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Materials and Resources - 9 Flashcards

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What is the environmental benefit in reusing a building (3)?

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  1. Prevents urban sprawl
  2. Land conservation
  3. Reduced need for virgin construction materials
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What is the social benefit of reusing materials (2)?

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  1. Reduced landfill use

2. Reduced emissions due to material transport

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What information does a Life-Cycle Assessment provide?

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Measures the product’s environmental impact throughout its life cycle.

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What are examples of materials that have a reduced impact on the environment?

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+ Products with ISO 14000 Environmental Labels

+ Salvaged materials (ie bricks, wood (flooring, cabinets, etc), tiles, doors)

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What is designing for flexibility?

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Designing for flexibility is a concept that considers the future use of the building and how it may be modified while at the same time reducing waste and reducing the need for new materials.

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What is a waster stream audit?

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The measurement and verification of the recycling program within an existing building

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What types of materials can be recycled or reused?

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LEED specifies that at minimum a project must recycle:

  • Paper
  • Corrugated cardboard
  • Glass
  • Plastics
  • Metals
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What is source reduction?

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The practice of designing, manufacturing, purchasing, or using materials in ways that reduce the amount or toxicity of waste

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What is a construction waste management plan?

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A plan developed before construction begins, whereby it identifies potential waste streams and where waste diversion can be put in place (salvage, reuse, recycle).

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What does environmental product declaration (EPD) include (5)?

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  • Global warming impact
    • Ozone depletion
    • Water pollution
    • Ozone creation
    • GHGs
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What information is included in a health product declaration (HPD)?

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Provide full disclosure of the potential chemicals of concern in products.

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What documents provides transparency for a product?

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  • Environmental Product Declaration (EPD)
  • Health Product Declaration (HPD)
  • Corporate Sustainability Reports (CSR)
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What LEED categories contain standards related to VOC emissions?

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  1. Materials & Resources (MR)

2. Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ)

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What is ISO 14021?

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Dictate the environmental labels and declarations needed for a product or service.

(This standard is used for recycled materials to label their pre and/or post-consumer content.)

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What does Certification by FOREST STEWARDSHIP COUNCIL mean?

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Certification means forest managers have adopted environmentally and socially responsible forest management practices. And certification allows companies to manufacture and sell products made from sustainable wood.

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What is Chain-of-Custody (CoC) Certification?

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Chain of Custody refers to chronological documentation or paper trail. CoC is important in LEED when dealing with certified wood. Companies that process, manufacture, and/or sell products made of certified wood can earn CoC certification by having an audit done of their documentation. This certification shows the FSC that the name and logo are being used correctly.

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What is meant by LIFE-CYCLE ASSESSMENT?

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A Life-Cycle assessment is an analysis of the environment aspects and potential impacts associated with a product, process, or service.

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What is Green Seal used for?

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Identification of environmentally preferable products in addition to endorsing low VOC products.

(Green Seal is an independent nonprofit organization that indentifies and promotes products that are environmentally preferable.)

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What type of products are related to the Green Seal standard?

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Paints and primers

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What LEED credit category has credits that reference the Green Seal standard?

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Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ)

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What is life cycle costing?

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Evaluates a product’s economic performance

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What is life cycle assessment?

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The investigation and valuation of the environmental impacts of a given product or service caused or necessitated by its existence.

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Why should you use life cycle costing?

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When there exists project alternatives that fulfill the same performance requirements, but differ with respect to initial costs and operating costs. The comparison can help maximize net savings.

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When should life cycle assessment be used?

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When considering the products long term environmental impact over the products lifetime.

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What is a LIFE-CYCLE COST Analysis?

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Life-cycle cost analysis calculates expected future operating, maintenance, and replacement costs of designs and features used to assist owners in developing a realistic design and budget estimate.

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What is embodied energy?

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The available energy that was used in the work of making a product. Embodied energy is an accounting methodology which aims to find the sum total of the energy necessary for an entire product lifecycle. This lifecycle includes raw material extraction, transport, manufacture, assembly, installation, disassembly, deconstruction and/or decomposition.

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What is POSTCONSUMER RECYCLED content?

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It is the percentage of material in a product that was consumer waste. The recycled material was generated by household, commercial, industrial, or institutional end-users and can no longer be used for its intended purpose. Postconsumer is just that, material recycled after being used by the consumer.

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Reusing an existing building can help earn credit in what category?

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Materials & Resources

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What is PRE-CONSUMER recycled content?

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Pre-consumer recycled content is formerly known as postindustrial content, is a percentage of material in a product that is recycled from manufacturing waste. Since the material is never sold to the consumer, it is pre-consumer material.

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What is RECYCLED content?

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Recycled content is the proportion, by mass, of preconsumer or postconsumer recycled material in a product (ISO 14021).

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What is COMMINGLED RECYCLING?

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Commingled recycling accepts a wide range of recyclable materials. This allows materials to be collected in one bin, or location, prior to being sent to a recycling facility for separation. This type of recycling takes up less space and has better participation from occupants.

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What is waste diversion?

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Reducing the amount of recyclable material being thrown away and ultimately wasted by disposal in the landfill. Many materials have uses or resources that can be recaptured through recycling.

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What are examples of PRECONSUMER recycled content?

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  1. Planer shavings
  2. sawdust
  3. bagasse
  4. walnut shells
  5. culls
  6. trimmed materials
  7. over issue publications
  8. obsolete inventories.
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What are examples of content that is excluded from PRE-CONSUMER recycled content?

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  1. Rework
  2. regrind
  3. scrap materials capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated them.
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What are examples of POSTCONSUMER recycled content (4)?

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  1. Construction and demolition debris
  2. materials collected through recycling programs
  3. discarded domestic products, (e.g., furniture, cabinetry, decking),
  4. landscaping waste (e.g., leaves, grass clippings, tree trimmings)
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RECYCLED CONTENT is defined in accordance with what document?

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ISO 14021 - International Organization of Standards document.

37
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What type of recycled content is a material that contains recycled newspaper?

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Post-consumer recycled content

38
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What is the FSC?

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The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), established in 1933 in response to those concerns over global deforestation. It is an international non-profit, multi-stakeholder organization that promotes responsible management of the world’s forests.

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What is the environmental benefit of using SALVAGED MATERIALS?

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It reduces the demand for virgin materials.

40
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What is a VOC?

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Volatile Organic Compounds can negative health effects when inhaled. Many VOCs are human made chemicals that are used and produced in the manufacture of paints, pharmaceuticals, and refrigerants.

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What is CONSTRUCTION & DEMOLITION debris?

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Construction and demolition debris are waste building materials, dredging materials, tree stumps, and rubble resulting from construction, remodeling, repair, and demolition of homes, commercial buildings and other structures and pavements.

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What materials are not allowed to be included in the calculations for Construction Waste Management (2)?

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  1. Excavated materials such as dirt and trees

2. Hazardous materials such as asbestos and lead covered debris

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What is a CONSTRUCTION WASTE MANAGEMENT PLAN?

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A construction waste management plan are administrative and procedural requirements for salvaging, recycling and disposing of nonhazardous demolition and construction waste.

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What are low VOC products?

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Materials that have less off-gassing, resulting in improved indoor air quality.

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What is REUSE?

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A strategy to use existing materials in a similar or different capacity that allows for the preservation of natural resources.

46
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At a minimum what materials must a commercial LEED project include in a recycling program?

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\+ Paper 
\+ Corrugated cardboard 
\+ Glass 
\+ Plastics 
\+ Metals
47
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What are SALVAGED MATERIALS?

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Construction materials recovered from building sites and reused on different building sites in the same or a different capacity. Examples can include flooring, brick, beams, and doors.

48
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What are the benefits of regional materials?

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Reduced transportation costs Support of local resources

49
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What CREDIT CATEGORY addresses RECYCLED CONTENT?

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Materials & Resources

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What is REACH used for?

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REACH is the Regulation on Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals. REACH requires all companies manufacturing or importing chemical substances into the European Union in quantities of one ton or more per year to register these

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What is the waste reduction hierarchy?

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  • Source reduction
      • Reuse
        • — Recycling
          • —- Waste-to-energy
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What is WASTE-TO-ENERGY?

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The process of generating energy in the form of electricity and/or heat from the incineration of waste.

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What does designing for flexibility mean?

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Designing for flexibility is a concept that considers the future use of the building and how it may be modified while at the same time reducing waste and reducing the need for new materials.

54
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What is product transparency?

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what’s in the material or how was it obtained.

(Each building disclosure and optimization credit in the Materials and Resources section has two options for compliance. The first option is for material transparency - what’s in the material or how was it obtained. There are third party certifications use)

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What is an ENVIRONMENTAL PRODUCT DECLARATION (EPD)?

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The Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) is a standardized way of quantifying the environmental impact of a product or system. It is a statement that the item meets the environmental requirements of ISO 14021?€ô1999, ISO 14025?€ô2006 and EN 15804

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What is a HEALTH PRODUCT DECLARATION (HPD)?

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Health Product Declaration (HPDs) provide a full disclosure of the potential chemicals of concern in products by comparing product ingredients to a wide variety of “hazard” lists published by government authorities and scientific associations.

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What is a CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY REPORT (CSR)?

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A CSR report is a third-party verified report that includes information on how the manufacturer extracts or sources materials

58
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What are three examples of building material product disclosure?

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  • Raw materials sourcing
  • Material ingredients
  • Environmental product disclosure
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What does the ISO 14000 standard do?

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Assess environmental performance of products and services and provide guidance on improving their environmental performance

60
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What is ADAPTIVE REUSE?

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The practice of redesigning and using a structure for a use that is significantly different from the building’s original use.

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What do the credits in the Materials and Resources (MR) category focus on?

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Minimizing the embodied impacts associated with the entire life-cycle of building materials

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What is the purpose of a life-cycle assessment?

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To understand the trade-offs of material selection and energy performance

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What is EXTENDED PRODUCER RESPONSIBILITY?

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Measures undertaken by the maker of a product to accept its own and sometimes other manufacturers’ products as postconsumer waste at the end of the products’ useful life. Producers recover and recycle the materials for use in new products of the same type

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What standards can be used to identify green cleaning products?

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Environmental Choice and Green Sea

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