Glossary

Question 1

Buildings account for

Answer 1

38% of carbon monoxide

Question 2

Scope 1 Energy
Scope 2 Energy
Scope 3 Energy

Answer 2

Owned or controlled sources
Purchased energy
That are not owned or directly controlled

Question 3

40/60 Rule

Answer 3

The method used to choose the appropriate rating system for the project if the project seems to fit under multiple rating systems.

Question 4

Active daylighting

Answer 4

collects the sunlight using mechanical devices but may not work well on cloudy days

Question 5

Albedo

Answer 5

between 0 and 1. 1 represents white surfaces that reflect all the solar radiation.

Question 6

Alternative Compliance Paths (ACPs)

Answer 6

enable international projects to earn the appropriate prerequisite/credits by allowing them to meet international standards or their local standards instead of US based standards.

Question 7

Alternative fuel

Answer 7

hydrogen, electricity, propane, compressed natural gas, liquid natural gas, methanol, or ethanol

Question 8

Basis of Design (BoD)

Answer 8

describes the information necessary to accomplish the owner’s project requirements, which includes system requirements, design criteria, standards, and guidelines developed by the architect/engineer

Question 9

BUG rating

Answer 9

a luminaire classification system that classifies a luminaire according to backlight, uplight, and glare

Question 10

Building automation system (BAS)

Answer 10

a computer-based monitoring system which can monitor, coordinate and control every individual building system

Question 11

Carbon neutrality

Answer 11

to emit no more carbon emissions than can realistically be offset

Question 12

Chain of Custody (CoC)

Answer 12

Procedure of tracking a product from extraction/harvesting to its distribution. An example may be the FSC certification, which provides chain-of-custody certification for wood-based products.

Question 13

Closed system

Answer 13

System that does not produce any waste product at the end by circulating the same medium.

Question 14

Commissioning (Cx)

Answer 14

is a systematic investigation by skilled personnel that compares building performance with the project goals, design specifications, and, most importantly, the owner’s project requirements (OPR).

Question 15

Corporate Sustainability Reports (CSR)

Answer 15

provides information about the manufacturer or raw-material supplier of a product that has been verified to employ sustainable principles during the creation of their products.

Question 16

Points

Answer 16

Certified 40-49
Silver 50-59
Gold 60-79
Platinum 80+

Question 17

Minimum Program required

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1. permanent location on existing land
2. must use reasonable leed boundaries (the gross floor area of the leed project should not be less than 2% of the gross land area within the leed project boundary)
3. must comply with minimum project size
   1,000 sf for new construction and maintenance, 250 sf for ID+C.

Question 18

Project Administrator

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Must be assigned in the project registration phase

Question 19

Simple box energy modeling

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enables the team to see the approximate energy use of the building and to evaluate strategies on how to reduce the energy use.

Question 20

FAR floor area ratio

Answer 20

calculated by dividing the total square feet of a building by the total square feet of the lot of the building

Question 21

zero-lot-line projects

Answer 21

buildings that are built on the entire lot

Question 22

ACEEE

Answer 22

Green Score for cars above 45 to qualify