LEED Basics
The acronym LEED stands for this
What is Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design?
This organization administers LEED certification and performs third-party reviews
What is GBCI?
A project with 65 points earns this certification level.
What is Gold?
This workshop establishes green goals across disciplines
What is a charrette?
Developing on this type of site preserves open space
What is a previously developed site?
This term describes a project certified at the base level (e.g., 40–49 points)
What is LEED Certified?
USGBC’s vision includes regenerating this within a generation
What is the health and vitality of all life?
The minimum number of points for LEED certification
What is 40?
Systems thinking emphasizes relationships between these.
What are parts of the built environment?
This strategy reduces parking demand by encouraging carpools
What are transportation demand management strategies?
These are the key criteria that define green building performance (hint: mandatory!)
What are prerequisites?
Promoting the triple bottom line is part of USGBC’s ______.
What are guiding principles?
This term refers to a mandatory project characteristic
What is a prerequisite?
A facility manager’s expertise is critical during this project phase
What is the Discovery phase?
A brownfield site requires this before development
What is remediation?
This impact category has the greatest weight (35%) in LEED v4.
What is Reverse Contribution to Global Climate Change?
The official acronym for U.S. Green Building Council in a press release’s first reference
What is U.S. Green Building Council (not USGBC)?
Platinum certification requires this many points
What is 80+?
The primary benefit of the integrative process
What is cost-effective adoption of green strategies?
This credit category rewards projects near transit and diverse uses
What is Location and Transportation?
The seven LEED impact categories answer this overarching question
What should a LEED project accomplish?
This committee ensures LEED evolves via consensus
What is the LEED Steering Committee?
The four certification levels, in order
What are Certified, Silver, Gold, Platinum?
The three phases of the integrative process
What are Discovery, Design, and Occupancy?
The ITE Transportation Planning Handbook is used to calculate this
What is parking capacity?