Green Building Design Exam 1 Questions
And Answers |Latest 2025 | Guaranteed Pass
Xeriscaping - Answer✔landscaping strategy focusing on drought-tolerant native and adapted
species (black eyed susans near us)
reclaimed water - Answer✔water from a waste water treatment plant
how much time do you spend indoors? - Answer✔ppl spend 90% of their time indoors
U.S. Building Impacts water use - Answer✔12%
U.S. Building Impacts CO2 emissions - Answer✔39%
U.S. Building Impacts waste output - Answer✔65%
U.S. Building Impacts electricity consumption - Answer✔71%
Worldwide Buildings account for - Answer✔-17% fresh water withdrawls
-25% wood harvest
-33% co2 emissions
-40% material and nrg use
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-45% in china
stakeholders of construction - Answer✔-owners
-architects
-contractors
-city/state/federal
Design-Bid-Build (DBB) - Answer✔most common 60% of buildings
Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) - Answer✔newest form of project delivery (<1% of buildings)
-continuous involvement of primary parties throughout design and construction
rate of rain forest loss - Answer✔1 acre per second
What percentage will be lost of all species by 2030 if we continue exhausting our natural
resources? - Answer✔20%
IPCC - Answer✔Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
found that climate can suddenly flip
ozone depletion - Answer✔thinning of the ozone layer
-hole over antarctica found in 1985 and doubled by 1999
-should be restored by 2050
negative environmental consequences to deforestation - Answer✔biodiversity loss, global
warming, soil erosion, albedo
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