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General / Rating System Flashcards

1
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State IWB’s Focus

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advance the health and wellness of building components in order to help the occupants lead healthier lives

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Name IWB’s three Project types

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  1. New and Existing Building
  2. New and Existing Interiors
  3. Core and Shell
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Name the Pilot Programs offered in v1

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  1. Multifamily Residential
  2. Retail
  3. Restaurants
  4. Commercial Kitchen
  5. Educational Facilities
  6. Communities
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State IWB’s Mission Statement

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”. . . to improve human health and well-being through the built environment.”

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How many total Features are offered?

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100 + 5 Innovation Features

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What are the two kinds of Features offered?

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  1. Precondition

2. Optimization

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How often must the building be recertified?

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3 years

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Name the 7 Concepts

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  1. Air
  2. Water
  3. Nourishment
  4. Light
  5. Fitness
  6. Comfort
  7. Mind
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9
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Explain the score card

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Rating between 1-10
1-4: not certified (did not meet all preconditions)
5-6: silver
7-8: Gold
9-10: Platinum
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Describe the Air Concept

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Goal: Achieve optimal indoor air quality to promote more healthful living
How: remove airborne contaminates, pollution prevention, air purification
Features: 29

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Describe the Water Concept

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Goal: optimize the quality of available water available to building occupants and promote its accessibility
How: ensure water is safe, clean, easily accessible through filtration, treatment, and strategic placement
Features: 8

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Describe the Nourishment Cocept

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Goal: encourage healthier eating habits and food culture that lead to better health and well-being
How: promote healthier eatin habits through increases availability and visibility; limit availability of bad foods; encourage practice of more responsible eating
Features: 15

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Describe the Light Concept

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Goal: minimize disruptions to the circadian rhythms of building occupants, enhance productivity, improve physical energy and mood levels
How: promote strategies for better illumination by providing criteria for window performance and design, light output and control, and appropriate visual acuity
Features: 11

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Describe the Fitness Concept

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Goal: encourage the integration of physical activity into the everyday life of building occupants
How: promote strategies by utilizing building design, accommodating fitness regimens, providing the space and opportunity for an active lifestyle
Features: 8

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Describe the Comfort Concept

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Goal: Design an indoor environment that is distraction free, productive, and comfortable for building occupants
How: promote strategies for meeting accessibility design standards, providing comfortable furnishings and workstations, controlling acoustics and thermal conditions, reducing known sources of discomfort.
Features: 12

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Describe the Mind Concept

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Goal: support the mental and emotional health and well being of building occupants
How: provide occupants w/ regular feedback and knowledge about their indoor environment through design elements, relaxation spaces, health treatments and benefits
Features: 17

17
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Describe the Innovation Features:

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Goal: promote the continuous advancement of well and allow project teams to achieve higher certification levels
Features: 5

18
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What human body systems does IWB consider?

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  1. Cardiovascular
  2. Digestive
  3. Endocrine
  4. Immune
  5. Integumentary
  6. Muscular
  7. Nervous
  8. Reproductive
  9. Respiratory
  10. Skeletal
  11. Urinary
19
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Explain how IWB benefits the Cariovascular System

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mitigating stress, encouraging healthy nutrition, providing opportunities for physical activity, and eliminating environmental health hazards in the air and water

20
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Explain how IWB benefits the Digestive System

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mitigating stress and encouraging healthy nutrition

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Explain how IWB benefis the Endocrine system

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mitigating stress, encouraging healthy nutrition, and eliminating environmental health hazards in the air and water

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Explain how IWB benefits the Immune System

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eliminating environmental health hazards in the air and water, mitigating stress, encouraging healthy nutrition, and providing opportunities for physical activity

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Explain how IWB benefits the Integumentary System

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encouraging healthy nutrition and eliminating environmental health hazards

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Explain how IWB benefits the Muscular System

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providing opportunities for physical activity and supporting proper ergonomics

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Explain how IWB benefits the Nervous System

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mitigating stress, encouraging healthy nutrition, providing opportunities for physical activity, eliminating environmental health hazards in the air and water, promoting quality sleep

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Explain how IWB benefits the Reproductive System

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Encouraging healthy nutrition, providing opportunities for physical activity, eliminating environmental health hazards in the air and water.

27
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Explain how IWB benefits the Respiratory System

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eliminating airborne environmental health hazards and providing opportunities for physical activity to strengthen the lungs

28
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Explain how IWB benefits the Skeletal System

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encouraging healthy nutrition, providing opportunities for physical activity, and supporting proper ergonomics.

29
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Explain how IWB benefits the urinary System

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mitigating stress and eliminating waterborne environmental health hazards

30
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Define Triple Bottom Line

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The concept of sustainability that includes the financial, environmental, and social bottom lines of a project

31
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Define the Financial TBL

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defines the economic well-being of a company, how the project is financed, and the ROI of the project, which could be positive or negative

32
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Define the Environmental TBL

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the project’s impact on land, air, water, plants, and animals as well as the regional and global environmental concerns

33
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Define the Social TBL

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impact of the construction of the building on the public as well as the occupants healthiness, happiness, and productivity THIS IS WELL’S PRIMARY FOCUS

34
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Define the Process of WELL certification

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Five Steps:
Registration
Documentation Review,
Performance Verification
Certification
Recertification
35
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What is an Alternative Adherence Path (AAP)

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The alternate route that a team can take in achieving a specific feature.

36
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Define a curative action plan

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the document that outlines how a team will employ to address unmet criteria as identified in the WELL report

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