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Adapted plant

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Vegetation that is not native to a particular region but that has characteristics that allow it to live in the area

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Basis of Design (BOD)

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The information necessary to accomplish the owner’s project requirements, including system descriptions, indoor environmental quality criteria, design assumptions, and references to applicable codes, standards, regulations, and guidelines

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Blowdown

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The removal of makeup water from a cooling tower or evaporative condenser recirculation system to reduce concentrations of dissolved solids

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Brownfield

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Real property or the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of which may be complicated by the presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant

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Chain of Custody (CoC)

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A procedure that tracks a product from the point of harvest or extraction to its end use, including all successive stages of processing, transformation, manufacturing, and distribution

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Clean waste

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Nonhazardous materials left over from construction and demolition. Excludes lead and asbestos

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Commissioning (Cx)

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The process of verifying and documenting that a building and all of its systems and assemblies are planned, designed, installed, tested, operated, and maintained to meet the owner’s project requirements

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Commissioning Authority (CxA)

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The individual designated to organize, lead, and review the completion of commissioning process activities.

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Densely occupied space

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An area with a design occupant density of 25 people or more per 1,000 square feet

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Development footprint

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The total land area of a project site covered by buildings, streets, parking areas, and other typically impermeable surfaces constructed as part of the project

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Employment center

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A nonresidential area of at least 5 acres with a job density of at least 50 employees per net acre

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Floor-Area Ratio (FAR)

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Density of nonresidential land use, exclusive of parking: total building floor area / total buildable land area available for nonresidential structures

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Green power

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A subset of renewable energy composed of grid-based electricity produced from renewable energy sources

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Green vehicles

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Vehicles achieving a minimum green score of 45 on the ACEEE annual vehicle rating guide

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Greenfield

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Area that has not been graded, compacted, cleared or disturbed and that supports (or could suppot) open space, habitat, or natural hydrology

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Hardscape

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The inanimate elements of the building landscaping. It includes pavement, roadways, stonewalls, wood and synthetic decking, concrete paths and sidewalks, and concrete, brick and tile patios.

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Industrial process water

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Any water discharged from a factory setting. Before this water can be used for irrigation, its quality needs to be checked. Saline or corrosive water should not be used for irrigation.

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Infill site

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A site where at least 75% of the land area, exclusive of rights-of-way, within 1/2 mile of the project boundary is previously developed.

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Interstitial space

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An intermediate space located between floors with a walk-on deck, often used to run the majority of the utility distribution and terminal equipment, thus permitting convenient installation, maintenance, and future modifications

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Landscape water requirement (LWR)

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The amount of water that the site landscape area(s) requires for the site’s peak watering month

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Life-cycle inventory

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A database that defines the environmental effects (inputs and outputs) for each step in a material’s or assembly’s life cycle. The database is specific to countries and regions within countries.

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Low-impact development

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An approach to managing rainwater runoff that emphasizes on-site natural features to protect water quality, by replicating the natural land cover hydrologic regime of watersheds, and addressing runoff close to its source.

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Makeup water

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Water that is fed into a cooling tower system or evaporative condenser to replace water lost through evaporation, drift, bleed-off, or other causes

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Master plan boundary

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The limits of a site master plan. The master plan boundary includes the project area and may include all associated buildings and sites outside of the LEED project boundary.

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Occupant control

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A system or sqitch that a person in the space can directly access and use. e.g. task light, open switch, blinds. Does not include sensor-operated controls.

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Owner’s Project Requirements (OPR)

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A written document that details the ideas, concepts, and criteria determined by the owner to be important to the success of the project.

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Peak watering month

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The month with the greatest deficit between evapotranspiration and rainfall.

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Power utilization effectiveness (PUE)

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A measure of how efficiently a data center uses its power; specifically, how much power is used by computing equipment rather than for cooling and other overhead.

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Process energy

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Power resources consumed in support of a manufacturing, industrial, or commercial process other than conditioning spaces and maintaining comfort and amenities for building occupants (ASHRAE)

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Public water supply (PWS)

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To be considered public, system must have at least 15 service connections or regularly serve at least 25 individuals

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Renewable energy credit (REC)

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A tradable commodity representing proof that a unit of electricity was generated from a renewable resource.

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Scope 1 emissions

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Direct GHG emissions from sources owned or controlled by the entity, such as emissions from fossil fuels burned on site

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Scope 2 emissions

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Indirect GHG emissions associated with the generation of purchased electricity, heating/cooling, or steam off site, through a utility provider for the entity’s consumption

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Simple box energy modeling analysis

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A simple base-case energy analysis that informs the team about the building’s likely distribution of energy consumption and is used to evaluate potential project energy strategies, AKA building-massing model energy analysis

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Site assessment

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An evaluation of an area’s aboveground and subsurface characteristics, including its structures, geoglogy, and hydrology

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Site master plan

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An overall design or development concept for the project and associated (or potentially associated) buildings and sites.

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Soft space

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An area whose functions can be easily changed

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Solar reflectance (SR)

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The fraction of solar energy that is reflected by a surface on a scale of 0 to 1. Cool Roof Rating Council Standard (CRRC-1)

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Solar reflectance index (SRI)

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A measure of the constructed surface’s ability to stay cool in the sun by reflecting solar radiation and emitting thermal radiation. 0-100. Cool Roof Rating Council Standard (CRRC-1)

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Spatial daylight autonomy (sDA)

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A metric describing annual sufficiency of ambient daylight levels in interior environments. Defined as the percentage of an analysis area that meets a minimum daylight illuminance level for a specified fraction of the operating hours per year

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Thermal emittance

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The ratio of the radiant heat flux emitted by a specimen to that emitted by a blackbody radiator at the same temperature

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Upstream equipment

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A heating or cooling system or control associated with the district energy system (DES) but not part of the thermal connection or interface with the DES. Includes the thermal energy conversion plant and all associated T&D equipment

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Xeriscaping

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Landscaping that does not require routine irrigation

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Zero lot line project

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A plot whose building footprint typically aligns or nearly aligns with the site limits

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