Green Building Fundamentals
This framework balances environmental, social, and economic outcomes.
What is the Triple Bottom Line?
LEED seeks to reduce this transportation metric.
What is Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT)?
This organization develops and updates LEED.
What is USGBC?
This type of thinking examines how building systems affect one another
What is systems thinking?
LEED's first strategy for water conservation is this.
What is demand reduction?
This design philosophy seeks to restore ecosystems rather than simply reduce harm.
What is regenerative design?
These developments combine housing, jobs, and services in walkable areas.
What are mixed-use communities
This organization reviews documentation and awards certification.
What is GBCI?
This process involves revisiting decisions as new information becomes available.
What is iterative decision-making?
Water from sinks and showers is commonly classified as this.
What is graywater?
This economic model promotes reuse, repair, and waste reduction.
What is the circular economy?
This transportation option often provides one of the greatest reductions in VMT.
What is public transit?
These are mandatory requirements that every LEED project must meet.
What are prerequisites
This assessment examines greenhouse gas emissions.
What is a carbon assessment
This tool helps identify abnormal water consumption in building systems.
What is submetering?
This design approach evaluates environmental and economic impacts from raw material extraction through disposal.
What is life-cycle thinking (or Life-Cycle Assessment)
These programs encourage alternatives to driving alone.
What is Transportation Demand Management (TDM)
This collaborative planning meeting often occurs early in a project.
What is a charrette?
This assessment evaluates future climate risks and adaptation strategies.
What is a climate resilience assessment?
This relationship recognizes that energy is needed to treat, move, and heat water.
What is the Energy-Water Nexus?
This sustainability concept encourages meeting today's needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet theirs.
What is sustainable development
Before a contaminated industrial site can provide LEED-related environmental benefits, this process must occur.
What is brownfield remediation?
A project earns these extra points by addressing environmental issues important to its geographic region.
What are Regional Priority Credits?
When architects, engineers, contractors, owners, and facility managers work together from the beginning of a project to identify opportunities and avoid conflicts, they are using this LEED process.
What is the Integrative Process?
When evaluating water efficiency, LEED often normalizes usage using this occupant measurement.
What is Full-Time Equivalent (FTE)?