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ISO 14044 Certification
Environmental Product Declaration for recycled materials.
ISO 14000
ISO 14000 Product oriented standards include Environmental Labels and Declaration, Life Cycle Assessment, and Design for Environment. These standards are intended to be applicable for assessing the environmental performance of products and services as well as providing guidance on improving their environmental performance.
ISO 14021 standard, Environmental Labels and Declaration, are communication tools that convey information on environmental aspects of a product or service to the market. These standards are used for recycled materials to label their pre and/or post consumer content.
What does ASHRAE 62.1-2010 specify?
ASHRAE 62.1-2010 Ventilation for Acceptable Indoor Air Quality specifies minimum ventilation rates. These rates are used to improve indoor air quality as part of the IEQ credit category.
What is IESNA?
The Illuminating Engineering Society of North America is the publisher of lighting design and illumination standards. For LEED these standards are used to help reduce light pollution from a project.
What term refers to a mandatory project characteristic, measurement, quality, value or function as identified within the LEED rating system?
Prerequisite.
What is HC?
HC refrigerant stands for hydrocarbon refrigerant, a natural, non-toxic, and flammable refrigerant that’s used in air conditioning and refrigeration. HC refrigerants are becoming more popular because they’re climate-friendly and cost-effective.
What is cogeneration
The generation of electricity and other energy jointly, especially the utilization of the steam left over from electricity generation to produce heat.
The baseline water use of a urinal is:
The baseline water use of a urinal is 1.0 gpf.
What is the minimum number of professionals that must be included as part of the integrated project team other than the owner or owner’s representative?
4
ASHRAE 55-2010
ASHRAE 55-2010 - Including standards regarding major factors effecting human comfort, such as temperature, humidity, etc.
ASHRAE 62.1-2010
Relates to natural ventilation, Indoor Air Quality
Green Label Plus
Relates to carpets and rugs
ASHRAE 52.2-2007
Method Testing of General Ventilation Air-Cleaning
ASHRAE/IESNA Standard 90.1-2010
Energy Efficient Design
What are the total credits and points for the Innovation Design Category (IN)?
Three credits and six points
Source reduction relates to?
Waste Prevention
In Locations and Transportation (LT) category, projects fulfilling the first credit, LEED for Neighborhood Development Location___?
Are not eligible to earn other credits in the category.
A(n) __ is an individual on the project team who is granted actual authority by the owner to register the project and accept the certification.
Project Administrator
