SPD Ballast - Ch 5 Site Analysis And Design

Question 1

Passive Solar Cooling

Answer 1

utilizes the concepts of shading, natural ventilation, radiative cooling, evaporative cooling, and ground coupling.

Question 2

RADIATIVE COOLING

Answer 2

Uses Thermal Mass to store heat during the day and release heat to the outside at night.

Question 3

GROUND COUPLING

Answer 3

Uses the stable coolness of the earth to cool a building, typically by using a ground-source heat pump.

Question 4

FACADE-INTEGRATED PHOTOVOLTAICS

Answer 4

New technologies are integrating PV technology with other building materials such as glass or roofing shingles.

Question 5

RUNOFF

Answer 5

Additional stormwater that does not seep into the ground

Question 6

ABOVEGROUND DRAINAGE

Answer 6

Involves sheet flow, gutters built into roadways and parking areas, ground swales as part of the landscaping, and channels.

Question 7

UNDERGROUND DRAINAGE

Answer 7

Utilizes perforated drains and enclosed storm sewers that carry the runoff from the site to a municipal storm sewer system or to a natural drainage outlet such as a river.

Question 8

SHEET FLOW

Answer 8

is simply water that drains across a sloping surface, whether paved, grassy, or landscaped.

Question 9

BUILDING SEWER

Answer 9

The portion of the horizontal piping of the sanitary sewer system outside the building

Question 10

CROWN

Answer 10

for drainage from the center of the road way, called the ______

Question 11

ALBEDO

Answer 11

is that portion of the radiant energy that is reflected as it falls on a surface.

Question 12

CHECKS

Answer 12

Parallels (standard parallels) and meridians (guide meridians) are 24 miles apart, and the squares they form are called_____