Worksheets2022 01 LEED Green Associate LEED PROCESS 1
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 38mins
What are the roles of USGBC?
Overseeing LEED credential maintenance and third-party technical reviews of registered LEED projects
Administering and creating the LEED rating systems and issuing LEED building certifications
Auditing member companies and providing building grants to for-profit companies
Promoting the triple bottom line and administering the LEED exams
How does USGBC support achievement of its mission "to transform the way buildings and communities are designed, built and operated, enabling an environmentally and socially responsible, healthy, and prosperous environment that improves the quality of life"?
Partnership with GBCIs.
Financial incentives
Free consulting
Local chapters
What is USGBC's vision?
Transform the way buildings and communities are designed, built, and operated
Buildings and communities that will regenerate and sustain the health and vitality of all life within a generation
See the transformation of a built environment that leads to a sustainable future
This is CaGBC's vision.
Lead and accelerate the transformation to high-performing, healthy green buildings, homes, and communities throughout the United States
"To transform the way buildings and communities are designed, built, and operated, enabling an environmentally and socially responsible, healthy, and prosperous environment that improves the quality of life" denotes which of the following:
USGBC's mission
USGBC's vision
USGBC's 2013-2015 strategic plan
The purpose of LEED Online
Promoting the triple bottom line is a part of USGBC's:
Guiding principles
Vision
Mission
Strategic goals
Which of the following instances of documentation is an acceptable form when the name of the organization is appearing in a press release for the first time?
United States Green Building Council
U.S.G.B.C.
U.S. GBC
U.S. Green Building Council
A member company wants to display its USGBC member logo. What would be an appropriate use for the USGBC member logo?
On a company's product to show product endorsement
On company letterhead
On legal documents
On any partner website of the member company
What does LEED stand for?
Leadership in Energy Efficient Design
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
Leadership in Energy and Efficient Design
Leadership in Environmental Efficient Design
Grammatically, what language is the appropriate usage to describe a project that has been certified at any level?
LEED Certified
LEED certification
LEED-certified
LEED Certified certified
What describes a project that has been certified to the base level?
LEED's Certified
LEED Accredited
LEED Certified
LEED Certified certified
Which of the following are credit categories found in the LEED scorecard?
Sustainable Sites and Indoor Air Quality
Water Efficiency and LEED AP
Materials and Resources and Sustainable Sites
Energy Performance and Materials and Resources
Which of the following is NOT a minimum program requirement (MPR)?
Permanent location on existing land
Reasonable LEED boundaries
Compliance with project size requirements
Commitment to sharing whole-building energy and water usage data
Which of the following defines the types of buildings, spaces, and neighborhoods that the LEED rating system is designed to evaluate?
Prerequisites
Minimum Program Requirements
LEED Online
Credits
What are the key criteria that define green building performance?
Minimum program requirements
Third party standards
Prerequisites
Innovative designs
What term refers to a mandatory project characteristic, measurement, quality, value or function as identified within the LEED rating system?
Credit
Minimum Program Requirement
Prerequisite
Exemplary performance
Which of the following are mandatory for LEED certification?
Meeting all prerequisites
Having a LEED AP on the project
Earning at least 50 points
Pursuing 4 Regional Priority credits
Earning Innovation points
Each LEED credit and prerequisite includes the intent of the credit/prerequisite. What is the 'intent' of a credit/prerequisite?
Details the level of performance needed to achieve a credit
Identifies the main sustainability goal or benefit of the prerequisite or credit
Addresses the synergies and trade-offs between credits
Outlines concerns specific to specific regions
What are the goals of the Minimum Program Requirements?
Protect the integrity of the LEED program
Ensure prerequisites are met
Verify buildings are meeting environmental goals
To host a LEED Charette
What is required of all new LEED buildings?
Must have a minimum building height, have a daylighting strategy, and provide for occupant comfort
Must have an ENERGY STAR score of 50, use sustainable building materials, and have preferred parking
Must have access to public transportation, manage rainwater, and have a FAR of at least 1.5
Must be a permanent structure, use a reasonable site boundary, and have a minimum floor area
What is each LEED rating system made up of?
3rd party standards
A combination of credit categories
Impact categories
Interpretations
What best defines the project boundary?
Portion of the project site submitted for LEED certification
Platted property line of the project defining land and water within it
Total area within the platted property line not including any non-constructed areas
Total area within the legal property boundaries of the site; this encompasses all areas of the site, including constructed and non constructed areas
What best defines the property area?
Portion of the project site submitted for LEED certification
Platted property line of the project defining land and water within it
Total area within the platted property line not including any non-constructed areas
Total area within the legal property boundaries of the site; it encompasses all areas of the site, including constructed and non-constructed areas
The total land area of a project site covered by buildings, streets, parking areas, and other typically impermeable surfaces constructed as part of the project is the:
Development footprint
LEED neighborhood
Stormwater retention area
Restored area
The area of a project site that is used by the building structure, defined by the perimeter of the building plan is the:
Building envelope
Building footprint
Development footprint
Building shell
What is the exterior surface of the building referred to as?
Building footprint
Building density
Envelope
Floor area ratio
What does the LEED Volume Program help with?
Cost-effective LEED certification on a volume scale
Comparing baseline energy use among buildings
Comparing design case energy use among buildings
Policy support for LEED documentation
A university client asks about certifying multiple buildings. Which of the following is an appropriate response?
The Campus Program can be used for projects not necessarily uniform in design or operations but located on a single campus location.
The LEED Volume Program is always used for certifying more than one building.
The Campus Program is used for certifying multiple buildings if they are adjacent to each other.
The Neighborhood Development rating system would be used to streamline the documentation process.
A hamburger franchise is planning on building thirty new restaurants across the country in the next two years. Each restaurant is based on the same prototype. How should the multiple buildings be certified?
Using the LEED Volume Program
By registering each project individually with LEED Online
Using the LEED Campus Program
As a LEED for Neighborhood Development project
A telecom company is building a new ten-story office and data center. The office space will be on the top seven floors and the data center on the first three floors. Which of the following rating system would be best suited for the project?
LEED BD+C: Data Centers
LEED BD+C: Warehouses and Distribution Centers
LEED BD+C: Core and Shell
LEED BD+C: New Construction
Which of the following LEED rating systems would the project team of a planned new three-story apartment building choose?
The LEED Homes rating system that corresponds to the ENERGY STAR program in which they are participating.
LEED ND: Plan
LEED BD+C: New Construction and Major Renovations
LEED Multifamily Midrise
What LEED rating system helps create better, more sustainable, well-connected neighborhoods?
LEED ND
LEED BD+C: Schools
LEED Homes
LEED O+M: Existing Buildings
A building owner's project includes a major HVAC renovation, significant envelope modifications, and core plumbing renovation. An interior fit-out is not part of the project. What LEED rating system would be most appropriate for this project?
LEED ID+C: Commercial Interiors
LEED BD+C: New Construction
LEED O+M: Existing Buildings
LEED BD+C: Core and Shell
A new building tenant is leasing 2-stories in an existing 10-story building. What rating system would be appropriate for the project?
LEED Interior Design and Construction: Commercial Interiors
LEED Building Design and Construction: New Construction
LEED Operations and Maintenance: Existing Buildings
LEED Building Design and Construction: Core and Shell
Which LEED rating system can be certified before full occupancy?
LEED BD+C: Schools
LEED BD+C: New Construction
LEED O+M: Existing Buildings
LEED BD+C: Core and Shell
LEED ID+C: Commercial Interiors
An architect is designing a mixed use building that will have retail space on the lower floors and residential condominiums on the upper floors. The building will also include space for a pre-kindergarten learning facility. What LEED rating system would be most appropriate?
LEED BD+C: Schools
LEED BD+C: New Construction
LEED BD+C: Retail
LEED ID+C: Commercial Interiors
A multi-family building that is 3 stories tall would be certified under what rating system?
LEED BD+C: New Construction
LEED Homes and Multifamily Lowrise
LEED Multifamily Midrise
LEED ID+C: Commercial Interiors
Performance periods are part of which LEED rating system family?
LEED BD+C
LEED O+M
LEED ID+C
LEED ND
What LEED rating system addresses exterior site maintenance programs?
LEED BD+C: Schools
LEED BD+C: New Construction
LEED O+M: Existing Buildings
LEED BD+C: Core and Shell
When there are two or more rating systems that might be applicable to a project, how should the project team decide which rating system to use?
Use the 40/60 rule
Choose the rating system that has the most regional priority credits
Choose the rating system that will result in the lowest certification costs
Check with local code what rating system to use
What factor impacts the cost of earning LEED-certification?
Square footage of the building
The number of stories the building has
The number of Full Time Equivalents (FTEs) that will occupy the finished building
The type of land the building was built on
What additional LEED certification would a project team likely pursue for an office building that has already earned LEED BD+C: Core and Shell if the offices will be leased out to tenants?
LEED BD+C: New Construction
LEED ID+C: Commercial Interiors
LEED Homes
LEED BD+C: Core and Shell post-certification
If a building has already earned LEED BD+C: New Construction certification what additional certifications could the building earn in the future?
LEED BD+C: Core and Shell
LEED ID+C: Commercial Interiors
LEED Homes
LEED for Neighborhood Development
How does LEED evaluate the environmental performance of a building?
From a whole building perspective over a building's life cycle
Using LEED Online
Through a cradle to grave analysis
By the amount of energy reduction
What is one of the important factors of the LEED Green Building Rating System?
It is mandatory
It is consensus-based
It is the only green building standard
It is government-financed
The point values of a credit are based on the credit's ability to:
Increase building costs
Be easily implemented
Contribute to a higher certification level
Mitigate the environmental harms of a building
Who is responsible for ensuring the use of the consensus process to evolve LEED in accordance with the mission, guiding principles, and strategic plan of USGBC?
LEED Steering Committee
LEED Technical Committee
LEED Technical Advisory Groups
LEED Board of Directors
Who develops ongoing improvements to LEED?
USGBC member-based volunteer committees in conjunction with USGBC staff
USGBC Technical Advisory Groups (TAGs)
World Green Building Council (WGBC)
USGBC Board of Directors
Which of the following helps reinforce the open consensus process of new LEED versions?
The balloting process with USGBC membership
The feedback projects receive from LEED credit reviewers
Government oversight
The addition of new LEED adaptations
The LEED Green Building Rating System is all of the following EXCEPT:
Voluntary
Consensus-based
Market-driven
Privately funded
What are the basic types of LEED improvements that are updated through revisions on a regular development cycle?
Addenda and LEED reviewer comments
Adaptations and Credit interpretation requests
Next version of LEED rating system and LEED technical requests
Addenda and Next version of LEED rating system
Credit interpretation requests and LEED technical requests
