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LEED GA: Green Associate
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A pond designed to hold a specific amount of water indefinitely
Graywater (Greywater)
Energy Efficient
Conservation
Wet Pond (retention pond)
2. 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
Construction Waste Management Plan
Open Grid Pavement
Project owner - Architect - Engineers - Commissioning authority - General Contractor - Facilities staff - Building users.
LEED Requirements and Submittals
3. Any method of powering an engine that does not involve solely petroleum (e.g. electric car - petrol-electric hybrid - solar powered)
Waterless Urinal
Alternative Fuel Vehicle
Waste Stream Audit
Indoor Environmental Quality Management Plan
4. How many % of environmental impacts decision are made during the 1st 10% of design process?
Credit Interpretation Rulings (CIRs)
Native or Indigenous Plants
Potable Water
70%
5. Unit of measurement by which flowing devices such as faucets and showers are measured and regulated
LEED Pilot Credit Library
Gallons per Minute
LEED Rating System
Outdoor Air
6. Areas where the upper soil is no longer exposed - including paved areas - walkways - fountains - etc.
Hardscape
Design Development
LEED Prerequisites
Gallons per Flush & Gallons per Minute
7. Air quality within buildings as it relates to the health and comfort of building occupants
24%-50%
Reuse
Diversity of Houses
Indoor Air Quality
8. 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.
33%-39%
Flush-Out
Sustainable Forestry
Gallons per Flush & Gallons per Minute
9. 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
On-Site Wastewater Treatment
Regenerative
Sustainable Purchasing Policy
Pollution
10. Resistance to penetration by a liquid and is calculated as the percentage of area covered by a paving system that does not allow moisture to soak into the ground
Non-renewable Resource
Commingled Recycling
Imperviousness
Major Construction Phases
11. 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
Indoor Air Quality Building Education and Assessment Model (I-BEAM)
Integrated Process
Humidity - Air speed - and Tempt
LEED Credit Interpretation Ruling (CIR)
12. A contractual benchmark that usually corresponds to the point at which a client could occupy a nearly completed space.
Substantial completion
Daylighting
Diversity of Houses
GBCI committees that addresses noncompliance in LEED credential
13. Explores design options & alternatives with the intent to establish an agreed-upon project layout & scope of work.
Schematic Design
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
Imperviousness
Extra categories for LEED for Neighborhood Development
14. 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
GBCI committees that addresses noncompliance in LEED credential
Drip Irrigation
Built Environment
Construction and Demolition Debris
15. Previously undeveloped land that is suited for agriculture
Feedback Loop
Life Cycle Costing (LCC)
Commingled Recycling
Prime Farmland
16. Green Bldg can reduce how much Solid Waste?
Construction Phases Bidding
Flush-Out
Energy Star Portfolio Manager
70%
17. What is reduced when a project uses reclaimed water in its cooling towers?
Installing submeters & using ENERGY STAR certified cloths washers
Biodegradable
Portable water uses
LEED Technical Advisory Groups (TAG)
18. What are the 3D sustainability often described as the triple bottom line or 3 legged stool?
Economic prosperity - environmental stewardship - & social responsibility.
Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS)
24%-50%
Feedback Loop
19. Indigenous or exotic plants that spread outside cultivated areas and can damage environmental or economical resources. they grow quickly and aggressively - spreading and displacing other plants
Market Transformation
Feedback Loop
General requirement for LEED certification documentation
Invasive Plants
20. An expanded baseline for measuring performance - adding social and environmental dimensions to the traditional profit measure - so decisions are viewed in the long term with their impact on people - the planet - and profit
Compliant w/ the green design criteria
Energy Use Intensity (EUI)
Triple Bottom Line
British Thermal Unit (BTU)
21. Light that passes beyond the project boundary - i.e. parking lot lighting that passes into a park next to the project
After bldg completion & once all submittals & clarifications are reviewed.
Light Trespass
Smart Growth
Renewable Energy
22. Waste water from toilets & urinals is known as?
Blackwater (Treatment and definitions vary)
Community Connectivity
Market Transformation
Performance Monitoring
23. 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
The four LEED levels
Soft Cost
LEED Online
Integrated Process
24. Part of the LEED rating system. within each LEED category there are prerequisites and credits. prerequisites must be met for building certification.
LEED Prerequisites
LEED Project Boundary
Above 530ppm (parts per million).
To prioritize the relative impact of credits on GHG emissions
25. Controllability of Systems
LEED Online
The % of occupants who have direct control over tempt - airflow - & lighting in their spaces.
Foot Candle - A ftcandle is equal to 1-lumen/sq-ft
Aquifer
26. The ability of dark - non-reflective paved areas-city streets - rooftops - and sidewalks-to absorb and radiate heat - making urban areas and the surrounding suburbs noticeably hotter than rural towns nearby. other contributors include reduced airflow
Embodied Energy
ASHRAE (ash-ray)
Heat Island Effect
HVAC System
27. The concept that takes into consideration all impacts of the indoor environment on human health and performance - including indoor air quality - daylighting and views - and visual and thermal comfort.
Air Conditioning
After bldg completion & once all submittals & clarifications are reviewed.
Indoor Environmental Quality
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
28. Exterior surface of the building including all walls - windows - floor and roof. separates the building's inside from the outside
Off-Gassing (outgassing)
Open System
Building Envelope (building shell)
LEED Project Boundary
29. Each LEED credit has requirements that must be met and documentation that must be submitted to prove the credit requirements were met
LEED NC&MR
LEED Rating System
Wastewater
LEED Requirements and Submittals
30. Process for project teams to obtain technical guidance on how LEED requirements pertain to their projects
Design
Credit Interpretation Rulings (CIRs)
Ozone (O3)
Light Pollution
31. 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
Conservation
Nonpoint-source pollution
Material Reuse
Drip Irrigation
32. A measure of the amount of illumination falling on a surface.
Project owner - Architect - Engineers - Commissioning authority - General Contractor - Facilities staff - Building users.
Post-Consumer Recycled Content
LEED Pilot Credit Library
Foot Candle - A ftcandle is equal to 1-lumen/sq-ft
33. Used to store excess stormwater. these are basins whose outlets have been designed to detain stormwater runoff for some minimum time (e.g. 24 hrs). the stormwater will slowly seep into the ground to recharge aquifers or discharge as determined by the
Blackwater (Treatment and definitions vary)
Design
Integrated Design
Dry Pond (detention ponds)
34. An accounting of all water volumes that enter and leave a space over a period of time
Water Balance
United States Green Building Council (USGBC)
Integrated Process
Sulfur dioxide & Nitrogen oxide
35. An assessment of the greenhouse gases (which includes more than just CO2) emitted by a particular organization - project or activity
Carbon Footprint
Feedback Loop
Negative Feedback Loop
Passive Design
36. The percentage of waste materials diverted from traditional disposal such as landfilling or incineration to be recycled - composted or reused (EPA)
Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)
Custodial Effectiveness Assessments
Diversion Rate
Cradle to Cradle
37. The percentage of water volume beneficially used by plants to the volume of water delivered through an irrigation system. water wasted would evaporate - fall on hardscapes - or runoff. drip irrigation is the most efficient with a 90% irrigation effic
Irrigation Efficiency
Environmental aspect & potential impacts
Stormwater Runoff
Energy Star Rating
38. Water leaving plants and soil returning back to the atmosphere
Material Reuse
Evapotranspiration
Montreal Protocol
Imperviousness
39. Temperature of the surrounding air or other medium (EPA)
Environmental Sustainability
Ambient Temperature
LEED Online
Net-Zero Energy
40. Any opening in a building - such as windows - doors - skylights - curtain walls - etc. - designed to permit the passage of air - light - vehicles - or people
Fenestration
Building Density
Mass Transit
Integrated Design
41. A systematic process of assuring that a building and its systems performs in accordance with the design intent and the owner's requirements
Integrated Process
Air Conditioning
Bypass otherwise required submittals
Commissioning
42. 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
Portable water uses
Nonpoint Source Pollution
Metering
Contaminant
43. Life-cycle assessment is used to determine what?
Certificate of occupancy
Environmental aspect & potential impacts
Adaptive Reuse
Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)
44. The measurement method for defining Irrigation Efficiency
Commingled Recycling
Potable Water
Dry Pond (detention ponds)
% of water delivered by irrigation equipment that is actually used for irrigation & not evaporate/blowaway/fall on hardscape
45. 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
Raingarden
Hardscape
Ozone (O3)
Open System
46. The licensed-pro exemption is used by a project team to do what?
Air Quality Standards
Substantial completion
Bypass otherwise required submittals
LEED Online
47. Method of land use regulation used by local governments in most developed countries. zoning may be use-based (regulating the uses to which land may be put) - or it may regulate building height - lot coverage - and similar characteristics - or some co
Negative Feedback Loop
Ventilation Rate
Zoning
Air Quality Standards
48. What is the procedure required to achieve LEED cert?
Passive Design
Reg a project w/ GBCI - pay applicable review fees - & submit doc.
LEED Pilot Credit Library
Reduce light transpass
49. 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
Gallons per Minute
Value Engineering
Periodic maintenance must occur. Recommissioning along with occupant surveying (via post-occupancy evaluation) at regular interval.
Building Footprint
50. A program that was first developed in 1992 by the US EPA as a method to identify and promote products that are energy efficient. products carrying this symbol provide a way for businesses and consumers to save money - while at the same time - protect
Sustainable Forestry
Energy Star Rating
Pollutant
Zoning