPA)
Airborne Pollutant
Periodic maintenance must occur. Recommissioning along with occupant surveying (via post-occupancy evaluation) at regular interval.
To prioritize the relative impact of credits on GHG emissions
Cooling Tower
48. Concept of integrative design emphasizes
Bypass otherwise required submittals
Connections & Communication btw professionals & throughout the life of a project
Baseline v. Design
Rating system and Project size
49. A control system capable of monitoring environmental and system loads and adjusting HVAC operations accordingly in order to conserve energy while maintaining comfort (EPA)
Bake-Out
On-Site Wastewater Treatment
Energy Management System
Systems Thinking
50. 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
Square Footage of a Building
Building Codes
Energy Use Intensity (EUI)
Certificate of occupancy