GBES LEED Green Associate Flash Cards

LEED Green Associate LEED Green Associate
What are the Minimum Program What is ASHRAE 62.1

Requirements (MPR)
related to?
for a LEED project?
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What is ASHRAE 55 What is ASHRAE 90.1

related to? related to?
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What ASHRAE standards

would be used for the
What does ASHRAE
Energy and Atmosphere
stand for? category?
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1. Must be in a permanent location

on existing land
ASHRAE 62.1 is related to 2. Must use a reasonable site
ventilation, controlling air boundary
contaminant levels, humidity, 3. Must comply with the project
and temperature within a space. size requirements
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ASHRAE 90.1 relates to ASHRAE 55 is related to the

comfort criteria of specific
HVAC systems. HVAC
design
Copyrightconditions that
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purchaser
systems are defined as: account temperature, humidity,
equipment, distribution air speed, outdoor temperature,
systems, and terminals that outdoor humidity, seasonal
provide the processes of clothing, and expected activity.
heating, ventilating, or air- These all relates to occupant
conditioning. thermal comfort.
American Society of
Heating, Refrigerating and
Air-Conditioning Engineers
ASHRAE 90.1
What ASHRAE standards would What standard addresses the

be used for the Indoor thermal comfort of building
Environmental Quality occupants?
category?
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What LEED category would What LEED category would

SMACNA standards be the Green-e standard be
used for? used for?
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LEED Green Associate

What LEED categories

contain standards related to What is a MERV rating?
VOC emissions?
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ASHRAE 62.1 is related to

ventilation and ASHRAE 55 is
ASHRAE 55 related to the thermal comfort
criteria of occupants
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Energy and Atmosphere Indoor Environmental

(EA) Quality (IEQ)
Minimum Efficiency Reporting Materials & Resources (MR)

Value (MERV). MERV ratings and Indoor Environmental
are used to rate the ability of an
Quality (IEQ)
air conditioning filter to remove
dust from the air as it passes
through the filter. MERV
ratings range from 1 (least
efficient) - 16 (most efficient)
What is the EPAct of 1992? What is ISO 14021?
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What is IESNA? What is Green-e?
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What does an ENERGY What does Certification by

STAR rating refer to? FOREST STEWARDSHIP
COUNCIL mean?
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The Energy Policy Act of 1992

The ISO 14021 series standards, (EPAct 1992) covers many
Environmental Labels and Declaration, products and services related
are communication tools that convey
to energy. It also sets standards
information on environmental aspects of
a product or service to the market. This for toilets and other water
standard is used for recycled materials fixtures in both commercial and
to label their pre and/or post-consumer residential models.
content.
Green-e is a program Copyright GBES - intended for use by purchaser
established to promote green Illuminating Engineering Society

electricity products and of North America. Publisher of
lighting design and illumination
provide consumers with a
standards.
nationally recognized method
to identify those products.

Certification means forest The ENERGY STAR rating is a

managers have adopted measure of a building's energy
environmentally and socially performance compared with
responsible forest management that of similar buildings, as
practices. And certification determined by ENERGY STAR
allows companies to Portfolio Manager. A score of
manufacture and sell products 50 represents average building
made from sustainable wood. performance.
What are CREDIT

What is Chain-of-Custody (CoC)
INTERPRETATION RULINGS
Certification?
(CIR)?
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CIRs can be used for what For multiple building

purpose(s)? developments who
determines the LEED
PROJECT BOUNDARY?
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What is LEED Online? What are some of the

features of LEED Online?
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They are designed for technical and administrative Chain of Custody refers to chronological
guidance for MPR, Prerequisites, and Credits. documentation or paper trail. CoC is important in
They may be submitted any time after the project is LEED when dealing with certified wood. Companies
that process, manufacture, and/or sell products
registered and must be completed using LEED
made of certified wood can earn CoC certification by
Online. Do not write as a letter. Include only the
having an audit done of their documentation. This
inquiry and essential information. CIRs can contain certification shows the FSC that the name and logo
maximum 600 words. The CIR may NOT include are being used correctly.
attachments, cut-sheets, plans or drawings.
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CIRs areGBESuse
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to ask by purchaser
clear
and concise question for
technical and administrative
The project team. guidance on MPRs,
Prerequisites, or Credits.

Through LEED Online, project teams

can manage project details,
complete documentation LEED online is the primary
requirements for LEED credits and
prerequisites, upload supporting resource for managing the
files, submit applications for review, LEED documentation
receive reviewer feedback, and process.
ultimately earn LEED certification

What is the purpose of a LEED Where can the LEED Score

SCORECARD? Card be found?
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What are the LEED Reference What do the LEED Reference

Guides used for? Guides contain?
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Who can access LEED What general

Online? documentation must be
submitted for LEED
certification?
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The LEED Scorecard is to

assist in determining the
Total Project Score and
USGBC's website
achievable Credits at the
inception of a LEED Project.
Strategies, case studies, and

documentation requirements A user's manual that guides a
for each credit and LEED project from registration
prerequisite in a rating to certification of the design
system. and construction of a project.
Project narrative
1) Project photos/drawings Anyone assigned to a project
by the project administrator
2) Typical floor plans
3) Elevations
What organization is
responsible for LEED project What is a LEED intent?
registration?
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What does a Why do projects need to meet

PREREQUISITE represent? prerequisites?
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How many CERTIFICATION What are the different

LEVELS are available to a certification levels LEED
LEED project? projects can earn?
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Identifies the main sustainability goal or

benefit of the prerequisite or credit. GBCI
(USGBC)
A prerequisite represents the

Prerequisites represent the key criteria that define green
key criteria that define green building performance. They
must be completed for a project
building performance.
to earn certification.

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-Certified
-Silver
-Gold 4
-Platinum
How are CIRs submitted? What are the amount of

points a credit can earn
(credit weighting) based on?
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What is environmental What is considered a

sustainability? construction HARD COST?
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What is a construction hard What are some examples of

cost? construction hard costs?
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How well the credit address Credit interpretation requests

environmental and health must be submitted through
concerns. LEED Online.
Construction hard cost are

considered to be CSI
Long-term maintenance of
MasterFormat 2004 Edition
ecosystem components and
Divisions 03-10, 31 (Section
functions for future
31.60.00 Foundations) and 32
generations. (EPA)
(Sections 32.10.00 Paving,
32.30.00 Site Improvements, and
32.90.00 Planting

By far the largest portion of the

expenses in a construction
budget, the hard costs are
mostly comprised of the actual
Cement, steel, drywall, wood, construction costs incurred to
land build the project. Examples of
hard costs include masonry,
wood, steel, carpet, tile,
mechanical systems, roofing.
What is meant by LIFE-CYCLE

What are CONSTRUCTION
ASSESSMENT?
SOFT COSTS?
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What are some examples of What factors dictate how

construction SOFT COSTS? much a projects
CERTIFICATION fees will
cost?
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LEED promotes what type of What has USGBC adapted

approach to sustainability? to establish metrics and
rating systems to measure
building performance?
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A Life-Cycle assessment is an Soft costs are expense items

analysis of the environment that are not considered direct
aspects and potential impacts construction costs such as
associated with a product, legal fees and building
process, or service. permitting.


The rating system in which
the project is registered Examples include
under, the size of the project architectural, engineering,
in square feet, and the date in financing, and legal fees.
which the project was
registered.
Triple bottom line A whole building approach
When can a LEED project be

eligible to display the LEED What does each category in
plaque and other marketing the LEED rating system
material? consist of?
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What are names of the What is LEED?

LEED Rating Systems?
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What does LEED stand for? What parts of the LEED

rating system are optional?
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LEED projects are eligible

Prerequisites and credits following the acceptance of a
final certification review.

An internationally recognized green building Building Design and Construction

certification system, providing third-party (BD+C)
verification that a building or community was
designed and built using strategies aimed at -Interior Design and Construction
improving performance across all the metrics (ID+C)
that matter most: energy savings, water -Operations and Maintenance (O+M)
efficiency, CO2 emissions reduction,
improved indoor environmental quality, and -Neighborhood Development (ND)
stewardship of resources and sensitivity to
their impacts. (USGBC) -Homes
The Leadership in Energy

and Environmental Design
Credits are optional, (LEED) Green Building
prerequisites are required Rating System
What is the total number of

How is LEED developed?
points available a LEED
project can earn?
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What are the different

point/certification levels for What is SMACNA used for?
LEED certification?
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What is Green Seal used for? What type of products are

related to the Green Seal
standard?
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LEED Rating Systems are

developed through an open,
110 possible points consensus-based process led
by LEED volunteer committees.

Sheet Metal and Air Conditioning -Certified,

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Contractor's National Association
(SMACNA) guidelines play a key role in -Silver, 50-59 points
construction activity pollution
-Gold, 60-79 points
prevention. The standard provides an
overview of air pollutants associated -Platinum, 80+ points
with construction, control measures,
construction process management,
quality control, among other things.
Green Seal is an independent

nonprofit organization that
indentifies and promotes
Paints and primers products that are
environmentally preferable.
Several of its standards
measure VOC limits in
products.
What are LEED credit

What LEED credit category has
templates?
credits that reference the Green
Seal standard?
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What is a PRELIMINARY Can a project earn MULITPLE

RATING? CERTIFICATIONS?
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What are some ways the What is the triple bottom

TRIPLE BOTTOM LINE is line?
referred to?
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The documentation forms used

to prove the requirements of a
prerequisite or credit have been Indoor Environmental Quality
met. These will be filled out in (IEQ)
LEED Online.
Yes. Projects can earn more The target score the project
than one LEED certification team will attempt to achieve.
The final score, based on the
depending on the Rating number of points awarded, may
Systems. be more or less than the
preliminary rating.
A change from being primarily 1. Ecology, environment,

financially driven to economics
considering economics, 2. People, profit, planet
environment, and social
3. Economics, ecology, social
responsibility
equity

What CREDIT CATEGORIES

What is a LEED CREDIT?
are shared among most LEED
rating systems?
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What is a GREEN SCORE? What is the highest LEED

CERTIFICATION LEVEL?
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What is a LEED category? What is a CIR?
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Location and Transportation,

Sustainable Sites, Water
Part of the LEED Rating
Efficiency, Energy and
System. Projects earn points
Atmosphere, Materials and
by meeting the requirements of
Resources, Indoor
credits in order to achieve
Environmental Quality,
building certification.
Innovation

A green score measures the

Platinum 'greenness' of an automobile.

A CIR is a credit
interpretation ruling and is a
process for project
applicants seeking technical A subset of the LEED
and administrative guidance Rating System. Each
on how LEED credits apply rating system has several
to their projects and vice green building categories.
versa.

What does SUSTAINABILITY

What is USGBC?
mean?
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Who develops LEED? What types of projects would

LEED BD+C be used for?
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What types of projects would What types of projects

LEED ID+C be used for? would LEED BD+C: Core &
Shell be used for?
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A non-profit trade organization

Sustainability is meeting the
that promotes sustainability in
needs of the present without
how buildings are designed,
compromising the ability of
built, and operated
future generations to meet their
own needs.
New construction and major Volunteer committees

renovations.
For designers, builders,

developers and new building
owners who want to address
sustainable design for new core Interior fit-outs.
and shell construction. Covers
base building elements such as
structure, envelope and the
HVAC system.
What types of projects would What types of projects would

LEED for Homes be used for? LEED O+M be used for?
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What types of projects What types of projects would

would LEED for LEED BD+C: Schools be
Neighborhood Development used for?
be used for?
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What types of projects would What types of projects

LEED BD+C: Retail be would LEED BD+C:
used for? Healthcare be used for?
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Existing buildings that are

undergoing improvement work High-performance green
or little to no construction. homes.

The design and construction of K- New land development

12 schools. Based on the LEED projects or redevelopment
for New Construction rating projects containing
system, it addresses issues such residential uses,
as classroom acoustics, master nonresidential uses, or a
planning, mold prevention and
mix.
environmental site assessment.
Sustainable planning, The different types of

design and construction for spaces that retailers need
high-performance for their distinctive product
healthcare facilities. lines.

True or False: Can a product

What LEED category can earn
can earn LEED certification?
points for low-emitting
materials?
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What is life cycle costing? What is life cycle

assessment?
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When should life cycle Why should you use life

assessment be used? cycle costing?
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Indoor Environmental Quality FALSE

(IEQ)

The investigation and

valuation of the
environmental impacts of a Evaluates a product's
given product or service economic performance
caused or necessitated by
its existence.
When there exists project When considering the

alternatives that fulfill the same products long term
performance requirements, but environmental impact over
differ with respect to initial the products lifetime.
costs and operating costs. The
comparison can help maximize
net savings.
True or False: LEED projects True or False: Using an

are more expensive than integrative process takes longer
traditional projects than traditional projects
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What is value engineering? What is pervious pavement

used for?
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What is SOLAR What is HEAT ISLAND

REFLECTANCE? effect?
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FALSE Generally this is false,

but sometimes they cost more
FALSE or less depending on the
situation. This point is often
argued among the building
community.

Pervious pavement is used Analysis of the

to reduce runoff by allowing requirements of a project
runoff to filter through the for the purpose of achieving
pervious material. the essential functions at
the lowest total costs
The heat island effect is a situation It is a measure of the ability of a

where the absorption of heat by surface material to reflect sunlight
hardscapes, buildings and dark in forms of visible, infrared, and
materials then radiates to ultraviolet wavelengths, which is
surrounding areas. The term measured on a scale of 0 to 1. Black
describes the event where radiant paint has an albedo of 0 and white
air and surface temperatures in paint has an albedo of 1.
urban areas are higher than rural or
suburban areas nearby.
What can cause the heat island

effect? What is SOLAR REFLECTANCE
INDEX (SRI)?
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What are the benefits of What are some types of

reducing heat islands? DIVERSE USES?
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What are some ways to What is a BROWNFIELD?

reduce automobile parking?
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A measure of the constructed surfaces ability -Dark surfaces that absorb heat
to stay cool in the sun by reflecting solar
radiation and emitting thermal radiation. It is
(black roofs, asphalt)
defined such that a standard black surface -vehicle exhaust
(initial solar reflectance 0.05, initial thermal
emittance 0.90) has an initial SRI of 0, and a
-air-conditioners
standard white surface (initial solar reflectance -reduced air flow from tall
0.80, initial thermal emittance 0.90) has an initial
SRI of 100.
buildings and narrow streets
Bank, Place of Worship, Convenience Reducing heat islands

Grocery, Day Care Center, Cleaners, reduces air
Fire Station, Beauty Salon, Hardware, temperatures which
Laundry, Library, Medical or Dental
Office, Senior Care Facility, Park,
would reduce the need
Pharmacy, Post Office, Restaurant, to cool that air in
School, Supermarket, Theater, buildings. Thus energy
Community consumption is lowered.

Real property whose use Select a site near mass

may be complicated by the transit
presence or possible Promote carpooling
presence of a hazardous Install less parking
substance, pollutant, or
Install bicycle racks
contaminant.
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What are ways to reduce

What do reflective materials help single passenger vehicles
with? traveling to a project site?
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True or False: LEED projects
are more expensive than
traditional projects What term defines paving
What does PREFERRED systems that are open and
PARKING refer to? allow moisture to soak
into the ground below?
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What minimum Green Score What do IMPERVIOUS

is required by LEED for a surfaces promote?
vehicle to qualify as a green
vehicle?
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Locate the site near mass

transit, promote carpooling, Reducing the heat
reduce parking spaces, install island effect.
bicycle racks

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Preferred parking refers to the

parking spots that are closest
Pervious. There are many to the main entrance of the
types of pervious paving project (exclusive of spaces
systems. designated for handicapped
persons) or parking passes
provided at a discounted price.

It promotes water runoff A minimum Green Score of

instead of infiltration into 45 is required on the
the subsurface. This term American Council for an
is mostly used when Energy Efficient Economy
discussing hardscape (ACEEE) annual vehicle
surfaces. rating guide.
By what amount can HEAT

ISLANDS elevate temperatures in Heat islands impact what
urban area? LEED category(s)?
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What STRATEGIES are What generally defines OPEN

employed to reduce the SPACE area?
HEAT-ISLANDS?
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What does the BUILDING

FOOTPRINT consists of? What is light pollution?
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Sustainable Sites (SS) and Energy

and Atmosphere (EA). Heat islands
increase temperatures resulting in 10 degrees F or more
the need for more air conditioning
(and more energy to cool the air).

Strategies include using

materials with higher solar
reflectance properties in the
Local zoning requirements site design, provide shaded
areas, and reduce hardscape
surfaces and installing
vegetated roofs.
Waste light from building sites The area on a project site

that produces glare, is directed used by the building
upward to the sky, or is structure and defined by the
directed off the site. Waste light perimeter of the building
does not increase nighttime
safety, utility, or security and
plan.
needlessly consumes energy
What is a benefit of locating a What is a GREENFIELD site?

project near mass transit?
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True or False: LEED projects LEED Green Associate

traditional projects
What are examples of How is development density
IMPERVIOUS surfaces? calculated?
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What is the purpose of

locating a project in an area
What is a DIVERSE USE?
with DIVERSE USES?
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A site not previously developed

or graded that could support Reduced automobile use
open space, habitat, or which reduces automobile
agriculture. emissions.

By drawing a radius from Parking lots, roads,

the project building sidewalks, and plazas.
A distinct, officially recognized business, Locating near diverse

nonprofit, civic, religious, or governmental
organization, or dwelling units (residential uses promotes walking
use) or offices (commercial office use). It which helps to limit urban
has a stationary postal address and is
publicly available. It does not include sprawl and reduces
automated facilities such as ATMs, automobile use.
vending machines, and touchscreens.
How are diverse uses identified for What helps reduce the heat
a project? island effect?
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True or False:
LEED GreenLEED
Associate projects LEED Green Associate

What is PEDESTRIAN What is a PREVIOUSLY

ACCESS? DEVELOPED site?
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What is the DEVELOPMENT What is an ALTERNATIVE

FOOTPRINT? fuel vehicle?
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Light colored paving materials

Green roofs
Cool roofs By walking distance from the
Shading project site.
Underground parking

A site that was previously Pedestrian access allows

built on, has been graded, pedestrians to walk between
or contained a parking lot, areas without interference
roadway, or other structure. from walls, highways or
other barriers.
An alternative fueled vehicle The development footprint

uses low-polluting, nongasoline includes all areas of a site
fuels such as electricity, affected by the development or
hydrogen, propane, project site activity. Include
compressed natural gas, liquid hardscapes, parking lots,
natural gas, methanol, and access roads, non-building
ethanol facilities and the building itself.
What are some examples of mass What is OPEN SPACE?

transit?
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What is a FULL-TIME How can potable water use be

EQUIVALENT (FTE)? reduced for irrigation?
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What two measurements are What are transient

used to calculate a percent occupants?
reduction in water use?
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Open space is undeveloped

land, but it differs from Busses
greenfield sites since open Ferries
space could have been Rail lines
developed in the past and Shuttles
restored to an undeveloped
state.

- Use graywater or Is a regular building occupant who spends

rainwater for watering 40 hours per week in the project building.
Part-time or overtime occupants have FTE
- Use drip irrigation values based on their hours per week
divided by 40. Multiple shifts are included
- Install native and adaptive or excluded depending on the intent and
requirements of the credit.
plants

Building visitors and other

part-time or occasional
occupants, such as A baseline design case and
students, volunteers, an installed design case
visitors, etc.
What variables are used in What does runoff

determining FTE calculations? contribute to?
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HARVESTED RAINWATER
can be substituted for what What does a VEGETATED
types of potable water use? roof consist of?
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What does GPF stand for? What is a bioswale?
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Soil erosion and sedimentation The type of building occupant (full-

of local waterways time, part-time, transient) and the
hours worked per week.

Vegetation, growing Landscape irrigation, fire
medium, filter fabric, suppression, toilet and
drainage, and a waterproof urinal flushing, and
membrane. custodial uses.
Landscape elements designed

to remove silt and pollution Gallons per Flush. The unit
from surface runoff water. They
of measurement for flush
consist of a swaled drainage
course with gently sloped sides
fixtures (urinals, water
and filled with vegetation, closets)
compost and/or riprap.
What is sedimentation?
What does GPM stand for?
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What is graywater? What codes define

GRAYWATER?
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Irrigation impacts what

LEED categories? What is BLACKWATER?
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When runoff deposits sediment

into water ways, leading to a Gallons per Minute. The unit of
decline in water quality by measurement for flow fixtures
blocking sunlight. (faucets, showers)

Local and state authorities

along with the Uniform Copyright GBES - intended for use by purchaser
Plumbing Code (UPC) in its Domestic wastewater
Appendix G, Gray Water composed of wash water
Systems for Single-Family from kitchen, bathroom, and
Dwellings & The International laundry sinks, tubs, and
Plumbing Code (IPC) Appendix washers. (EPA)
C, Gray Water Recycling
Systems.

Blackwater is wastewater from

toilets and urinals. Wastewater
from kitchen sinks (perhaps
differentiated by the use of a
garbage disposal),showers, or Water Efficiency (WE) and Energy
bathtubs is considered and Atmosphere (EA)
blackwater under some state or
local codes.

Water saving fixtures can

What is XERISCAPING? reduce water use in a project by
what amount?
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Associate projects
What is DRIP IRRIGATION? What are NOXIOUS weeds?

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What are NATIVE or What are considered

INDIGENOUS plants? INVASIVE plants?
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Xeriscaping is a landscaping
method that makes routine
irrigation unnecessary. It uses
drought-adaptive and low-water
30% (USGBC) plants as well as soil amendments
such as compost and mulches to
reduce evaporation.
Drip irrigation delivers water at low

They are an invasive pressure through buried mains and
species of plants that inhibit sub mains. Water is distributed to
the cultivation and growth the soil through a network of
perforated tubes or emitters. Drip
of local native or adaptive irrigation is much more efficient
plants. than traditional sprinkler systems.
They are nonnative to the

ecosystem and likely to cause harm
They are adapted to a given area
once introduced. These species are
during a defined time period and are
characteristically adaptable and
not invasive. In North America, the
aggressive, have a high
term often refers to plants growing
reproductive capacity, and tend to
in a region prior to the time of
overrun the ecosystems they enter.
settlement by people of European
Collectively, they are among the
descent.
greatest threats to biodiversity and
ecosystem stability.

What is the definition of What are some uses of

POTABLE WATER? NONPOTABLE water?
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True or False:
LEED GreenLEED
Associate projects

What are some of the benefits What would you use the
of VEGETATED ROOFS? EPAct of 1992 for?
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Reductions in potable water

consumption from water
What are some examples of
efficient landscaping are
GRAYWATER?
attributed to what
techniques?
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Potable water meets or exceeds

EPA's drinking water quality
Landscape irrigation, toilet and standards and is approved for
urinal flushing, custodial human consumption by the state
purposes, and building or local authorities having
systems. jurisdiction; it may be supplied
from wells or municipal water
systems.


They reduce the heat island
effect, retain runoff,
Measuring the baseline case insulating benefits,
water use for the Water aesthetically pleasing, have
Efficiency credits. longer life and less
maintenance than
conventional roofs.

Choosing the correct plant species, Water from bathtubs, showers,

density and microclimate factors, bathroom wash basins, water
Irrigation efficiency, use of captured from clothes-washer and laundry
rainwater, use of recycled wastewater, tubs. Some cases allow for
use of water treated and conveyed by kitchen sinks depending on state
a public agency specifically for and local authorities.
nonpotable uses or absolutely no
potable water use.
What factors are used to

establish a baseline water
demand when calculating for
What are some ways to capture water efficiency in
rainwater to prevent runoff? commercial or residential
applications?
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In LEED Water Efficiency
addresses what
PROCESS WATER is used
environmental concerns for
for what purpose?
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Low-flow fixtures use less

What is an AQUIFER? water than what standard?
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Calculations are based on estimated Rain gardens

occupancy usage and must include only
Green roofs
the following fixtures and fixture fittings
(as applicable to the project scope): Retention pond
water closets, urinals, lavatory faucets, Bioretention pond
showers, kitchen sink faucets and pre-
rinse spray valves.
Process water is used for Monitoring water consumption

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industrial processes such Copyright GBES - intended for use by purchaser
indoor potable water
as cooling towers, boilers, consumption, reduction in
and chillers. The term can water consumption to save
also refer to water used in energy and improve
operational processes, such environmental well-being, and
as dishwashing, clothes practice water-efficient
washing, and ice making. landscaping.
An aquifer is an
underground water-bearing
EPAct 1992 rock formation or group of
formations that supply
groundwater, wells, or
springs.

What are some examples of

applications that use Wastewater from toilets is
AUTOMATIC FIXTURE what type of water?
SENSORS?
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Wastewater from kitchen

sinks is what type of water? Wastewater from faucets is
what type of water?
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What type of water is

What is WaterSense? DRINKING WATER?
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Blackwater Lavatories, sinks, water closets,

and urinals.

Graywater
Blackwater

WaterSense is a partnership
program sponsored the
Potable water EPA, helping consumers
identify water-efficient
products and programs.

What are native plants? What are adaptive plants?
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True or False:
LEED GreenLEED
Associate projects

What is irrigation efficiency? What is the baseline flow rate

of a faucet?
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What is the baseline flush What is the baseline flush

rate of a urinal? rate of a water closet?
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Plants that are adapted to local

Non-native plants that use less conditions and are easier to grow
and maintain. This low-
fertilizer, pesticides and water
maintenance approach means
in a given landscape. These
savings in both time and money.
plants have adapted to the local Once established, native plants
climate and are not considered better withstand variations in local
invasive plants or weeds. climate such as droughts and
freezes.
The percentage
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irrigation equipment that is actually
used for irrigation and does not
2.2 gpm (gallons per evaporate, blow away, or fall on
minute) hardscape. (USGBC). Drip irrigation
has an efficiency of 90% while
conventional overhead sprinklers have
an efficiency of 65%.
1.6 gpf (gallons per flush) 1.0 gpf (gallons per flush)
What type of water is

How much water does a waterless
municipally supplied
urinal consume?
reclaimed/recycled water?
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The water use of a faucet is The water use of a water

measured using what units? closet is measured in what
units?
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What are the benefits of What is RECLAIMED

NATIVE PLANTS? WATER?
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Nonpotable water None


Gallons per Flush (gpf)

Gallons per Minute (gpm)

Reclaimed water is water Native plants require less

that has been treated for water, less maintenance,
reuse. less fertilizer, and are
more pest resistant.
What types of plants does LEED

recommended using in landscape What is HARVESTED
design? RAINWATER?
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LEED GreenLEED

What are some types of flow What are some types of

fixtures? flushing fixtures?
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What is the baseline water What standard is used to

demand of a building? determine the baseline
water demand of a
building?
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Harvested rainwater is
rainwater that has been
collected for uses such as Native and/or adaptive plants.
landscaping irrigation, toilet
flushing, or other non-potable
water uses.
Urinal Showerhead
Water closet (toilet) Spray valve
Lavatory faucet

The estimated occupant

usage of a project's fixtures
EPAct 1992
and fittings using the flush
and flow rates from the
EPAct 1992 standard

What standard defines green

power? What are CFCs?
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True or False:
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What are alternatives to using
What types of systems use refrigeration with CFCs?
CFCs?
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What does GWP stand for? What is lighting power

density?
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CFC stands for Chlorofluorocarbon.

This is a type of hydrocarbon that is
used in most types of refrigerants for
building applications such as Green-e
centrifugal chillers, refrigerators, and
humidifiers. Most applications were
installed prior to ozone concerns
Natural ventilation -Centrifugal chillers

Refrigerants with lower -Refrigerators
ODP and GWP -Humidifiers
Natural refrigerants
Installed lighting power Global Warming Potential

per unit area

What category does lighting

power density have the greatest What does ODP stand for?
impact on?
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What is a BASELINE What is natural ventilation?

BUILDING
PERFORMANCE?
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What is daylighting? What standard applies to

natural ventilation?
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Energy and Atmosphere (EA).

Ozone Depletion Potential Reducing the lighting power
density reduces energy use.
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minimum standards of design.

Natural ventilation uses the A building's baseline building
natural forces of wind and performance would be the
buoyancy to deliver fresh annual energy cost for a
air into buildings. building designed to those
minimum standards.
The practice of placing

windows, or other
transparent media, and
reflective surfaces so that,
ASHRAE 62.1 during the day, natural
light provides effective
internal illumination.
What type of impact do HFCs have

on the ozone layer? What is free energy?
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What is Global Warming What is Ozone Depletion

Potential as it relates to Potential as it relates to
refrigerants? refrigerants?
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Is it better for a refrigerant What is fundamental

to have a higher or lower refrigerant management?
ODP and GWP?
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Energy with low/no-cost that

comes as a result of building
design. Examples include HFCs have a low impact on the
daylighting, natural ventilation, ozone layer but many HFCs have
or onsite solar power/wind a high Global Warming Potential
energy. (GWP)
A measurement of how much

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effect the given refrigerant will
molecule of the refrigerant to have on global warming in
destroy the Ozone Layer. The relation to carbon dioxide, where
less the value of the ODP the CO2 has a GWP of 1. This is
better the refrigerant is for the usually measured over a 100-year
period. In this case the lower the
ozone layer and therefore the
value of GWP the better the
environment. refrigerator

A minimum threshold for

refrigerant selection. LEED
requires zero use of CFC-
Lower
based refrigerants in new
based building HVAC&R
systems.
What variables measure a

What is the intent of fundamental
refrigerants impact on the
refrigeration management?
environment?
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What does air pollution What is a LIFE-CYCLE

cause? COST Analysis?
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What types of power have

What is NET METERING? the greatest negative
environmental impact?
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Global Warming Potential To reduce stratospheric ozone

(GWP) and Ozone Depletion de Pletion
Potential (ODP)

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calculates expected future
Harm or discomfort to
operating, maintenance, and
replacement costs of designs humans or other living
and features used to assist organisms, or damages the
owners in developing a realistic natural environment into the
design and budget estimate. atmosphere.

Coal It promotes water runoff

instead of infiltration into
Gas the subsurface. This term is
Hydropower mostly used when
Other fossil fuels discussing hardscape
surfaces.
An energy simulation model or

What do GREENHOUSE GASES energy model is generated for
(GHG) do to the environment? what reasons?
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What is the main ASHRAE

standard in which HVAC What is an REC?
systems must adhere?
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Where can RECs be

What is radon? purchased?
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Energy simulation model or energy Absorb and emit radiation at specific

models are used to provide the wavelengths within the spectrum of
anticipated energy consumption of a thermal infrared radiation emitted by
building and permits a comparison of Earth's surface, clouds, and the
energy performance, given proposed atmosphere itself. Increased
energy efficiency measures, with the concentrations of greenhouse gases
baseline. are a root cause of global climate
change.


Also known as Green tags, Renewable Energy
Credits, or Tradable Renewable Certificates
(TRCs), are tradable environmental commodities in
the United States which represent proof that 1
megawatt-hour (MWh) of electricity was generated ASHRAE 90.1
from an eligible renewable energy resource.

RECs can be purchased A cancer-causing

anywhere and are not radioactive gas. Radon in
bound by geography. They the ground, groundwater,
differ from actual electricity or building materials
which must be purchased enters working and living
from a local provider. spaces and disintegrates
into its decay products.
What is the purpose of an REC? Green power must be certified

by which organization for
LEED credit?
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When would natural
ventilation be a good design
What are the environmental
choice?
benefits of an REC?
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What do CFCs do to the What is ENERGY

environment? EFFICIENCY?
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A Renewable Energy
Certificate is a tradable
commodity that allows
Green-e organizations without access
to off-site green power to
purchase the benefits of green
power.

Avoid the carbon dioxide
(CO2) emissions associated
with conventional electricity In cooler climates where
use temperatures are lower.
Reduce some types of air
pollution

Energy efficiency is the use of technology

that requires less energy to perform the
same function as a conventional item. A
compact fluorescent light bulb that uses CFCs destroy the ozone
less energy than an incandescent bulb to
produce the same amount of light is an layer.
example of energy efficiency. The decision
to replace an incandescent light bulb with
a compact fluorescent is an example of
energy conservation.
What is GLOBAL WARMING? What are GREENHOUSE

GASES?
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What is the most effective What is embodied energy?

way to optimize energy
efficiency?
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What is POSTCONSUMER Reusing an existing

RECYCLED content? building can help earn
credit in what category?
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A gas, such as carbon dioxide Global Warming refers to

or methane, which contributes climate change that causes
to potential climate change. an increase in the average
temperature of the lower
atmosphere of the Earth.
The available energy that was used

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Embodied energy is an accounting The most effective way to
methodology which aims to find the optimize energy efficiency is
sum total of the energy necessary by utilizing an integrative,
for an entire product lifecycle. This
whole-building approach.
lifecycle includes raw material
extraction, transport, manufacture,
assembly, installation, disassembly,
deconstruction and/or
decomposition.
It is the percentage of material in a product that

was consumer waste. The recycled material
Materials & Resources was generated by household, commercial,
industrial, or institutional end-users and can no
longer be used for its intended purpose.
Postconsumer is just that, material recycled after
being used by the consumer.
What is PRE-CONSUMER What is RECYCLED content?

recycled content?
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What is COMMINGLED What is waste diversion?

RECYCLING?
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What are examples of PRE- What are examples of

CONSUMER recycled content that is excluded
content? from PRE-CONSUMER
recycled content
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Pre-consumer recycled content is

Recycled content is the formerly known as postindustrial
content, is a percentage of material
proportion, by mass, of pre-
in a product that is recycled from
consumer or postconsumer
manufacturing waste. Since the
recycled material in a product material is never sold to the
(ISO 14021). consumer, it is pre-consumer
material.
Reducing the amount of Commingled recycling accepts a

recyclable material being wide range
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thrown away and ultimately This allows materials to be collected
in one bin, or location, prior to being
wasted by disposal in the sent to a recycling facility for
landfill. Many materials have separation. This type of recycling
uses or resources that can takes up less space and has better
be recaptured through participation from occupants.
recycling.
Planer shavings, sawdust,

Rework, regrind, or scrap bagasse, walnut shells,
materials capable of being culls, trimmed materials,
reclaimed within the same over issue publications, and
process that generated obsolete inventories.
them.
What are examples of RECYCLED CONTENT is

POSTCONSUMER recycled defined in accordance with
content? what document?
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What type of recycled

content is a material that What is the FSC?
contains recycled
newspaper?
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What is the environmental

benefit of using SALVAGED What is a VOC?
MATERIALS?
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Construction and demolition debris,

materials collected through
ISO 14021 - International
recycling programs, discarded
Organization of Standards products, (e.g., furniture, cabinetry,
document. decking), and landscaping waste
(e.g., leaves, grass clippings, tree
trimmings)

The Forest Stewardship Council

(FSC), established in 1933 in
response to those concerns
over global deforestation. It is
an international non-profit, Post-consumer recycled
multi-stakeholder organization content
that promotes responsible
management of the world's
forests.
Volatile Organic Compounds can

negative health effects when
inhaled. Many VOCs are human- It reduces the demand for
made chemicals that are used and
produced in the manufacture of
virgin materials.
paints, pharmaceuticals, and
refrigerants.
What materials are not allowed

What is CONSTRUCTION & to be included in the
DEMOLITION debris? calculations for Construction
Waste Management?
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What is a CONSTRUCTION
WASTE MANAGEMENT
What are low VOC products?
PLAN?
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At a minimum what
materials must a
commercial LEED project
What is REUSE? include in a recycling
program?
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-Excavated materials such as Construction and demolition debris are

waste building materials, dredging
dirt and trees materials, tree stumps, and rubble
-Hazardous materials such as resulting from construction, remodeling,
asbestos and lead covered repair, and demolition of homes,
commercial buildings and other
debris
structures and pavements.
.
A construction
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management plan are
Materials that have less off- administrative and procedural
gassing, resulting in requirements for salvaging,
improved indoor air quality. recycling and disposing of non-
hazardous demolition and
construction waste.

Paper
Corrugated cardboard A strategy to use existing
Glass materials in a similar or
Plastics different capacity that
Metals
allows for the preservation
of natural resources.

What are SALVAGED What are the benefits of

MATERIALS? regional materials?
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What CREDIT CATEGORY
What is source reduction? addresses RECYCLED
CONTENT?
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How many points can be How many Regional Priority

earned in the Innovation credits can a LEED project
category? earn?
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Construction materials recovered

from building sites and reused on
Reduced transportation costs different building sites in the same
Support of local resources or a different capacity. Examples
can include flooring, brick, beams,
and doors.


The practice
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manufacturing, purchasing,
or using materials (such as
Materials & Resources products and packaging) in
ways that reduce the
amount or toxicity of trash
created

4 points 6 points

How many LEED AP's are

Who is the PROJECT
required to participate in a project
ADMINISTRATOR?
to earn one Innovation point?
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How does the integrative,

How can Innovation credit whole building approach
be earned? apply to LEED projects?
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What is a DESIGN What does the HOLISTIC

CHARRETTE? approach pertain to?
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The individual who initially At least 1 principal participant

registers the project will be of the project team must be a
identified by GBCI as the LEED AP with specialty
Project Administrator appropriate for the project to
earn an Innovation credit.
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way to optimize energy
Doubling the credit
efficiency, by collaboration
among all team members, requirements, using a new
beginning at the start of a strategy that is quantifiable,
project , this method is or achieving Pilot Credits
necessary in designing building
systems.
The holistic approach evaluates The design charrette is an intense,

collaborative design activity that allows
energy consumption early in project teams (i.e. project owner, architect,
the design process to allow and design team)to develop and plan
project strategies, evaluate and identify
project teams to target methods both financial and environmental impacts,
to improve the building energy and reveal any opportunistic synergies for
consumption and performance. the entire project.

What LEED credit category

awards points for achieving How do you earn Innovation
exemplary performance? credit for exemplary
performance?
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What are the requirements How are Innovation points for
for submitting an Innovation innovative performance
credit for an Innovative measured?
strategy?
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What is the maximum During the site selection

number of points a project process what members
can earn under the Regional should a project team
Credit category? include?
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To earn Innovation credit for exemplary

performance, teams must meet the
performance level defined by the next
step in the threshold progression on Innovation
credits that allow exemplary
performance. For example if one point
can be earned on a credit by reducing
waste
Identify the following in writing:

The intent
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innovation credit. The
proposed requirement for
The submitted credit must compliance. The proposed
be quantifiable. submittals to demonstrate
compliance. The design
approach (strategies) used to
meet the requirements.
Landscape architects,
ecologists, environmental
engineers, and civil engineers, Under the Regional Priority
as well as local professionals credit 4 points is the
who can provide site specific maximum any project may
expertise earn.

Who fills out the LEED

What are CREDIT SYNERGIES?
Scorecard?
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Who can become a LEED What do LEED APs with

AP with specialty? specialty do on a project?
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What is EXEMPLARY What do you call a

PERFORMANCE? collaborative, facilitated
approach to project design
and execution?
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Credit synergies happen when

credits work together and
The project team does during have an increased benefit,
the LEED charrette. many times at a lower
combined cost.

Help streamline the

Anyone that passes
certification process
GBCI's exams.

Performance above and beyond

the LEED requirements is rated
"exemplary." An example of
exemplary performance is to meet
An integrative process. the next step in a series of
requirements.
True or False: Can a product

What is a LEED CHARRETTE?
can earn Innovation credit?
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What should a project vision

Who uses LEED? include?
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What is the pre-design What steps occur in the

phase of an environmentally pre-design phase?
responsive design?
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A collaborative session in
which building stakeholders
FALSE and building experts address
design and project issues early
in the building process.
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sustainable principles and an Architects, real estate professionals,
integrative process. A vision facility managers, engineers, interior
statement should support and designers, landscape architects,
enforce the sustainability goals construction managers, lenders and
government officials all use LEED to
throughout the project.
help transform the built environment
to sustainability.
-Develop Green Vision

-Establish Project Goals and An added step to the design
-Green Design Criteria process which includes the
-Set Priorities
-Develop Building Program integrative process,
-Establish Budget defining environmental
-Assemble Green Team
-Develop Partnering Strategies design guidelines, and
-Develop Project Schedule assembling an integrative
-Review Laws and Standards
-Conduct Researh project team.
Can prerequisites earn

What can increasing the ventilation
exemplary performance?
in a building have a negative
impact on?
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LEED GreenLEED
True or False:
At what stage is it critical to LOCAL ZONING requirements
incorporate green building are defined as:
practices into the project?
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Which has precedent in a What codes must LEED

project, LEED requirements projects follow?
or local codes?
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Increasing ventilation in a
No. Only credits can earn
building increases energy use
exemplary performance.
(EA).

Local government
regulations imposed to
promote orderly Pre-design
development of private
lands and prevent land-use
conflicts.
Projects should review

relevant and applicable
Local codes must be
laws, codes, local
followed first.
ordinances, statutes, and
industry-related standards.
What must be checked to determine

What are local ordinances?
what type of building can be built
on a piece of land?
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What additional green
What are local codes? building project and building
construction budget are
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there?
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What is systems thinking? What is the integrative

process used for?
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A law usually found in a Local zoning requirements

municipal code.
State and local jurisdictions
may develop their own
regulations or adopt
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-Life cycle cost analysis codes based on national model
-Green Building experts codes. State and local codes
-Contingency plans for are typically based on national
additional Research model codes published by the
International Code Council
(ICC)

To support high- An understanding of the

performance, cost-effective built environment as a
project outcomes through series of relationships in
an early analysis of the which all parts influence
interrelationships among many other parts.
systems.
What are the benefits of using an What is REACH used for?

integrative process?
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True or False:
LEED GreenLEED

What are examples of high- What are types of sensitive
priority designation areas? habitat?
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What is WaterSense used What are the diverse use

for in LEED? categories?
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REACH is the Regulation on

Registration, Evaluation, Authorization
and Restriction of Chemicals. REACH
Higher performing buildings,
requires all companies manufacturing or healthier buildings, and cost
importing chemical substances into the savings over the long term.
European Union in quantities of one ton
or more per year to register these
-Prime farmland -Historic districts

-Floodplains -Priority designation sites

(Federal Empowerment
-Endangered habitat Zones, EPA National
-Water bodies Priorities List, etc.)
-Wetlands -Brownfield
-Food retail
-Community-serving retail To identify fixtures in a
-Services LEED building are both
-Civic and community facilities water efficient and high
-Community anchor uses performing.
What is the waste reduction What is WASTE-TO-ENERGY?

hierarchy?
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What is USGBCs mission? What is USGBCs vision?
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What are the roles of GBCI? What other green building

rating systems are
available?
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The process of generating -Source reduction

energy in the form of electricity -Reuse
and/or heat from the -Recycling
incineration of waste. -Waste-to-energy
Buildings and communities will ToCopyright GBES - intended for use by purchaser
transform the way buildings
regenerate and sustain the and communities are designed,
health and vitality of all life built and operated, enabling an
within a generation. environmentally and socially
responsible, healthy, and
prosperous environment that
improves the quality of life.

-Green Globes Administration of the LEED

exams
-BREEAM -Overseeing LEED Credential
-Green Star Maintenance
-IgCC -Third-party technical reviews
of registered LEED projects

What are I-codes?

What is the IgCC?
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What are LEED

Interpretations? What are LEED Addenda?
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What is a HERs Index? What is a BUG rating?
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The International Codes, or I-Codes, published

by ICC, provide minimum safeguards for people
The IgCC provides the building industry at home, at school, and in the workplace. The I-
with language that both broadens and Codes are a complete set of comprehensive,
strengthens building codes in a way that coordinated building safety and fire prevention
will accelerate the construction of high codes. Building codes benefit public safety and
support the industry's need for one set of codes
performance green buildings.
without regional limitations.

LEED Interpretations, just like Project

USGBC publishes Credit Interpretation Rulings (Project
clarifications (also called CIRs), are official answers to technical
inquiries about implementing LEED on a
addenda) to address errors project. They help people understand how
in the LEED rating systems their projects can meet LEED
requirements. They also define or expand
and reference guides. upon existing content to provide clarity.
The backlight-uplight glare The Home Energy Rating

method is used in LEED v4 for System (HERS) Index is a
light pollution reduction. By standard by which a home's
selecting exterior lighting with energy efficiency is
specific BUG ratings the project
team can easily reduce light
measured.
pollution.
How is water performance

measurement accomplished? What is DENSITY?
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True or False:
LEED GreenLEED

What is BUILDABLE LAND? What is a FLOOR-AREA-

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RATIO (FAR)?
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What is an OCCUPIED What are examples of

SPACE? UNOCCUPIED SPACES?
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A measure of the total building floor area

or dwelling units on a parcel of land
relative to the buildable land of that
parcel. Units for measuring density may Metering and submetering.
differ according to credit requirements.
Does not include structured parking.

The portion of the site where
construction can occur,
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voluntarily set
land use, exclusive of parking, aside and not constructed on.
measured as the total When used in density
nonresidential building floor calculations, buildable land
area divided by the total excludes public rights-of-way
buildable land area available for and land excluded from
nonresidential structures. development by codified law.

Mechanical rooms, stairwells, Enclosed areas intended for

closets human activities.
What is an REGULARLY
OCCUPIED SPACE? What is COMMISSIONING?
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What is RETRO- What is DEMAND
COMMISSIONING? RESPONSE?
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What is a DEMAND What is a CARBON

RESPONSE EVENT? OFFSET?
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The process of verifying and

documenting that a building and all of its
systems and assemblies are planned, Conference rooms, guest rooms,
designed, installed, tested, operated, and kitchens, hotel lobby
maintained to meet the owner's project
requirements.
A change in electricity use by demand-

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commissioning process
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side resources from their normal can be performed on existing
consumption patterns in response to buildings to identify and
changes in the price of electricity or to
incentive payments designed to induce
recognize system
lower electricity use at times of high improvements that make the
wholesale market prices or when system building more suitable for
reliability is jeopardized
current use.
A specific period of time when the

A unit of carbon dioxide utility or independent service
equivalent that is reduced, operator calls for a change in the
avoided, or sequestered to pattern or level of use in grid-
compensate for emissions based electricity from its program
occurring elsewhere participants. Also known as a
curtailment event.
What environmental benefit

What standard qualifies carbon does purchasing off-site
offsets? renewable energy (Green
Power) have?
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True or False:
LEED GreenLEED

How is a building's energy What does a building
efficiency benchmarked? automation system do?
GBES 91
GBES 321 GBES 322

What does designing for What are environmental

flexibility mean? externalities?
GBES 323
GBES 324
Green-e Climate certified (or

Emissions reductions equivalent)

Collect data about a

building's systems and EPA's ENERGY STAR
track it over time Portfolio Manager
Transactions in which one or

more parties to the transaction
are not compensated and may Designing for flexibility is a concept
have little choice in the that considers the future use of the
transaction. Air pollution, for building and how it may be modified
example, is a visible externality while at the same time reducing
waste and reducing the need for
of manufacturing, the cost of new materials.
which is generally paid by
others.
What is an ENVIRONMENTAL
PRODUCT DECLARATION
What is product transparency?
(EPD)?
GBES 325
GBES 326
What is a HEALTH What is a CORPORATE

PRODUCT DECLARATION SUSTAINABILITY REPORT
(HPD)? (CSR)?
GBES 327 GBES 328
What are three examples of

What are USGBC's seven
building product
guiding principles?
disclosure?
GBES 329 GBES 330

Each building disclosure and

optimization credit in the Materials
The Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) is and Resources section has two
a standardized way of quantifying the options for compliance. The first
environmental impact of a product or system. It option is for material transparency -
is a statement that the item meets the
environmental requirements of ISO what's in the material or how was it
14021?1999, ISO 14025?2006 and EN obtained. There are third party
15804, or certifications use
Health Product Declaration

(HPDs) provide a full disclosure
A CSR report is a third-party verified Copyright
of GBES - intendedchemicals
the potential for use by purchaser
of
report that includes information on concern in products by
how the manufacturer extracts or comparing product ingredients
sources materials
to a wide variety of "hazard"
lists published by government
authorities and scientific
associations.
Promote the triple bottom line

Raw materials sourcing
-Establish leadership
-Reconcile humanity with nature -Material ingredients
-Foster social equity -Environmental product
-Maintain integrity disclosure
-Be inclusive
-Exhibit transparency
What does the LEED Volume When would the Campus

Program help with? Program be used?
GBES 331 GBES 332


How many LEED What LEED rating system has
adaptations are there? recertification?
GBES 91
GBES 334
GBES 333
How often must LEED O+M

projects recertify? What are the LEED impact
categories?
GBES 335 GBES 336

The Campus Program is used

when there are less than
twenty-five projects and they Cost-effective LEED
are non-uniform in size. The certification on a volume scale
projects do not have to be
adjacent.
LEED O+M. Recertification

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initial O+M certification.

Projects must recertify
within five years of the 21
previous O+M certification
and are eligible to recertify
as often as every 12
months.

-Reverse Contribution to Global Climate

Change
-Enhance Individual Human Health and
Well-Being Every 5 years.
-Protect and Restore Water Resources
-Protect, Enhance and Restore
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
-Promote Sustainable and Regenerative
Material Resources

What are three important factors of What are the point values of a
the LEED Green Building Rating LEED credit based on?
System?
GBES 337
GBES 338

What are the three types of In what 3 ways are LEED

LEED improvements made Interpretations different than
on a regular
GBES
basis? 91
Project CIRs?
GBES 339 GBES 340

What are 3 benefits of LEED What LEED developments

Interpretations? address specific space
types and international
requirements?
GBES 341
GBES 342
The ability to mitigate the -Voluntary

environmental harms of a -Consensus-based
building and to promote
-Market-driven
beneficial effects.


-Precedent-setting
-Published online -Errata and addenda
-Subject to consensus- -Adaptations
based review -Next version of LEED

-Can be applied to multiple

projects
LEED Rating System -Part of the LEED
adaptations conversation
-Reviewed by USGBC
committees
What type of project

What is the LEED Pilot Credit requires a master site for
Library? registration?
GBES 343 GBES 344
True or False:
LEED GreenLEED

What is an LPE? What is a closed system?

GBES 91
GBES 345 GBES 346
What is an open system? What is a negative feedback

loop?
GBES 347 GBES 348

Allows credits to be refined

through LEED project evaluations
Campus before they complete the balloting
process for introduction into
LEED
.
A closed system is a system

with a closed loop, and is Licensed Professional
thought of as more sustainable. Exemption
Copyright (LPE)
GBES - intended ispurchaser
for use by an
For example, plants growing in optional credit documentation
a field, grow, produce oxygen, path in which professionals
take in water, then die and can submit license
decay which helps plants grow. information and a declaration
Closed systems can be linked of compliance in lieu of a
so one system uses number of otherwise required
submittals.
An open system is a system that

constantly takes in items from outside
the system, uses them and then
A negative feedback loop is releases them as waste. This system
a system where the output has no feedback loop. Think of a normal
home where groceries, products, or
may signal the system to water come into the home, are used and
stop changing. then released as waste water or
garbage.
What are the phases of the LEED

How does integrative design
integrative process?
differ from the conventional
building process?
GBES 349 GBES 350


What is at the core of the What does the ISO 14000

integrative process? standard do?
GBES 91
GBES 351 GBES 352

What does the ISO 14000 What is infill

standard do? development?
GBES 354
GBES 353
-Discovery
-Design and Construction
The integrative process is (Implementation)
iterative. -Occupancy, Operations, and
Performance Feedback

Assess environmental
performance of products
and services and provide Collaborative team
guidance on improving their members
environmental performance
Infill development occurs within

established urban areas where
the site or area either is a ENERGY STAR is specific
vacant place between other to energy performance and
developments or has previously can be used to compare
been used for another urban building performance.
purpose.
What document assists with

determining recommended What is a SITE ASSESSMENT?
parking?
GBES 355 GBES 356
What team member creates

Construction activity an erosion and
pollution prevention should sedimentation control (ESC)
address what environmental plan for construction activity
protection measures? pollution prevention?
GBES 357 GBES 358
What does protecting and How should projects

restoring habitat help with? reduce runoff?
GBES 359 GBES 360

An evaluation of an area's above ground and

subsurface characteristics, including its
structures, geology, and hydrology. Site
assessments typically help determine whether
contamination has occurred and the extent and
ITE Transportation Planning
concentration of any release of pollutants. Handbook
Remediation decisions rely on information
generated during site assessments.

-Soil erosion
Civil engineer -Waterway sedimentation
-Airborne dust

Replicating the natural Promoting biodiversity

hydrology and water
balance of the site
What products can have a

What are ways to manage runoff? WaterSense label?
GBES 361
GBES 362

What is the Owner's Project

What is energy use intensity Requirements (OPR)
measured in? document?
GBES 364
GBES 363

What does tracking

What is BUS RAPID
building-level energy use
TRANSIT?
help with?
GBES 365
GBES 366
-Toilets
-Private lavatory faucets Low-impact development (LID)
-Showerheads and green infrastructure

A written document that
details the ideas, concepts, Energy consumed per unit
and criteria determined by of floor space
the owner to be important to
the success of the project.
BRT is an enhanced bus system

Identifying additional that operates on exclusive bus
lanes or other transit rights-of-way.
energy savings over time. The system is designed to combine
the flexibility of buses with the
efficiency of rail.
What do the credits in the

What is ADAPTIVE REUSE? Materials and Resources (MR)
category focus on?
GBES 368
GBES 367

What is the purpose of a What is EXTENDED
life-cycle assessment? PRODUCER
RESPONSIBILITY?
GBES 91
GBES 369 GBES 370
What is a FLUSH-OUT? What is IPM?
GBES 371 GBES 372

Minimizing the embodied The practice of redesigning and

impacts associated with the using a structure for a use that is
significantly different from the
entire life-cycle of building
building's original use.
materials
Measures undertaken by the

maker of a product to accept its Copyright GBES - intended for use by purchaser
own and sometimes other
manufacturers' products as
postconsumer waste at the end To understand the trade-
of the products' useful life. offs of material selection
Producers recover and recycle and energy performance
the materials for use in new
products of the same type
Integrated Pest Management - a

method of pest management A flush-out runs the mechanical
that protects human health and systems with 100% outside air to
the surrounding environment remove contaminants. Flush-outs
and improves economic returns are usually done after construction
through the most effective, is complete and prior occupants
least-risk option. moving in.
What does daylighting help

What is a common issue with
reduce?
daylighting?
GBES 373 GBES 374


What are ways to provide

What are the benefits of
occupants thermal comfort?
good acoustics?
GBES 91
GBES 376
GBES 375
What is a negative
environmental externality of What are the benefits of
locating a project in an area LEED-certified buildings?
does not have diverse uses
and is not densely
developed?
GBES 377 GBES 378

The need for artificial lighting. Glare.


-Operable windows -Increased learning in
schools
-Individual thermal comfort
controls -Increased privacy in
healthcare
-Controls for shared spaces
-Increased employee
productivity/satisfaction

-Lower operating costs and increased

asset value
-Reduced waste sent to landfills
-Energy and water conservation Increased air pollution
-More healthful and productive
environments for occupants
-Reductions in greenhouse gas emissions
-Qualification for tax rebates, zoning allow

What is the most impactful way What are the long term effects
of climate change?
that a project can help to reverse
contribution to climate change?
GBES 379
GBES 380
What are ALTERNATIVE What are examples of

COMPLIANCE PATHS STRUCTURAL INCENTIVES
(ACPs)? for green building?
GBES 381 GBES 382
What are examples of What are examples of NON-

FINANCIAL INCENTIVES for FINANCIAL INCENTIVES for
green building? green building?
GBES 383 GBES 384

-Higher sea levels

-Higher temperatures Reducing fossil-fuel based
-Longer droughts energy consumption

Alternative Compliance Paths,
or ACPs, allow international
-Expedited review / permitting projects to identify equivalent
process means of demonstrating
compliance to the credit
-Density and height bonuses requirements. For example,
where an equivalent country's
reference standard exists, an
ACP can allow for the use of

-Tax credits
-Fee reductions / waivers
-Technical assistance -Grants
-Revolving loan funds (low-
-Marketing assistance interest loans)
What is a REGULAR BUILDING Name the different types of

regular building occupants
OCCUPANT?
GBES 385 GBES 386

True or False:
LEED GreenLEED
Associate projects

What is a VISITOR? Name the different type of

building visitors.
GBES 91
GBES 387 GBES 388
What is the most important What is a COMMISSIONING

phase of the integrative AUTHORITY (CxA)
process?
GBES 389 GBES 390

-Employees
-Staff
-Volunteers
-Residents
-Primary and secondary school Habitual users of a building.
students
-Hotel guests
-Inpatients

-Retail customers
-Outpatients
Visitors (also called
-Volunteers 'transients') intermittently
-Higher-education students use a LEED building.

The individual designated to organize,

lead, and review the completion of
commissioning process activities. The
CxA facilitates communication among the
owner, designer, and contractor to ensure Discovery
that complex systems are installed and
function in accordance with the owners
project requirements.

What is LOW IMPACT What are examples of

DEVELOPMENT (LID)? OCCUPANT CONTROLS?
GBES 391 GBES 392
True or False:
LEED GreenLEED

What is a RIDE SHARE? What is a REGULATED

LOAD?
GBES 91
GBES 393 GBES 394
What is PROCESS
ENERGY? What is VISION GLAZING?
GBES 395 GBES 396

An approach to managing
An occupant controls is a system or rainwater runoff that emphasizes
switch that a person in the space can on-site natural features to protect
directly access and use. Examples water quality, by replicating the
include a task light, an open switch, and natural land cover hydrologic
blinds. A temperature sensor, photo
regime of watersheds, and
sensor, or centrally controlled system is
not occupant controlled.
addressing runoff close to its
source.
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transit service in whichforindividuals
use by purchaser
travel
together in a passenger car or small van that
Any building end use that seats at least four people. It can include human-
has either a mandatory or a powered conveyances, which must
accommodate at least two people. It must include
prescriptive requirement in an enclosed passenger seating area, fixed route
ASHRAE Standard 90.1 service, fixed fare structure, regular operation,
and the ability to pick up multiple riders.
The glass portion of an exterior

window that permits views to Power resources consumed in
the exterior or interior. Vision support of a manufacturing,
glazing must allow a clear industrial, or commercial process
image of the exterior and must other than conditioning spaces
not be obstructed by frits, and maintaining comfort and
amenities for building occupants
fibers, patterned glazing, or
of a building. It may include
added tints that distort color refrigeration equipment, cooking
balance. and food
What standards can be used to

identify green cleaning products? What does increasing
ventilation in a building
help with?
GBES 397
GBES 398
LEED expensive
are more Green Associate than LEED Green Associate
Where should smoking be
prohibited around a
What does the type of
building?
entryway system selected
GBES 91
for a building impact?
GBES 399 GBES 400

Environmental Choice and

Reduced absenteeism Green Seal
Indoor air quality. Near entrances, operable

windows, and air intakes.

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What is ASHRAE 55 What is ASHRAE 90.1

What ASHRAE standards

1. Must be in a permanent location

ASHRAE 90.1 relates to ASHRAE 55 is related to the

What ASHRAE standards would What standard addresses the

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What LEED category would What LEED category would

LEED Green Associate

What LEED categories

ASHRAE 62.1 is related to

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Energy and Atmosphere Indoor Environmental

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Minimum Efficiency Reporting Materials & Resources (MR)

What is the EPAct of 1992? What is ISO 14021?

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What is IESNA? What is Green-e?

What does an ENERGY What does Certification by

The Energy Policy Act of 1992

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established to promote green Illuminating Engineering Society

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LEED Green Associate LEED Green Associate

Certification means forest The ENERGY STAR rating is a

What are CREDIT

CIRs can be used for what For multiple building

LEED Green Associate LEED Green Associate

What is LEED Online? What are some of the

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LEED Green Associate

Through LEED Online, project teams

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What is the purpose of a LEED Where can the LEED Score

LEED Green Associate LEED Green Associate

What are the LEED Reference What do the LEED Reference

Who can access LEED What general

The LEED Scorecard is to

LEED Green Associate LEED Green Associate

Strategies, case studies, and

LEED Green Associate LEED Green Associate

What does a Why do projects need to meet

How many CERTIFICATION What are the different

Identifies the main sustainability goal or

LEED Green Associate LEED Green Associate

A prerequisite represents the

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LEED Green Associate LEED Green Associate

How are CIRs submitted? What are the amount of

LEED Green Associate LEED Green Associate

What is environmental What is considered a

LEED Green Associate LEED Green Associate

What is a construction hard What are some examples of

How well the credit address Credit interpretation requests

LEED Green Associate LEED Green Associate

Construction hard cost are

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By far the largest portion of the

What is meant by LIFE-CYCLE

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