Green Design Flashcards
A material or substance which, when left exposed to nature, will decompose without harmful effects to the environment.
Biodegradable
A group of volatile gases believed to deplete the ozone layer of the Earth’s stratosphere. These gases have been discontinued from use as refrigerants and as blowing agents used to make foam.
Chlorofluorocarbons (CFC)
Philippine Clean Air Act of 1999
RA 8749
Products and systems that use less energy to perform as well or better than standard products. While some have higher up-front costs, energy-efficient products cost less to operate over their lifetime.
Energy Efficient
A term that refers to the degree to which a product may harm the environment, including the biosphere, soil, water and air.
Environmentally Friendly
An interdisciplinary field focused on the interplay between humans and their surroundings.
Environmental Psychology
Refers to wastewater coming from sinks, showers and laundry that can be collected and treated for some reuse, such as the flushing of toilets or watering of landscape.
Graywater
Byproducts of society with physical, chemical or infectious characteristics that pose hazards to the environment and human health when improperly handled.
Hazardous Waste
These buildings include design features that conserve water and energy; use space, materials and resources efficiently; minimize construction waste; and create healthy indoor environments.
High Performance Green Building
The supply and introduction of adequate air for ventilation and control of airborne contaminants, acceptable temperatures and relative humidity.
Indoor Air Quality
A term referring to all individuals involved in a project from very early in the design process, including the design professionals, the owner’s representatives and the general contractor and subcontractors.
Integrated Design Team
Is the process of shaping the experience of interior space, through the manipulation of spatial volume as well as surface treatment.
Interior Design
A person who is considered a professional in the field of interior design or one who designs interiors as part of their job.
Interior Designer
A title abbreviation for registered Interior Designer who has been issued a license by Professional Regulation Commission (PRC).
IDr
Building Rating System that sets industry standards for green building design.
LEED
What is the meaning of LEED?
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
The comprehensive examination of a product’s environmental and economic effects throughout its lifetime, including raw material extraction, transportation, manufacturing, use and disposal.
Life Cycle Assessment
This refers to the degree to which a product is poisonous to people or other living organisms.
Low Toxic
Informational fact sheets that identify hazardous chemicals and health and physical hazards, including exposure limits and precautions for workers who may come into contact with these chemicals.
Material Safety Data Sheet
A finite source.
Non-renewable
The protective layer of atmosphere, 15 miles above the ground, that absorbs some of the sun’s ultraviolet rays, reducing the amount of potentially harmful radiation reaching the Earth’s surface.
Ozone Layer
Reducing the amount of energy, materials, packaging or water in the design, manufacturing or purchasing of products or materials in an effort to increase efficient use of resources, reduce toxicity and eliminate waste.
Pollution Prevention
The ability of a product or material to be recovered or otherwise diverted from the solid waste stream for the purpose of recycling.
Recyclability
Waste materials and by-products that have been recovered or diverted from solid waste but do not include those materials and by-products generated from and commonly reused within an original manufacturing process
Recycled/Recovered Materials
A series of activities including collection, separation and processing by which products or materials are recovered from the solid waste stream for use in the form of raw materials in the manufacture of new products other than fuel for producing heat or power by combustion.
Recycling
A practice in which the primary consideration of material use begins with the concept of “Reduce - Reuse - Recycle - Repair” stated in descending order of priority. This concept may be applied in everyday life to help promote a sustainable society.
Resource Efficiency
Energy harvested from sources that are not depleted when used, typically causing very low environmental impact. Examples include solar energy, hydroelectric power and wind power.
Renewable Energy
A recycling concept by which an existing product can have its useful life extended through a secondary manufacturing or refurbishing process such as remanufactured systems furniture.
Remanufacturing
Health complaints such as nasal congestion, headache, irritated eyes, lethargy and tiredness, which are difficult to medically diagnose but are present in individuals when they are within a building and disappear or diminish once they leave the building.
Sick Building Syndrome
Dictates that the same number of trees cut down are planted.
Sustainable Yield Forestry
Dictates the management of a productive forest that supports a healthy ecosystem.
Ecologically Sustainable Forestry
The appropriate combination of temperatures, warm or cool, combined with air flow and humidity, which allows one to be comfortable within the confines of a building. This comfort is not usually achieved by the fixed setting of thermostats but through careful design and planning.
Thermal Comfort
These substances are indoor air pollutants or chemical compounds that exist as vapor or gases at normal temperatures and are carbon-based molecules typically used as solvents in products such as household cleaners, paints, inks and dyes.
Volatile Organic Compound
This is a process to reduce or eliminate the amount of waste generated at its source or to reduce the amount of toxicity from waste or the reuse of materials.
Waste Reduction
The total flow of solid waste from homes, businesses, institutions and manufacturing that is recycled, burned or disposed of in landfills.
Waste Stream
Water that has been used and contaminated. Must be purified before being used again or before being returned to the environment.
Wastewater
