Energy Efficient Buildings I
Energy Efficient Buildings II
Fire Protection I
Fire Protection II
Potpourri
100
A third-party certification system that rates the sustainability of buildings.
What is LEED?
100
Turning these off at night can save significant money in a building like our engineering building, with no hardware cost.
What are computers?
100
What is the main code for fire protection systems?
What is NFPA 13?
100
A common reason to use CPVC sprinkler piping over schedule 40 steel.
What is it is lighter?
100
North Plant Tour - It removes air from the water going to the boiler.
What is a deaerator?
200
A building that creates as much energy as it uses.
What is Net-Zero?
200
This strategy is used to take advantage of the winter sun to warm our structures.
What is passive solar?
200
Name one of the common listing agencies.
What is UL or FM Global?
200
This is the least common method of assembling sprinkler piping.
What is welded?
200
During a fire, we use this device to transfer to electrical power from normal power to emergency power.
What is an automatic transfer switch?
300
This category has more points in LEED than any other category.
What is Energy and Atmosphere?
300
This strategy uses chillers to make ice at night to provide cooling during the day.
What is ice thermal storage?
300
This entity can approve sprinkler systems.
Who is the Authority Having Jurisdiction?
300
This type of sprinkler pipe.
What is grooved?
300
This small pump is used in a fire protection system to maintain water pressure in the sprinkler system.
What is a jockey pump?
400
This strategy is used to turn down the building temperature at night to conserve energy.
What is temperature or night setback?
400
Uses CO2 to determine how much outside air to bring in.
What is demand control ventilation?
400
This is the highest/most stringent hazard classification for sprinkler systems.
What is Extra Hazard II?
400
We look at this to determine a sprinkler head's temperature rating.
The color of the liquid in the glass vial.
400
In order to use ice thermal storage for energy savings, your utility must have these.
What are different rates for day and night?
500
A ventilation system that replaces stale indoor air with fresh outdoor air while simultaneously recovering heat from the outgoing air to preheat the incoming fresh air.
What is a heat recovery ventilator?
500
Allowing occupants to control these will give the occupants a sense of increased comfort.
What are windows?
500
Sprinkler standards require that sprinkler piping is installed it can be this.
What is drained?
500
The name of this type of sprinkler head.
What is a sidewall head?
500
Which code tells you to install a fire pump?
What is no code?