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LEED GA: Green Associate
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1. Begins the process of spatial refinement & usually involves the 1st design of a project's energy system.
Open Grid Pavement
Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS)
Design Development
Diversity of Uses
2. What metric is the best indicator of transportation impacts associated with a bldg project?
Vehicle miles traveled
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
Bypass otherwise required submittals
Floodplain
3. Waste water from toilets & urinals is known as?
Energy Star Rating
Blackwater (Treatment and definitions vary)
Stormwater Runoff
Process Water
4. Encourages and accelerates global adoption of sustainable green building and development practices through the creation and implementation of universally understood and accepted tools and performance criteria (USGBC). there are multiple rating system
LEED Rating System
Baseline v. Actual Use
Process Water
Ecosystem
5. Process for project teams to obtain technical guidance on how LEED requirements pertain to their projects
LEED Online
Credit Interpretation Rulings (CIRs)
5 years
Waste Diversion
6. If a bldg is designed to move at any point in its lifetime - what LEED certification is it eligible for?
Building Envelope (building shell)
Mass Transit
None.
Cradle to Cradle
7. Major Players in Design & Construction Process are...
Byproduct
Montreal Protocol
Project owner - Architect - Engineers - Commissioning authority - General Contractor - Facilities staff - Building users.
Solid Waste Management Policy
8. 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
LEED Technical Advisory Groups (TAG)
Custodial Effectiveness Assessments
Value Engineering
CO2 Concentrations/Monitoring
9. An intense collaborative session where participants make a concerted effort to solve a problem or plan the design of something
Charrette (shuh-ret)
Value Engineering
Water Balance
Erosion
10. Uses the natural forces of wind and buoyancy to deliver fresh air into buildings through doors - windows or other designed opening (chimneys)
Baseline Vs Design
Natural (or passive) Ventilation
Performance Monitoring
Imperviousness
11. Material - other than the principle product - generated as a consequence of an industrial process or as a breakdown product in a living system (EPA)
Byproduct
Development Footprint
70%
24%-50%
12. Prior to final selection of site - owner & design team should confirm that the site is...
Compliant w/ the green design criteria
Environmental Sustainability
Greenhouse Gases
Daylighting
13. 4 key issues that help define how location affect project
Integrated Pest Management
Salvaged Materials
Biodegradable
Transportation - Site selection - Site design & management - & Stormwater management
14. Indicates a material's ability to reject solar heat and is the combined value of reflectivity and emittance. measurements vary from 100 (standard white surface - most reflective) - to 0 (standard black surface - least reflective). materials with the
Emergent Properties
Solar Reflectance Index (SRI)
Non-Potable Water
Negative Feedback Loop
15. 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
HVAC System
Light Trespass
Sick Building Syndrome
Invasive Plants
16. Green Bldg can reduce how much CO2 Emissions?
LEED Online
Integrative
33%-39%
Perviousness
17. Potential credits and categories that may be used in upcoming versions of the LEED rating systems
Integrated Design
Development Density
LEED Pilot Credit Library
Location
18. Used by the USGBC to weight credits in the LEED system. credits that reduce the greenhouse gas emissions are given more weight than those that do not
Carbon Overlay Tool
Soft Cost
Graywater (Greywater)
Infill Development
19. 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
Flush-Out
Commingled Recycling
Global Warming
Albedo
20. Carrying away or displacement of solids (sediment - soil - rock - and other particles) usually by the agents of currents such as wind - water - or ice by downward or down-slope movement in response to gravity
Street Grid Density
Transportation - Site selection - Site design & management - & Stormwater management
Erosion
Energy Star Rating
21. The practice of creating structures and using processes that are environmentally responsible and resource efficient throughout a building's life cycle from siting to design - construction - operation - maintenance - renovation and deconstruction. thi
Green Building
None.
Sick Building Syndrome
Acid Rain
22. 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
Reduce light transpass
Bioswale
Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS)
Energy Efficient
23. Capable of being decomposed by natural agents - especially bacteria
Sustainable Forestry
Prime Farmland
Review credit intent & self-evaluate - Review past CIR - and Consult LEED reference guide
Biodegradable
24. Third party certification program and the nationally accepted benchmark for the design - construction and operation of high performance green buildings (USGBC)
LEED
Square Footage of a Building
Space heating (38%). Lighting (20%)
Cradle to Cradle
25. 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
Nested System
The % of occupants who have direct control over tempt - airflow - & lighting in their spaces.
Triple Bottom Line
Zoning
26. 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
Open System
LEED Prerequisites
Carbon Footprint
Install submeters & Select local plants
27. Any of various halocarbon compounds consisting of carbon - hydrogen - chlorine - and fluorine - once used widely as aerosol propellants and refrigerants. these are believed to cause depletion of the atmospheric ozone layer
Major Construction Phases
Light Pollution
Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)
United States Green Building Council (USGBC)
28. Materials from construction sites or existing buildings that are reused in the same or different capacity. examples can include flooring - brick - beams - and doors
Salvaged Materials
Evapotranspiration
Carbon Footprint
Bypass otherwise required submittals
29. 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
Potable Water
Conservation
Per-Consumer Content
Evapotranspiration
30. Air that enters into a building either naturally through pre-designed openings in the building or through the ventilation system
Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs)
Indoor Environmental Quality Management Plan
Performance Monitoring
Outdoor Air
31. Urinals that do not use water at all. these systems can save anywhere between 15000 and 45000 gallons of water per urinal per year
Indoor Environmental Quality
Adaptive Plant
Environmental Sustainability
Waterless Urinal
32. 1) Cost of green bldg Each Prerequisite and Credit has 2 major components - and those are: Intents and Requirements
Waste Stream Audit
Life-cycle cost analysis
Open System
Foot Candle - A ftcandle is equal to 1-lumen/sq-ft
33. Document that outlines the organization - schedule - allocation of resources - and documentation requirements of the commissioning process
Commissioning Plan
Retrocommissioning
Pollution
Systems Thinking
34. Hydrochlorofluorocarbons that are used in refrigerants and propellants that are known to deplete the ozone layer
Rainwater Harvesting
Building Envelope (building shell)
HCFC
Certificate of occupancy
35. A process used to remove VOCs from a bldg by elevating the tempt in the fully furnished & ventilated bldg prior to human occupancy.
Diversity of Houses
Indoor Air Quality
5 years
Bake-Out
36. The min' floor area for CI
Development Density
Retrocommissioning
Indoor Environmental Quality Management Plan
250 square ft
37. Exterior surface of the building including all walls - windows - floor and roof. separates the building's inside from the outside
Regional Material
Conventional Irrigation
Building Envelope (building shell)
Green Washing
38. 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
Vegetated (Green) Roof
Integrated Process
Building Related Illness
Blackwater (Treatment and definitions vary)
39. Predesign - Design - Bid - Construction - and Occupancy
Prime Farmland
Raingarden
Major Construction Phases
Previously Developed Site
40. 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
Embodied Energy
HVAC System
Green Power
Commissioning Report
41. The linear view of the life of a product - from creation to the end of useful life - ie disposal
Cradle to Grave
Daylighting
The average marginal cost is less than 2%. In addition. it reduces use - consumption - cost - & liability.
Life Cycle Costing (LCC)
42. An international treaty designed to protect the ozone layer by phasing out the production of numerous substances believed to be responsible for ozone depletion
Process Water
Montreal Protocol
Community Connectivity
Greenfield
43. Advertising a product or policy to be more beneficial to the environment than is true
Green Washing
Air Conditioning
Rainwater Harvesting
Global Warming
44. A contractual benchmark that usually corresponds to the point at which a client could occupy a nearly completed space.
Substantial completion
Street Grid Density
Location & Linkages. Awareness & Education
Above 530ppm (parts per million).
45. 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.
Commissioning Report
Building Commissioning
Net-Zero Energy
Refrigerant
46. Green Bldg can reduce how much Energy Use?
Prime Farmland
Indoor Environmental Quality
24%-50%
Post-Consumer Recycled Content
47. Process water can be reduced by which 2 methods?
Reuse
Construction Phases Bidding
Underground Parking
Installing submeters & using ENERGY STAR certified cloths washers
48. The stewardship and use of forests and forest lands in a way - and at a rate - that maintains their biodiversity - productivity - regeneration capacity - vitality and their potential to fulfill - now and in the future - relevant ecological - economic
LEED Category
Economic prosperity - environmental stewardship - & social responsibility.
Sustainable Forestry
Building Footprint
49. Evaluation of the total cost of a building or product over its useful life - including initial - maintenance - repair and replacement costs as well as savings. LCC evaluates economic performance.
Non-Potable Water
Solar Reflectance Index (SRI)
Building Envelope (building shell)
Life Cycle Costing (LCC)
50. The mathematical expression of Imperviousness
Per-Consumer Content
Building Density
Bypass otherwise required submittals
% of total land are that does not allow moisture penetration