Sustainable Sites Flashcards

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What is albedo?

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a metric to define the reflectivity of an object from darkest black to white using a scale from 0 to 1

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What is building footprint?

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the area of ground hat the building occupies as defined by its perimeter

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What is GI? What does it stand for?

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Green infrastructure: the patchwork of natural areas that provide habitat, flood protection, clean air, and clean water at the scale of a city or county, or rainwater management systems that mimic nature by soaking up and storing water at the scale of a neighborhood or site

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What is IPM? What does it stand for?

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Integrated pest management: a sustainable approach of controlling pest infestation and damage in an economical way while minimizing hazards to people, property, and the environment

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What is light trespass?

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the spillage of light across a project boundary onto neighboring sites

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What is LID? What does it stand for?

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Low impact development: a land management strategy that emulates natural systems to mange rainwater as close to its source as possible

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What is SRI? What does it stand for?

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Solar reflectance index: a metric from 0 to 100 that measures how well a material reflects solar heat, with higher numbers signifying better reflectance

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What is watershed?

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the area of land where all the water that is under it or drains off of it goes to the same place

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What are the types of strategies for the sustainable site category?

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Site design and management strategies
Rainwater management strategies
Heat Island strategies
Light pollution strategies

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What are the site design and management strategies?

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Prevent construction pollution
Protect and restore habitat
Reduce size of building footprint
Increase site density
Maximize open space
Plant native and adapted species
Develop sustainable site management plan
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What are the rainwater management strategies?

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Reduce impervious hardscape
Implement rainwater management
Use passive rainwater management
Use active rainwater management (rain barrels, water cistern)

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What are the heat island strategies?

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Reduce exposed hardscapes

Use high-reflectance materials

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What are light pollution strategies?

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Install motion sensors and timers

Eliminate unnecessary lighting

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What are the 3 forms of light pollution? What is BUG?

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Upplight (causes artificial sky glow)
Glare (caused by high-angled front lighting)
Light trespass (is backlight caused by misdirecting light onto adjacent sites and in the opposite direction of the area intended to be lighted)
BUG: (backlight, upplight, glare)rating method classifies luminaries according to their potential to generate light pollution

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How much water does flushing toilets use?

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30% of treated domestic water

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