Fundamentals
Describing buildings to reduce environmental impact while supporting human health
Green building design
Emissions from building energy use
What is operation carbon
Heat transfer through solids
What is conduction
What is solar insolation
Standard air temperature measurement
What is dry bulb temperature
Environmental, Social, and Economic framework for sustainability
On site fuel combustion emissions
What is Scope 1
Resistance to heat flow
What is the R-Value
Processes that prevents all solar radiation from reaching earth
Reflection, absorption, and scattering
Percent of moisture in the air relative to capacity
What is relative humidity?
Misleading environmental claims used in marketing
What is greenwashing
A metric to compare energy consumption across building types normalized to a unit of measurement
what is EUI
Measure of heat transfer rate through an assembly
Metric describing solar heat through windows
What is solar heat gain coefficient (SHGC)
What is a psychrometric chart
The idea that sustainability must be perfect or not attempted
What is all or nothing thinking
Unit that standardizes greenhouse gas impacts
What is CO2 e
Heat loss through framing or structural members
What is thermal bridging
Method used to size HVAC systems
what is a load calculation
Four key building science control layers
What are heat, air flow, moisture, and vapor
Carbon from materials and construction
What is embodied carbon
The three step hierarch for reducing building energy
The energy pyramid
Test used to measure if a building is properly sealed
What is the pen test
Simulation of building energy performance
What is energy modeling
What conditions are needed for mold growth?
What are moisture, food source, temperature, and time