LEED Projects
Levels of LEED expertise and experience
What are the LEED Green Associate, LEED AP (Accredited Professional), and LEED Fellow?
Number of rating system adaptions and credit categories
What are 21 adaptations and 8 categories?
Any man-made environment, which provides a structure for human activity
What is built environment?
Buildings account for approximately this amount of total energy used today
What is 40%?
People, Profit, Planet
What is the triple bottom line?
Allows project teams to submit and track their project through the LEED Certification process
What is LEED Online?
Handles all LEED products and services
What is USGBC?
Offers incentives for developers and owners to enhance environmental performance of their buildings (3 possible answers)
What are government agencies, utility companies, manufacturers?
How much more energy is expended commuting vs consumed by a building itself (percent)
What is 30%?
Water conservation technique reducing or eliminating potable water use/irrigation
What is xeriscaping?
Certifies multiple buildings that may not have the same design or function, located on the same site, under control of a single entity
What is the LEED Campus Program?
A third-party organization that provides independent oversight of professional credentialing and project certification programs related to green building
What is GBCI?
Built environment accounts for this amount of greenhouse gas emissions
What is more than 2/3?
The process of verifying and documenting that a building and all its systems and assemblies are planned, designed, installed, tested, operated, and maintained to meet the owner’s project requirements
What is commissioning?
When project teams view each part of the project in relationship to other parts of the project
What is systems thinking?
For organizations planning to certify a large number of new construction projects and existing buildings
What is the LEED Volume Program?
Names and photos of credentialed individuals are published here
What is the USGBC directory?
The assumption versus the reality of the costs of green buildings
What is there is no significant difference between the average cost of a LEED-certified building and other new construction in the same category?
Banned production of CFC refrigerants and began phasing out HCFC refrigerants - new buildings cannot use CFC based refrigerants and existing buildings must completely phase out CFC's before project is finished
What is the Montreal Protocol?
A database of credits tested for future versions of LEED and to earn credits in the Innovation (IN) category - located on the USGBC website
What is the Pilot Credit Library?
Rule that defines which rating system should be selected based on gross floor area of the LEED project building or space.
What is the 40/60 Rule?
How USGBC supports its mission (4 things)
What are education programs, advocacy, research, network of local chapters, LEED green building program?
A closed system that can use only as much water and energy as it can produce
What is a regenerative building?
High Ozone Depletion Potential (ODP), Low Global Warming Potential (GWP) vs Zero ODP, but High GWP
What is Refrigerant Tradeoff?
Person granted authority by owner to register project and accept certification agreement
What is Agent?