GREEN BUILDING ACTUAL FINAL PAPER UPDATED
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Commercial base load - ✔✔1) Lighting,2) computers and equipment,3) water
heating, 4) refrigeration
✔✔Federal appliance standards - ✔✔Most effective federal policy for saving energy
federal standard appliances include: refrigerators, central air conditioners, room air
conditioners, clothes washers, dishwasher, ceiling fans, water heaters, boilers and
furnaces, lighting, dehumidifiers
✔✔Energy Guide label - ✔✔Label providing an estimate of the products in your energy
consumption or energy efficiency
✔✔Energy Star - ✔✔Introduced in 1992 roughly 15 to 25 percent more efficient then
federal appliance standards
✔✔Efficacy - ✔✔Lighting efficiency the amount of light produced Lumines her amount
of electricity used expressed Lumines / wats
✔✔Color rendering index , CRI - ✔✔How accurate colors appear under the light source
Sun light has a CRI of 100
✔✔CRI index - ✔✔100=Perfect= natural sunlight at noon, 90-100=very high=
incandescent, halogens 80-89= high= CFL, some newer LED,70-79= medium= led, 10-
69= low= mercury vapor, low pressure sodium
✔✔Temperature - ✔✔Determines whether it appears warm or cool
✔✔Warm light - ✔✔Promotes relaxation: residential settings, waiting room
✔✔Cool light - ✔✔Promotes concentration: offices and factories
✔✔improve lighting - ✔✔replace low with high efficacy light with good quality, reduce
ambient light have more task lighting, right fixture to right application and task, energy
star, turn off lights, use control light sensors
✔✔Conventional storage water heating - ✔✔Electricity natural gas or propane water in
tank,, electricity 95 percent efficiency natural gas 65 percent efficient electricity more
expensive than natural gas
✔✔Tankless - ✔✔Instantaneous or demand water heater very efficient no standby loss
✔✔Standby losses - ✔✔Heat that escapes through insulation jacket of the unit
, ✔✔heat pump - ✔✔200% efficiency, emits cool, dehumidified air, used for space
cooling
✔✔Water heating improvements - ✔✔Stall low flow fixtures, higher factory insulation
value or insulated jacket, insulate hot water plumbing lines
✔✔USGBC LEED - ✔✔Focus on site selection, water conservation, energy efficiency,
materials and resources, indoor environmental quality
✔✔Building science - ✔✔The study of the interaction between a building and its
environment in order to optimize its performance from a comfort, energy, durability and
maintenance standpoint
✔✔Building Science Foundation - ✔✔Heat loss, heat gain, ventilation
✔✔Heat loss - ✔✔Occurs from inside to outside. Heat must be added to the interior of
the building to maintain comfort
✔✔Heat gain - ✔✔The courage from the outside to inside and from within. excess must
be removed from the building to maintain comfort in addition excess moisture must be
removed from the air to control humidity
✔✔ventilation - ✔✔Remove polluted indoor air and replace it with outside fresh air
✔✔Conduction - ✔✔Transfer of heat between adjacent molecules in a material
✔✔Convection - ✔✔Transfer of heat by the movement of liquid and gases
✔✔Radiation - ✔✔Transfer of heat by electromagnetic waves through empty space
✔✔Convection loop - ✔✔Warm fluids rise and cold fluids sink
✔✔Black body - ✔✔Stores radiation perfectly to admit radiation
✔✔Heat sink - ✔✔Transfers heat from a solid surface example computer processor
good conduction occurs, convection is increased, radiation enhance
✔✔Thermal conductivity - ✔✔K equals rate at which material conducts heat
✔✔U factor - ✔✔Measures the amount of thermal conductivity through a Material at a
certain thickness. u factor 1 equals 1 BTU per hour passes through. Lower is better
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Commercial base load - ✔✔1) Lighting,2) computers and equipment,3) water
heating, 4) refrigeration
✔✔Federal appliance standards - ✔✔Most effective federal policy for saving energy
federal standard appliances include: refrigerators, central air conditioners, room air
conditioners, clothes washers, dishwasher, ceiling fans, water heaters, boilers and
furnaces, lighting, dehumidifiers
✔✔Energy Guide label - ✔✔Label providing an estimate of the products in your energy
consumption or energy efficiency
✔✔Energy Star - ✔✔Introduced in 1992 roughly 15 to 25 percent more efficient then
federal appliance standards
✔✔Efficacy - ✔✔Lighting efficiency the amount of light produced Lumines her amount
of electricity used expressed Lumines / wats
✔✔Color rendering index , CRI - ✔✔How accurate colors appear under the light source
Sun light has a CRI of 100
✔✔CRI index - ✔✔100=Perfect= natural sunlight at noon, 90-100=very high=
incandescent, halogens 80-89= high= CFL, some newer LED,70-79= medium= led, 10-
69= low= mercury vapor, low pressure sodium
✔✔Temperature - ✔✔Determines whether it appears warm or cool
✔✔Warm light - ✔✔Promotes relaxation: residential settings, waiting room
✔✔Cool light - ✔✔Promotes concentration: offices and factories
✔✔improve lighting - ✔✔replace low with high efficacy light with good quality, reduce
ambient light have more task lighting, right fixture to right application and task, energy
star, turn off lights, use control light sensors
✔✔Conventional storage water heating - ✔✔Electricity natural gas or propane water in
tank,, electricity 95 percent efficiency natural gas 65 percent efficient electricity more
expensive than natural gas
✔✔Tankless - ✔✔Instantaneous or demand water heater very efficient no standby loss
✔✔Standby losses - ✔✔Heat that escapes through insulation jacket of the unit
, ✔✔heat pump - ✔✔200% efficiency, emits cool, dehumidified air, used for space
cooling
✔✔Water heating improvements - ✔✔Stall low flow fixtures, higher factory insulation
value or insulated jacket, insulate hot water plumbing lines
✔✔USGBC LEED - ✔✔Focus on site selection, water conservation, energy efficiency,
materials and resources, indoor environmental quality
✔✔Building science - ✔✔The study of the interaction between a building and its
environment in order to optimize its performance from a comfort, energy, durability and
maintenance standpoint
✔✔Building Science Foundation - ✔✔Heat loss, heat gain, ventilation
✔✔Heat loss - ✔✔Occurs from inside to outside. Heat must be added to the interior of
the building to maintain comfort
✔✔Heat gain - ✔✔The courage from the outside to inside and from within. excess must
be removed from the building to maintain comfort in addition excess moisture must be
removed from the air to control humidity
✔✔ventilation - ✔✔Remove polluted indoor air and replace it with outside fresh air
✔✔Conduction - ✔✔Transfer of heat between adjacent molecules in a material
✔✔Convection - ✔✔Transfer of heat by the movement of liquid and gases
✔✔Radiation - ✔✔Transfer of heat by electromagnetic waves through empty space
✔✔Convection loop - ✔✔Warm fluids rise and cold fluids sink
✔✔Black body - ✔✔Stores radiation perfectly to admit radiation
✔✔Heat sink - ✔✔Transfers heat from a solid surface example computer processor
good conduction occurs, convection is increased, radiation enhance
✔✔Thermal conductivity - ✔✔K equals rate at which material conducts heat
✔✔U factor - ✔✔Measures the amount of thermal conductivity through a Material at a
certain thickness. u factor 1 equals 1 BTU per hour passes through. Lower is better
