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Guide to the LEED green associate V4 exam
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ISBN: 9781118870242 9781118870310 Year: 2014 Publisher: Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley,

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"Designed for how people study, the book is clearly organized and provides sample questions and flashcards through out the book"--


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Green neighborhood development : LEED reference guide for neighborhood development.
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ISBN: 9781932444308 1932444300 Year: 2009 Publisher: Washington, DC : U.S. Green Building Council,


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Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design.
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Year: 2014 Publisher: [Grand Junction, Colo.] : U.S. Department of Energy, Legacy Management,


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LeadingGreen : LEED® green associate exam V4 study guide
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ISBN: 1003405851 1003405851 1000903613 Year: 2023 Publisher: New York, NY : Routledge,


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Life cycle assessment and environmental building declaration for the design building at the University of Massachusetts
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Year: 2018 Publisher: Madison, WI : United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory,

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With the world's increasing focus on sustainability in the construction sector through green building systems, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has been actively engaged in green building advocacy in the United States through USDA Tall Wood Building competitions and follow-up research on use of mass timber for nonresidential buildings. The USDA Forest Service, Forest Product Laboratory (FPL) funded the study of environmental performance of the pioneer mass timber building (the John W. Olver Design Building) built at University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2016. The Athena Sustainable Materials Institute conducted the whole building life cycle assessment (LCA) using the Impact Estimator for Building software. Secondly, the reported LCA results led to development of an environmental building declaration (EBD) in conformance with European standard EN 15978. Environmental building declarations summarize the embodied and operational environmental impacts during the full building life cycle. An EBD is much like an environmental product declaration (EPD) which is intended for marketing and educational use, but instead of covering individual products like an EPD, an EBD covers the whole building. Lastly, the LCA results of the Design Building were then compared with a functionally equivalent steel and concrete building to acquire the whole building LCA credit in Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) v.4 for green buildings. With the mass timber use in the Design Building, the building qualified for the whole building LCA credit in LEED v4. With this project, FPL is helping to standardize environmental performance reporting and advanced mass timber building sustainability.


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LEED : reference guide for homes design and construction.
ISBN: 9781932444124 Year: 2013 Publisher: Washtington, DC U.S. Green Building Council


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From tragedy to triumph : rebuilding Greensburg, Kansas, to be a 100% renewable energy city : preprint
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Year: 2010 Publisher: Golden CO : National Renewable Energy Laboratory,


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LEED reference guide for building design and construction.
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ISBN: 9781932444186 1932444181 Year: 2013 Publisher: Washington, DC : U.S. Green Building Council,


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LEED lab : a model for sustainable design education
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ISBN: 9781138326682 9781138326699 Year: 2022 Publisher: New York, NY : Routledge,

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"Facility performance evaluations inform the long-term life of a building and do not end with design or construction. To this aim, Patricia Andrasik created LEED Lab in collaboration with the US Green Building Council, an increasingly popular international interdisciplinary collegiate laboratory course which utilizes campus buildings as demonstration sites to facilitate the green assessment of existing buildings. LEED Lab: A Model for Sustainable Design Education uses the LEED EB:O+M building rating system to measure and achieve performance-driven campus facilities in which the readers work and operate. The book explains in simple terms the theory, tasks, tools and techniques necessary for credit implementation and achievement, and includes case studies and exercises for practical application in each chapter. Readers will learn the conceptual scientific framework used to understand existing operational performance and how to quantify sustainable synergies, create green campus policies with administrators, and understand systems such as energy and water in a research-based application. The entire manual is accompanied by a vast online 'Teaching Toolkit' appendix to provide helpful educational resources such as syllabi, lectures, examinations, assignments, Individual Student Progress Presentation (ISSP) templates, web resources, and much more. An excellent guide for undergraduate or graduate students enrolled in LEED Lab or a similar campus building assessment course, as well as construction or architectural professionals and facility managers, this manual navigates the complexities of using a green building diagnostic tool such as LEED O+M towards greater environmental literacy" [Publisher]


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LEED materials : a resource guide to green building
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ISBN: 9781568988856 1568988850 Year: 2010 Publisher: New York, NY : Princeton Architectural Press,

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Since its launch in 1993 by the nonprofit U.S. Green Building Council, the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program has become the standard measure of sustainability for buildings worldwide. Successfully reaching one of four LEED certification levels-Certified, Silver, Gold, or Platinum-requires specific point totals, which differ among building types. Getting certified, in addition to altruistic benefits, allows building owners to take advantage of a growing number of state and local government incentives. The menu of potential points available for various practices ranges from installing bike racks on-site to documenting the source of the iron ore used in anyconstruction steel. As any architect or developer can attest, navigating this complex system of required prerequisites and credits can be maddening. It may be good to be green, but it's still far from easy. An architect's knowledge of materials can make or break a building's rating. Though LEED's performance-based criteriaexclude individual materials and products from earning points toward certification, their specific use can. Apply a material in the wrong situation and you may not get credit for it. Fortunately, with a little insider knowledge, you can also use one material to get credit in two, three, or even more areas. LEED Materials is packed with critical information on nearly two hundred materials, products, and services. Organized in the Construction Specifications Institute (CSI) MasterFormat-industry standard in building contracts-this highly visual guide makes sure your material choices and uses will maximize your LEED credits. LEED Materials includes a foreword by Steven Winter, former chairman of the U.S. Green Building Council.

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