Wide channels of earth planted with indigenous greenery and used to capture and filter large amounts of stormwater prior to infiltration or diversion to storm sewers.
What is a bioswale?
100
A system that circulates an antifreeze solution through copper lined pipes, capturing heat and warming water in a hot water tank through radiation.
What is indirect solar water heating?
100
A patented product that converts blackwater through biomechanical processes and measures its progress with a computer management system to ensure purification.
What is a Living Machine?
100
Employing the use of materials extracted and/or manufactured within 500 miles of a building site.
What is considered 'local materials'.
200
Upgrading systems and various building components while maintaining the historic character of a structure.
What is rehabilitation?
200
Managing the installation, calibration and performance of building systems associated with energy, to ensure that they function as originally intended.
What is building commissioning?
200
A system that captures gray and black water produced in a building, channels it through a series of cleansing processes and releases it back to the environment in a clean form.
What is an on-site, waste water treatment system?
200
Materials that are derived from the natural environment and produced repeatedly.
What are renewable materials?
300
These roofs require less maintenance, are shallower than 6", and capitalize on small indigenous plants.
What are Extensive Green Roofs?
300
Credits that may be purchaed to fund CO2 diminishing or preventing activities equal to the amount of CO2 created at a site.
What are Carbon Offsets?
300
Restroom sink aerators with 1gpm or less and an automatic sensor at restrooms and 2 gpm or less at kitchens. Showerheads with 1.75 gpm or less. Toilets with 1.28 gpf of HETs or less. Waterless urinals.
What are low flow fixtures?
300
Materials originally processed for one use and reused for another.
What are reclaimed materials?
400
A stormwater treatment area able to capture excess water during a high volume rain and divert it to a stormwater draing.
What is a retention pond?
400
Combined heat and power systems.
What are co-generation systems?
400
This process recycles potable water from non-contaminating fixtures like sinks and showers for use in landscape watering.
What is gray water reuse?
400
Materials comprised of other used materials.
What are recycled materials?
500
Buildings sized appropriately for their function and designed in a way to accommodate future growth.
What smart buildings?
500
When a second layer of material mounted off a building face is fully ventilated with openings around the perimeter and throughout the face.
What is a double skin facade?
500
Capturing rainwater on the roof of a structure, filtering the water of debris and other minor contaminates, and storing the water for distribution.
What is rainwater harvesting?
500
A method of design that extracts form and function from nature and applies it to the built environment.