LEED GA Accelerator | Video Lessons | Practice Exams | Ebook

Explore how the built environment drives the world's footprint and how green building design can reduce energy use, CO2 emissions, and waste while boosting user satisfaction and cost savings.

Distinguish accreditation from certification in the Leed process, cover Leed green associate and ap with specialty, and explain maintenance, prerequisites, points, and Leed online for project certification.

Review key terms for the exam: life cycle assessment from cradle to grave, lifecycle costs including hard and soft costs, and the triple bottom line: people, planet, and profit.

Explore LEED for neighborhood development location as a credit. Avoid inappropriate sites, reduce vehicle distance traveled, and enhance livability and health by encouraging daily physical activity.

Encourage development in constrained areas to enhance surrounding health; choose infill in historic districts, redevelop brownfields with remediation, or invest in economically depressed neighborhoods to revitalize communities.

Prioritize sites within a 400 meter radius of densely populated areas and seek diverse uses within an 800 meter radius to boost walkability, access to amenities, and public health.

Promote bicycling and public health by meeting bicycle facilities: storage for occupants and visitors, changing rooms, and bicycle network within 200 yards of school, employment centre, or bus stop.

Open space credits require at least 30% of the site, with 25% vegetated, to foster social interaction, passive recreation, and physical activity; design with benches, visual gardens, and sport carts.

Learn site assessment, erosion and sedimentation control, habitat protection, open space with vegetation, rainwater management, heat island reduction, and light pollution reduction to improve ecological and social value.

Learn indoor water use reduction in LEED GA by meeting a 20% prerequisite and 25% credit with high-efficiency toilets, low flow faucets, and rainwater or treated wastewater for non-potable uses.

Install permanent water meters to measure potable water use and earn credit by applying submeters to two or more subsystems, irrigation, indoor plumbing, domestic hot water, and rainwater or greywater.

Minimize potable water use indoors and outdoors by prioritizing efficiency first, then exploring alternative sources like greywater and green water, with metering and fixtures considerations for the Green Associate exam.

Install building level energy meters to measure total energy consumption, then use submeters for HVAC, lighting, and end uses over 10% of annual consumption to manage energy and identify savings.

Explore commissioning goals, fundamental versus enhanced commissioning, baseline energy performance referencing ASHRAE 90.1 2010, and topics like energy metering, demand response, renewable energy, and refrigerant management.

Explore practice questions to prepare for the LEED GA exam, covering fundamental commissioning, demand response, and energy efficiency strategies, including RECs, ASHRAE 90.1 baselines, and CFC phaseout plans.

Establish dedicated storage for recyclables—paper, glass, plastics, metals—and safe collection of at least two hazardous wastes, accessible to all occupants and waste haulers to meet LEED prerequisites.

Develop a plan to identify waste streams and set diversion goals, train staff to separate waste on site, and divert at least 50% of construction waste from landfills through recycling or reuse.

Identify responsibly sourced raw materials and minimize substances by evaluating suppliers with documentation, extended producer responsibility, recycled content, FSC certification, and chemical inventories tracked throughout construction.

Explore strategies for managing materials and resources in construction, including waste reduction, recycling, lifecycle analysis, sustainable purchases, and topics like recyclables, EPDs, and raw materials sourcing.

Learn how low emitting materials reduce VOC emissions to improve indoor air quality, with only interior products counting toward this credit and materials meeting VOC limits and low formaldehyde standards.

Develop an indoor air quality management plan for construction and occupancy phases to minimize issues, follow Smacna guidelines, protect absorptive materials from moisture, use filtration systems, replace filters before occupancy.

Provide quality outdoor views for at least 75% of occupied spaces with glazing sightlines to vegetation or water within three times the head height, and meet ASHRAE 2011 acoustic requirements.

Identify and pursue regional priority credits to address geographically specific environmental, social equity, and public health priorities, earning up to four of six USGBC regional priority credits.

Explore earning the LEED innovation credit through adopting an innovative strategy, pursuing a pilot credit, or exemplary performance, and note regional priorities defined by USGBC, six credits, and four-point limit.

Engage with practice questions to prepare for the Little Green Associate Exam, covering LEED credits, regional priority credits, prerequisites, and minimum program requirements.