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Cert Prep: LEED Green Associate

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Overview

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Prepare for the LEED Green Associate exam, which gives you credentials that demonstrate core competency in green building design, construction, and operations.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • LEED Green Associate effective exam preparation
  • What you should know
1. LEED Green Associate: Overview
  • LEED Green Associate exam overview
2. Environmental Impact of Buildings
  • LEED impact categories
3. Integrative Process
  • Integrative process overview
  • Phases of the integrative process
  • Integrative process in the LEED rating system
4. Location and Transportation
  • Location and transportation overview
  • Smart growth vs. urban sprawl
  • Unpreferred locations
  • Preferred locations
  • Alternative transportation strategies
  • LEED neighborhood development
5. Sustainable Sites
  • Sustainable sites overview
  • Sustainable site construction strategies
  • Sustainable site design strategies: Site assessment
  • Sustainable site design strategies: Open spaces and habitats
  • Sustainable site design strategies: Rainwater management
  • Sustainable site design strategies: Heat island reduction
  • Sustainable site design strategies: Lighting pollution reduction
6. Water Efficiency
  • Water efficiency overview
  • Outdoor water use reduction
  • Indoor water use reduction
  • Cooling tower water use
  • Water metering
7. Energy and Atmosphere
  • Energy and Atmosphere overview
  • Energy consumption reduction
  • Building commissioning process
  • Renewable energy production, green power, and carbon offsets
  • Energy metering
  • Demand Response
  • Refrigerant management
8. Materials and Resources
  • Materials and Resources overview
  • Waste management
  • Building product disclosure and optimization: Disclosure
  • Building product disclosure and optimization: Responsible sourcing of materials
9. Environmental Quality
  • Indoor Environmental Quality overview
  • Indoor air quality management design strategies
  • Enhanced indoor air quality strategies
  • Indoor air quality management during construction
  • Occupant comfort
  • Lighting, views, and acoustics
  • Indoor Environmental Quality practices during operations
10. Innovation and Regional Priority
  • Innovation
  • Regional priority
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Fulya Kocak Gin

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