LEED Green Exam -1
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| What is the average water savings in a commercial building when implementing water efficiency goals? | show 🗑
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| show | The ratio of energy radiated by a particular material to energy radiated by a black body at the same temperature
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| show | ENERGY STAR is specific to energy performance and can be used to compare building performance.
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| show | Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) by the California Air Resources Board
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| ASHRAE 55-2004 is used for what? & what category in Leed is it used? | show 🗑
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| show | 24% Average savings in energy use intensities to be 24% lower when comparing green building to conventional buildings.
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| What term refers to the investigation and valuation of the environmental impacts of a given product or service caused or necessitated by its existence? | show 🗑
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| What is the difference between HFCs and HCFCs? | show 🗑
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| What type of fixtures use the least amount of water? | show 🗑
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| What are the goals of the LEED 2009 Minimum Program Requirements? | show 🗑
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| What is the average housing density of a high density development area? | show 🗑
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| What defines the open space of a site area if there is no local zoning? | show 🗑
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| Open space must be? | show 🗑
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| show | 2.2 gallons per minute (gpm) per the EPAct of 1992.
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| show | Economic prosperity, environmental stewardship and social responsibility. Also known as 'people, planet, profit'
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| show | It is the investigation and valuation of the environmental impacts of a given product or service caused or necessitated by its existence.
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| What are heat islands? | show 🗑
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| Greenfields are what? and what credit? | show 🗑
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| show | 6 Regional Priority credits 4 points can be earned. So you can only earn a maximum of 4 points.
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| show | By the materials' proportion of cost
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| Solar reflectance is also called? | show 🗑
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| What best defines durability? | show 🗑
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| show | Green score of 40 or more from the ACEEE annual vehicle rating guide.
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| show | The environmental, social, and other positive attributes of power generated by renewable resources
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| show | If any construction waste materials to be recycled will be comingled or separated & describe where construction and demolition debris is going to go.
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| Where should a project team go for updates and errata for the LEED for New Construction rating system? | show 🗑
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| show | ASHRAE 90.1-2007 is used to measure building energy performance.
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| show | Purchasing products with less packaging. Source reduction is the EPA's top-ranked strategy for reducing waste.
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| show | ASHRAE 90.1-2007 establishes minimum requirements for the energy efficient design of buildings
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| show | EPAct 1992 is used for calculating the baseline water use of a project in the Water Efficiency category.
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| What is the most commonly used energy code in the United States and includes information such as R-values for insulation? | show 🗑
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| At a minimum, a project team must successfully do which of the following to obtain LEED certification? | show 🗑
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| show | Solar Reflectance Index (SRI)
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| show | Center for Resource Solutions. The organization that maintains Green-e is the Center for Resource Solutions.
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| show | Air quality issues from construction or renovation
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| show | ASHRAE 90.1-2007 Exterior lighting can impact nighttime visibility and nocturnal life. Light pollution reduction is achieved by not exceeding the lighting power densities that are defined in ASHRAE 90.1-2007.
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| show | identifies the high-performance building systems that will save money over the life of a project
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| By the EPAct 1992 a Commercial (toilet) should use how much water? | show 🗑
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| show | Commercial urinals: 1.0 gpf
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| show | Addressing green measures or strategies that are more important to a climate or region
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| show | Space heating consumes 38% of a building's energy use, on average.
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| What percent of water chillers in existing buildings still use CFCs? | show 🗑
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| show | Amonia
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| What is NOT a natural refrigerant? | show 🗑
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| show | A building program details the project's green building requirements. It includes the project's vision, the green building goals, and a general and room-by-room description of the project
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| What does the IPMVP Volume III provide information on? | show 🗑
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| show | 20% The Water Use Reduction prerequisite requires a 20% reduction of the design case compared to the baseline case.
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| show | A project must occupy at least 250 square feet (22 square meters) of gross floor area to earn LEED for Commercial Interiors certification.
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| What project team meeting is used to integrate green strategies across all aspects of the building design, drawing on the expertise of all participants? | show 🗑
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| show | Yes/Maybe/No The score card allows users to select credit achievement as Yes/Maybe/No
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| show | The open space must be in the LEED boundary. The LEED boundary is the portion of the project site submitted for LEED
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| What information can be entered in the LEED Score Card? | show 🗑
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| show | 40% Construction and demolition debris make up 40% of the solid waste stream in the United States. (USGBC)
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| show | Water efficiency (WE) category has the least number of points.
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| Reduced emissions are a benefit of purchasing? | show 🗑
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| show | 90% The importance of the Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) category is partly due to how much time people spend indoors.
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| Average housing density is defined as: | show 🗑
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| What best defines the project boundary? | show 🗑
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| What laws and guidelines are specifically relevant to LEED projects vs. typical construction? | show 🗑
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| show | Designing a smaller building footprint and maximizing the floor-area ratio
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| The number of occupants in a building would be used for what calculations? | show 🗑
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| show | LCA does not take into account economic performance while LCC does.
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| show | A green roof does not necessarily reduce water needs. In LEED green roofs help with reducing the heat island effect. They can also increase the energy efficiency of a building by providing insulation.
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| Gray or white concrete generally have a _________ reflectance and a ________ SRI value. | show 🗑
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| Can a project team has excluded a section of land in order to meet the requirements of one of the LEED credits? | show 🗑
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| How much area must the owner or tenant must occupy to use LEED for New Construction? | show 🗑
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| Can a CIR be submited for a Prerequisite? | show 🗑
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| Which LEED rating system has pre-certification? | show 🗑
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| show | Visit the USGBC website Regional Priority credits are listed in an Excel spreadsheet and available from USGBC's website
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| What is the root cause of global climate change? | show 🗑
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| show | 2% of the gross land area (LEED project boundary).
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| show | helps the project team decide what specific design criteria will be met. Used At each step during the project - design, construction, etc,.
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| A contractor purchased some carpet containing VOCs. What LEED category would this material negatively impact? | show 🗑
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| What standard sets the baseline for commercial plumbing fixtures when establishing a water use reduction strategy? | show 🗑
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| What is the primary difference between LEED for Existing Buildings: Operations & Maintenance and the other LEED rating systems? | show 🗑
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| Green Seal score is used for what product? | show 🗑
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| Green Label is used for what product? | show 🗑
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| show | Center for Resource Solutions
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| show | •If a rating system is appropriate for 40% or less of a LEED project then that rating system should not be used. •If a particular rating system is appropriate for 60% or more of a LEED project building or space, then that rating system should be used.
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| show | Green Power is not generated on site.
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| What is the gross floor area minimum for Commercial Interior projects. | show 🗑
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| For a LEED for Core & Shell project what is the minimum amount of gross floor area? | show 🗑
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| Green Seal is used for what procuct? | show 🗑
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| What residence has at least 15% more efficiency than the 2004 International Residential Code? | show 🗑
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| A density radius calculation is used in what credit? | show 🗑
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| show | 30% Landscape irrigation consumes 30% of potable water in the U.S. each day on average. (USGBC)
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| How is lighting power density determined? | show 🗑
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| What term also means site area? | show 🗑
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| LEED credit forms must be signed by which person? | show 🗑
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| show | HCs have a lower global warming potential (GWP) than HCFCs. HCs are environmentally benign to the atmosphere while HCFCs are not
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| show | On company letterhead. A company could use the logo in their letterhead for marketing purposes. This is why USGBC created the logo guidelines and why the issue is addressed in the logo guidelines.
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| Which of the following are LEED strategies to reduce single occupant automobile transportation to the project site? | show 🗑
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| show | Emittance and solar reflectance are combined to determine a material's SRI value
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| How are the sections in the LEED Scorecard grouped? | show 🗑
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| What organization publishes lighting design and illumination standards? | show 🗑
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| show | Best practices for verifying the energy performance of a new building
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| show | Typical physical occupancy. Building has to be attempted until typical occupancy use is met. I.E. hotel or schools typical number of students or renters.
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| What is not covered under the LEED for Core and Shell rating system? | show 🗑
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| show | From a whole building perspective over a building's life cycle
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| show | The LEED boundary is the portion of the project site submitted for LEED certification. (USGBC)
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| show | Yes/Maybe/No The score card allows users to select credit achievement as Yes/Maybe/No
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| What does 'LEED Certified' indicate? | show 🗑
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| show | LEED for Schools or LEED for New Construction
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| What best defines the project boundary? | show 🗑
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| show | Total area within the legal property boundaries of the site; it encompasses all areas of the site, including constructed and nonconstructed areas
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| What tool provides cost-effective streamlined certification processes for multiple building certifications? | show 🗑
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| show | The owner or tenant must occupy more than 50% of the building's leasable square footage to pursue LEED NC otherwise the project should pursue LEED for Core & Shell.
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| Who rules on CIRs? | show 🗑
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| LEED for Existing Buildings: Operations and Maintenance rating system have a ____ option. | show 🗑
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| When can appeals can be submitted? | show 🗑
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| show | Comply with environmental laws, Must be a permanent building, Must use a reasonable site boundary, Must comply with mim floor area, Comply with minimum occupancy, Must share energy + water data, Must comply with a minimum building area to site area ratio
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| show | LEED for Core and Shell
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| show | The triple bottom line - society, environment, and the economy - guides USGBC policies.
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| What are the goals of the LEED 2009 Minimum Program Requirements? | show 🗑
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| show | $2,000
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| ___________ of a LEED project must be certified under a single rating system. | show 🗑
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| show | There are no space requirements for LEED CI certification, other than the Minimum Program Requirements for any certification which requires: 'The LEED project must include a minimum of 250 square feet (22 square meters) of gross floor area.'
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| The property boundary and the LEED project boundary are what? | show 🗑
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| A building owner for a new 10-story office building will occupy the first and second floors. What LEED rating system would be most appropriate? | show 🗑
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| Each LEED category is listed, along with the credits and prerequisites for that category in a document called what? | show 🗑
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| show | LEED Score Card The project scorecard is available free of charge from USGBC's website.
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| show | Certification estimate
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| A project's scope of work will include systems upgrades, minor space-use changes, and minor facility alterations. What LEED rating system would be most appropriate? | show 🗑
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| show | Sustainable Sites Water Efficiency Energy and Atmosphere Materials and Resources Indoor Environmental Quality Innovation in Design (or Operations for O+M)
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| show | The prerequisites are the key criteria that define green building performance. - GBCI
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| show | The entire project scope The portion of project site submitted for LEED certification
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| What are excluded from the calculations in a density radius calculation? | show 🗑
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| show | Decreased building operating costs Reduced drawdown of potable water from water bodies and aquifers
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| show | Property area NOT Development footprint
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| show | Financing
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| show | The parking capacity can be reduced which would reduce the amount of money spent on the parking structure or area.
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| Is it true that RPCs are not new credits; they are 'bonus points'? | show 🗑
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| show | Size of the area to plant native vegetation
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| Why use commingled recycling? | show 🗑
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| What are differences between Hydrocarbons (HCs) and Hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs)? | show 🗑
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| What is true about integrative design? | show 🗑
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| show | Increasing greenhouse gas emissions
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| show | Increased energy consumption
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| Which of the following has the greatest indirect impact on global warming? | show 🗑
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| What project design strategy would minimize a project's water usage the most? | show 🗑
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| If an HVAC engineer is a LEED AP and also a principle participant on a project, what type of credit can be earned?? | show 🗑
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| show | Designing a smaller building footprint and maximizing the floor-area ratio
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| A project team discovers a new way to avoid the heat island effect. How does the LEED certification process reward this new concept? | show 🗑
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| show | Best practices for verifying the energy performance of a new building
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| show | Design Charrette: No later than the design development phase and preferably during schematic design, conduct at least one full-day integrated design workshop with the project team.
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| show | Within the LEED boundary
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| What should be included in a building program detailing the project's green building requirements? | show 🗑
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| show | Yes/Maybe/No
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| show | Certification estimate
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| show | Building density
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| A project that uses 100% green power can earn credit in what LEED categories? | show 🗑
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| the Clean Air Act does what? | show 🗑
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| show | CO2 - Carbon dioxide H2O - Water NH3 - Amonia HC - Hydrocarbons, such propane, butane, ethane, isobutene, and isopentane Air
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