2022 02 LEED Green Associate LEED PROCESS 2

Exemplary performance and pilot credits are awarded in what LEED category?

• Awareness and education

• Innovation

• Sustainable Sites

• Core and Shell

Answer explanation

All LEED rating systems award projects for innovative, exemplary performance, and pilot credits.Innovative strategies are those that are not addressed in the LEED rating system.Exemplary performance strategies are earned when a higher threshold is achieved beyond that required by the credit.Pilot credits are experimental credits project teams can pursue.

Which of the following is not a credit category for LEED for Neighborhood Development?

• Smart Location and Linkage

• Neighborhood Pattern and Design

• Green Infrastructure and Buildings

• Awareness and Education

Answer explanation

In the commercial building rating systems the topics of Awareness and Education are covered under the Innovation category.

What LEED credit category encourages strategies that minimize the impact on ecosystems and water resources?

• Sustainable Sites

• Water Efficiency

• Location and Transportation

• Regional Priority

Answer explanation

Sustainable sites credits encourage strategies that minimize the impact on ecosystems and water resources.

What LEED credit category rewards projects within relatively dense areas, near diverse uses, with access to a variety of transportation options, or on sites with development constraints?

• Location and Transportation

• Sustainable Sites

• Innovation

• Smart Location and Linkage

Answer explanation

Location and Transportation

What rating system has a credit category named Smart Location and Linkage?

• LEED BD+C

• LEED ND

• LEED O+M

• LEED ID+C

Answer explanation

Smart location & linkage credits promote walk-able neighborhoods with efficient transportation options and open space.

What is the intent of the Indoor Environmental Quality credits?

• Promote better indoor air quality and access to daylight and views

• Using reused materials inside the building envelope

• Reducing indoor potable water use

• Decreasing the lighting power density for interior lights

Answer explanation

Promote better indoor air quality and access to daylight and views

What impact category most directly helps with the people aspect of the triple bottom line?

• Promote sustainable and regenerative material resources cycles

• Protect and restore water resources

• Enhance social equity, environmental justice, and community quality of life

• Protect, enhance, and restore biodiversity and ecosystem services

Answer explanation

This impact category directly emphasizes social equity and community.

Which of the following impact categories is given the greatest weight in LEED?

• Promote Sustainable and Regenerative Material Resources Cycles

• Enhance Individual Human Health and Well-Being

• Protect and Restore Water Resources

• Protect, Enhance and Restore Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

• Reverse Contribution to Global Climate Change

Answer explanation

Weighting of the LEED v4 impact categories account for differences in scale, scope, severity, and relative contribution of the built environment to the impact. The weightings are:35% Reverse Contribution to Global Climate Change20% Enhance Individual Human Health and Well-Being15% Protect and Restore Water Resources10% Protect, Enhance and Restore Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services10% Promote Sustainable and Regenerative Material Resources Cycles5% Build a Greener Economy5% Enhance Social Equity, Environmental Justice, Community Health and Quality of Life

Which of the following impact categories are given the greatest weight in LEED?

• Reverse Contribution to Global Climate Change and Enhance Individual Human Health and Well-Being

• Protect and Restore Water Resources and Protect, Enhance and Restore Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

• Promote Sustainable and Regenerative Material Resources Cycles and Reverse Contribution to Global Climate Change

• Build a Greener Economy and Enhance Social Equity, Environmental Justice, Community Health and Quality of Life

Answer explanation

Weighting of the LEED v4 impact categories account for differences in scale, scope, severity, and relative contribution of the built environment to the impact. The weightings are:35% Reverse Contribution to Global Climate Change20% Enhance Individual Human Health and Well-Being15% Protect and Restore Water Resources10% Protect, Enhance and Restore Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services10% Promote Sustainable and Regenerative Material Resources Cycles5% Build a Greener Economy5% Enhance Social Equity, Environmental Justice, Community Health and Quality of Life

Which of the following are LEED impact categories?

• Social Capital, Natural Capital, and Economic Capital

• Reuse Dependence on Fossil Fuels and Create a Strong Sense of Place

• Build a Greener Economy and Protect and Restore Water Resources

• Natural Context, Infrastructural Context, and Social Context

Answer explanation

These Impact Categories answer the question: "What should a LEED project accomplish?:Reverse Contribution to Global Climate ChangeEnhance Individual Human Health and Well-BeingProtect and Restore Water ResourcesProtect, Enhance and Restore Biodiversity and Ecosystem ServicesPromote Sustainable and Regenerative Material Resources CyclesBuild a Greener EconomyEnhance Social Equity, Environmental Justice, and Community Quality of Life