LEED v4 AP BD+C Exam 2025/2026
Exam Questions and Correct Answers |
New Update
IN Credit: Innovation Requirements - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔To achieve all 5 innovation
points, a project team must achieve at least one pilot credit, one innovation credit,
and no more than two exemplary performance credits.
IN Credit: LEED Accredited Professional Requirements - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔At least
one principal participant of the project team must be a LEED Accredited
Professional (AP) with a specialty appropriate for the project.
RP Credit: Regional Priority Requirements - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Earn up to 4 of the 6
Regional Priority credits. A database is listed on USGBC's website.
SS Prerequisite: Environmental Site Assessment Requirements - Applies to
Schools and Healthcare only - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Conduct a Phase 1 Environmental
,Site Assessment as described in ASTM E1527-05 to determine if environmental
contamination exists. If contamination is suspected, conduct a Phase II
Environmental Site Assessment. If a site is contaminated, remediate the site to
meet local, state, or national environmental protection agency region residential
standards.
SS Credit: Site Assessment - Requirements - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Complete and
document a site survey or assessment which includes the following information:
topography, hydrology, climate, vegetation, soils, human use, human health
effects. The survey or assessment should demonstrate the relationship between the
site features and topics listed above and how these features influenced the project
design; give the reasons for not addressing any of those topics.
SS Credit: Open Space Requirements - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Provide outdoor space
greater than or equal to 30% of the total site area (including the building footprint).
A minimum of 25% of the outdoor space must be vegetated or have overhead
vegetated canopy. For projects that achieve a density of 1.5 floor-area-ratio (FAR),
and are physically accessible, extensive or intensive vegetated roofs can be used
towards the minimum 25% vegetation requirements. Wetlands or naturally
designed ponds may count as open space if the side slope gradient average is 1:4 or
less and are vegetated.
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SS Credit: Rainwater Management - Option 1 Requirement - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Percentile of Rainfall Events: Path 1. 95th Percentile - manage on site the
runoff from the developed site for the 95th percentile of regional or local rainfall
events using low-impact development. Path 2. 98th Percentile - achieve path 1 but
for 98th percentile. 3. Path 3. Zero lot line projects only - 85th percentile. Applies
to zero lot line properties with a FAR of 1.5. Manage on site the runoff from the
developed site for the 85th percentile of regional or local rainfall events, using LID
and green infrastructure.
SS Credit: Rainwater Management - Option 2 Requirement - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Natural Land Cover Conditions - Manage on site the annual increase in runoff
volume for the natural land cover condition to the post developed condition.
SS Credit: Heat Island Reduction - Option 1 Requirement - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Nonroof and Roof (area of nonroof measure / 0.5) + (area of high reflectance
roof / 0.75) is greater than or equal to the total site paving area and the total roof
area. Nonroof measures - use the existing plant materials or install plants that
provide shade over paving areas on the site within 10 years or planting, provide
shade with structures covered by energy generation systems, provide shade with
architectural devices or structures that have a three-year aged solar reflectance
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, (SR) value of at least 0.28, vegetated structures, paving materials with a three-year
aged SR value of at least 0.28, use an open-grid pavement system.
SS Credit: Heat Island Reduction - Option 2 Requirement - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Parking under cover - place a minimum of 75% of parking spaces under cover.
Any roof used to shade or cover parking must (1) have a 3-year aged SRI of at
least 32, (2) be a vegetated roof, or (3) be covered by energy generated systems.
SS Credit: Light Pollution Reduction Requirements - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Meet
uplight and light trespass requirements, using either the backlight-uplight-glare
(BUG) method (option 1) or the calculation method (option 2). Meet these
requirements for all exterior luminaries located inside the project boundary and
meet the internally illuminated signage requirement.
SS Credit: Site Master Plan Requirements (applies to Schools only) - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔The project must achieve at least four of the following using the associated
calculation methods. The achieved credits must then be recalculated using the data
from the master plan: LT Credit High Priority Site; SS Credit Site Development -
Protect or Restore; SS Credit Open Space; SS Credit Rainwater Management; SS
Credit Heat Island Reduction; SS Credit Light Pollution Reduction.
Exam Questions and Correct Answers |
New Update
IN Credit: Innovation Requirements - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔To achieve all 5 innovation
points, a project team must achieve at least one pilot credit, one innovation credit,
and no more than two exemplary performance credits.
IN Credit: LEED Accredited Professional Requirements - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔At least
one principal participant of the project team must be a LEED Accredited
Professional (AP) with a specialty appropriate for the project.
RP Credit: Regional Priority Requirements - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Earn up to 4 of the 6
Regional Priority credits. A database is listed on USGBC's website.
SS Prerequisite: Environmental Site Assessment Requirements - Applies to
Schools and Healthcare only - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Conduct a Phase 1 Environmental
,Site Assessment as described in ASTM E1527-05 to determine if environmental
contamination exists. If contamination is suspected, conduct a Phase II
Environmental Site Assessment. If a site is contaminated, remediate the site to
meet local, state, or national environmental protection agency region residential
standards.
SS Credit: Site Assessment - Requirements - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Complete and
document a site survey or assessment which includes the following information:
topography, hydrology, climate, vegetation, soils, human use, human health
effects. The survey or assessment should demonstrate the relationship between the
site features and topics listed above and how these features influenced the project
design; give the reasons for not addressing any of those topics.
SS Credit: Open Space Requirements - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Provide outdoor space
greater than or equal to 30% of the total site area (including the building footprint).
A minimum of 25% of the outdoor space must be vegetated or have overhead
vegetated canopy. For projects that achieve a density of 1.5 floor-area-ratio (FAR),
and are physically accessible, extensive or intensive vegetated roofs can be used
towards the minimum 25% vegetation requirements. Wetlands or naturally
designed ponds may count as open space if the side slope gradient average is 1:4 or
less and are vegetated.
, 3
SS Credit: Rainwater Management - Option 1 Requirement - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Percentile of Rainfall Events: Path 1. 95th Percentile - manage on site the
runoff from the developed site for the 95th percentile of regional or local rainfall
events using low-impact development. Path 2. 98th Percentile - achieve path 1 but
for 98th percentile. 3. Path 3. Zero lot line projects only - 85th percentile. Applies
to zero lot line properties with a FAR of 1.5. Manage on site the runoff from the
developed site for the 85th percentile of regional or local rainfall events, using LID
and green infrastructure.
SS Credit: Rainwater Management - Option 2 Requirement - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Natural Land Cover Conditions - Manage on site the annual increase in runoff
volume for the natural land cover condition to the post developed condition.
SS Credit: Heat Island Reduction - Option 1 Requirement - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Nonroof and Roof (area of nonroof measure / 0.5) + (area of high reflectance
roof / 0.75) is greater than or equal to the total site paving area and the total roof
area. Nonroof measures - use the existing plant materials or install plants that
provide shade over paving areas on the site within 10 years or planting, provide
shade with structures covered by energy generation systems, provide shade with
architectural devices or structures that have a three-year aged solar reflectance
COPYRIGHT©PROFFKERRYMARTIN 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE.
PRIVACY STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
, (SR) value of at least 0.28, vegetated structures, paving materials with a three-year
aged SR value of at least 0.28, use an open-grid pavement system.
SS Credit: Heat Island Reduction - Option 2 Requirement - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Parking under cover - place a minimum of 75% of parking spaces under cover.
Any roof used to shade or cover parking must (1) have a 3-year aged SRI of at
least 32, (2) be a vegetated roof, or (3) be covered by energy generated systems.
SS Credit: Light Pollution Reduction Requirements - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Meet
uplight and light trespass requirements, using either the backlight-uplight-glare
(BUG) method (option 1) or the calculation method (option 2). Meet these
requirements for all exterior luminaries located inside the project boundary and
meet the internally illuminated signage requirement.
SS Credit: Site Master Plan Requirements (applies to Schools only) - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔The project must achieve at least four of the following using the associated
calculation methods. The achieved credits must then be recalculated using the data
from the master plan: LT Credit High Priority Site; SS Credit Site Development -
Protect or Restore; SS Credit Open Space; SS Credit Rainwater Management; SS
Credit Heat Island Reduction; SS Credit Light Pollution Reduction.
