Chapter 3

The term "stakeholder" encompasses more than just decision makers and includes:

• Those who must live with the decisions and those who must carry them out.

• Everyone who has a financial stake in the building.

• Everyone who is on the company payroll.

• Those members of the community who are not affiliated with the company but are affected by its decisions.

What is the most critical impact category out of the seven, meaning the largest environmental impact, as determined by USGBC?

• Reverse Contribution to Global Climate Change

• Protect, Enhance, and Restore Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

• Protect and Restore Water Resources

A charrette is:

• Generally held at the end of the project

• The process of bringing in the design team only for focused conversations

• The process brings together the project team with stakeholders and outside experts for creative thinking and collaboration

• A gathering of LEED APs for a general discussion on sustainability

When applying systems thinking to designing building and communities, we must understand:

• Systems are always simple and self-contained

• Most systems are actually systems within systems

• Unchecked, positive feedback loops can create chaos in a system

• Both the individual elements of the system and their relationships to each other as a whole

A major consideration when developing a sustainable project budget is:

• Final contractor bids

• Life-cycle costs

• Construction hard costs only

• Construction change orders

Social responsibility, environmental stewardship, and economic prosperity are three components of the:

• Triple plan of action

• Triple bottom line

• Steps to LEED certification

• Life-cycle costing

A new credit in LEED v4 that encourages early analysis of energy, site, and water systems to inform design is:

• Integrative Process

• Site Assessment

• Fundamental Commissioning and Verification

• Demand Response

This approach emphasizes connections and communication among professionals and stakeholders throughout the life of a project. It breaks down disciplinary boundaries and rejects linear planning and design processes that can lead to inefficient solutions:

• Integrative Process

• Conventional building and design

• Life-cycle approach

• Cradle to cradle

What is a system?

• An unconnected group that works independently of the other parts, yet remains connected through feedback loops.

• An assemblage of elements or parts that interact in a series of relationships to form a complex whole that serves particular functions or purposes.

• A complex group of interconnected parts whose performance is dependent on the weakest link.

• A series of interconnected elements whose performance is not affected by a change to one of the parts.

In the seven impact categories or LEED goals, how is water listed?

• Protect, Enhance, and Restore Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

• Clean and Protect the Global Water Supply

• Protect and Restore Water Resources

• Reduce Potable Water Use Globally