Chapter 11- Designing for Substainabilty

The design stage of building a home is critical to its long-term ________.

• resale cost

• sustainability

• maintenance costs

• financing

The terms sustainability and green building mean the same thing.

• True

• False

An effort to achieve one goal of sustainability often causes a negative impact in other ways.

• True

• False

Earth contains an unlimited supply of fresh water.

• True

• False

One of the basic principles of designing a net zero building is relying completely on renewable __________ resources.

• energy

• electric

• propane

• gas

Collecting sunlight and converting it to electrical power or thermal energy.

• Greenwashing

• Daylighting

• Solar harvesting

• Reclaiming

Using materials over and over again.

• Reclaiming

• Recycling

• Sustainability

• Ecosystem

Gray water is water that has been used in _______.

• toilets

• baths

• kitchen sinks

• dishwashers

A home must be a net zero energy to be considered truly sustainable.

• True

• False

Changing the site contour affects patterns of _____ for the building site and the land surrounding it.

• water runoff

• bird migration

• prevailing winds

• None of the above.