Transportation
Site Selection
Site Design and Management 1
Site Design and Management 2
Stormwater Management
100
The amount of connection between a site and the surrounding community, measured by proximity of the site to homes, schools, parks, stores, restaurants, medical facilities, and other services and amenities.
What is Community Connectivity?
100
The area on a project site that is used by the building structure, defined by the perimeter of the building plan. Parking lots, landscapes, and other nonbuilding facilities are not included.
What is Building Footprint?
100
The percentage of the surface area of a paving material that is open and allows moisture to pass through the material and soak into the ground below.
What is Perviousness?
100
A plant adapted to a given area during a defined time period; in North America, the term most often refers to plants growing prior to the time of settlement by people of European descent.They are considered low maintenance and not invasive.
What is Native (or Indigenous) Plants?
100
Water from precipitation that flows over surfaces into sewer systems or receiving water bodies. All precipitation that leaves project site boundaries on the surface is considered _______.
What is Stormwater Runoff?
200
A vehicle that uses low-polluting, nongasoline fuels, such as electricity, hydrogen, propane or compressed natural gas, liquid natural gas, methanol, and ethanol. In LEED, efficient gas-electric hybrid vehicles are included in this group.
What is Alternative Fuel Vehicle?
200
The total square footage of all buildings within a particular area, measured in square feet per acre of units per acre.
What is Development Density? (también hay Building Density)
200
The reflectivity of a surface, measured from 0 (black) to 1 (white).
What is Albedo?
200
A measure of the amount of illumination falling on a surface. It is equal to one lumen per square foot.
What is Footcandle?
200
Plant material from trees, grasses, or crops that can be converted to heat energy to produce electricity.
What is Biomass?
300
The precipitation of dilute solutions of strong mineral acids, formed by the mixing in the atmosphere of various industrial pollutants (primarily sulfur dioxide ad nitrogen oxides) with naturally occurring oxygen and water vapor.
What is Acid Rain?
300
Land that is likely to be flooded by a storm of a given size.
What is Floodplain?
300
The resistance of a material to penetration by a liquid.
What is Imperviousness?
300
Nonnative, introduced plants that reliably grow well in a given habitat with minimal winter protection, pest control, fertilization, or irrigation once their root systems are established. Adapted plants are considered low maintenance and not invasive.
What is Adapted Plants?
300
An excavated area that detains stormwater and slow runoff but is dry between rain events.
What is Dry Pond (Detention Basin)?
400
A measure of transportation demand that estimates the travel miles associated with a project, most often for single-passenger cars.
What is Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT)?
400
Previously undeveloped land with soil suitable for cultivation.
What is Prime Farmland?
400
A measure of how well a material rejects solar heat; the index ranges from 0 (least reflective) to 100 (most reflective).
What is Solar Reflectivity Index (SRI)?
400
A landscaping method that mekas routine irrigation unnecessary by using drought-adaptable and low-water plants, as well as soil amendments such as compost and mulches to reduce evaporation.
What is Xeriscaping?
400
A stormwater management feature consisting of an excavated depression and vegetation that collect and infiltrate runoff and reduce peak discharge rates.
What is Rain Garden?
500
An indicator of neighborhood density, calculated as the number of centerline miles per square mile. Centerline miles are the length of a road down its center.
What is Street Grid Density? (a community with high street grid density and narrow, interconnected streets is more likely to be pedestrian friendly than one with a low street grid density and wide streets)
500
Previously used or developed land that may be contaminated with hazardous waste or pollution.
What is Brownfield?
500
The absorption of heat by hardscapes, such as dark, nonreflective pavement and buildings, and its radiation to surrounding areas.
What is Heat Island Effect?
500
The number of types of spaces or housing types per acre.
What is Diversity of Uses or Housing Types?
500
A stormwater control feature that uses a combination of an engineered basin, soils, and vegetation to slow and detain stormwater, increase groundwater recharge, and reduce peak stormwater runoff.
What is Bioswale?
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