Sustainability for Construction

Focusing on our activities of the built environment, several strategies can be used to reduce the built environment carbon footprint. Select one of the strategies:

Restoring natural systems

There are (2) major green building assessment systems in the US and one emerging system. Which below is an emerging system?

LEED

LEED is an acronym for:

Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design

A proactive measure for handling construction site pollution for dust and airborne particles due to equipment operation or wind erosion of exposed soils is:

Limiting site disturbance

What is not a measure for Builder's to implement to ensure good IAQ for Building occupants?

Require contractors to provide information on product substitutions

What is a LEED CIR?

Credit interpretation rulings

In LEED V4.1 Indoor Environmental Quality for Schools, what is the maximum number of credits a project can achieve for interior lighting?

2

In LEED V4.1 Indoor Environmental Quality for Schools, what is the maximum number of credits a project can achieve for low emitting materials?

3

In LEED V4.1 Energy and Atmosphere Category for Schools, the maximum number of credits a project can receive is?

31

In LEED V4.1 Materials and Resources for Schools, what is the maximum number of credits a project can achieve for Building Life-Cycle Impact Reduction?

5

What is the definition of Green Building?

A facility designed to: **All of the Above Address health of the occupants and local ecosystem. Address Environmental Impact and Life Cycle resource consumption

When applying a pragmatic approach to sustainable materials attributes, the following is not a priority:

Aesthetic

A closed-loop building product and materials strategy must address several levels of materials use in its implementation. These include:

All of the above

Design-Bid-Build is a delivery system when the owner selects the design team to produce construction documents defining the:

All of the above

Human Activities Contributing to Imbalances in the Global Carbon Cycle include:

All of the above

LEED BD&C Schools focus on:

All of the above

LEED MPR are:

All of the above

Offsite Prefabrication of building components or modules may include:

All of the above

The Living Building Challenge is based on:

All of the above

The three priorities when selecting building materials and Products for a closed loop system are:

All of the above

Efficient Use of Materials Criteria for making a product green is not:

Certified wood

In LEED V4.1 Sustainable Sites a prerequisite for Schools is:

Environmental site assessment

A Guaranteed Maximum Price is usually required by the construction manager in a Construction Management at Risk delivery method. The GMP is when the total cost will not exceed the maximum price.

False

An EPD is a mandatory developed set of data that provides third party, quality assured and comparable information regarding the environmental performance of products based on an LCA.

False

Blackwater is human waste stemming from bathroom toilets only

False

Building Commissioning services are only executed by installation inspection.

False

General Color Characteristics of Typical Building Lighting systems: A fluorescent type light is White with yellow tint.

False

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is the ability to model a building's financial performance over its life cycle.

False

Odors is common and an annoying indoor environmental problem. The problem is easy and well understood.

False

Operational Carbon (OC) is the carbon resulting from energy produced to operate the built environment for heating and cooling only.

False

Ryn and Cowan define ecological design as "some form of design that maximizes environmentally destructive impacts by integrating itself with living processes?

False

The built environment hydrological cycle is the flow and storage of all types of water on sites unaltered from their natural state for the purpose of building and infrastructure.

False

Problems associated with lighting quality are similar to those associated with noise and the cause is a widely understood building support system.

Flase

Who is responsible for controlling pollution daily on a project?

GC/CM

Asbestos is a potentially deadly IAQ problem.

Galse

LEED BD&C Healthcare focus on:

Impatient/outpatient

The US EPA is addressing climate change by taking the following action to reduce GHG emission from the transportation sector:

Increase use of renewable fuels

LCA (Life-Cycle Assessment) comprises of several steps. Which is not one of the steps?

Interpretation of deconstruction

LEED BD&C Rating Tools include:

NC, CS, S, Retail, Hospitality, and Healthcare

Overview of Building Design Issues as Stated in the Sustainable Building Technical Manual Includes the following:

Passive solar design, materials and specs, Building system and indoor environmental quality

The Principles of Sustainable Construction are:

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Protect Nature, Eliminate Toxics, Apply Life Cycle Costing, Focus on Quality

Which is not a Passive Design Strategy?

Shading to increase energy consumption

A factor that increases the difficulty of closing material loops in the built environment

The end product does not have a single manufacturer

The Framework for Sustainable construction is:

The principles, the resources, the phase

A carbon neutral building offsets carbon emissions from operational and embodied energy offset by strategies that generate renewable energy on or off the building site or that store carbon.

True

A charrette is a collaborative session in which a project team creates a solution for a design or project problem.

True

A site protection plan is used to ensure that disturbances to the site ecology and soils are minimized during construction operations.

True

Building assessment systems score or rate the environmental, resource, and health impacts of a building's design, construction, and operation against the criteria established by the assessment system.

True

Fly ash is the solid residue derived from incineration processes. Fly ash can be used as a substitute for Portland cement in concrete. The usage of fly ash (an additive/mineral admixture) lowers the impact on the environment.

True

In LEED V4.1 Indoor Environmental Quality for Schools, Minimum Acoustic Performance is a Prerequisite?

True

In every LEED V4.1 checklist the Integrative Project Planning and Design is a credit.

True

LEED V4.1 has the same prerequisites for every project checklist?

True

LEED online Reviews are for design and construction.

True

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a method for determining the environmental and resource impacts of a material, product, or whole building.

True

One of the major contributions of the high-performance green building delivery system is to require building commissioning as a standard practice.

True

Projects located on a site larger than 0.10 acres must meet the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Requirements of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) by implementing a Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan.

True

Renewable means able to regenerate in the same form at a rate greater than the rate of consumption.

True

Sustainable land use is based on the principle that land, particularly undeveloped, natural, or agricultural land is a precious finite resource, and its development should be minimized.

True

The IPD is a delivery method that integrates people, systems, business structures, and practices into a process that collaboratively harnesses the talents and insights of all participants to reduce waste and optimize efficiency through all phases of design, fabrication, and construction.

True

The ecological footprint is the inverse of carrying capacity and represents the amount of land needed to support a given population.

True

The ideal arrangement is to hire the CxA at the onset of the project, along with the design team and construction manager.

True

VOC's are carbon-containing compounds that evaporate readily at room temperature and are found in many housekeeping, maintenance, and building products made with organic chemicals.

True

The Design-Build is a project delivery method in which the one entity (designer/builder) has single contract with the owner.

Trye

There are four different types of LCA's: Cradle to Cradle is the preferred LCA for a closed loop system.

Trye

The availability of potable water is the limiting factor for development and construction in many areas of the world. Water conservation techniques include:

Xeriscaping, water recycling, rainwater harvesting, use of low flow plumbing fixtures