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Understanding WELL & Air Flashcards

1
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What are the 4 tenants of WELL?
(Something each feature meets - science)

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1) Evidence-based
2) Verifiable
3) Implementable
4) Presented for outside impot

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What are the 6 principles of WELL?
(What WELL is founded on)

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  1. Equitable - Aims to benefit a variety of people
  2. Global - Proposes interventions that are feasible throughout the world
  3. Evidence-based - draws upon research and validated by experts
  4. Technically robust - defines industry best practices
  5. Customer focused
  6. Resilient - keeps pace with reserach
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What are the 10 concepts of WELL (architecture of the rating system)?

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Air
Water
Nourishment
Light
Movement
Thermal Comfort
Sound
Materials
Mind
Community

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What are the project types?

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  1. Owner Occupied - project owned or leased by the project owner and are regular occupants
  2. WELL Core - majority of occupants are not affiliated with the project owner.
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What are the feature applicability and scoring types?
(What type of spaces can be tested)

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  • whole building
  • extent of developer buildout
  • leased spaces
  • non-leased spaces
  • building management staff
  • direct staff
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What percentage of WELL core project must be available for testing?

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2.5%

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How many dwellings must there be for multifamily residential projects to peruse WELL?

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At least 5

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Is performance testing within dwelling units for precondition features required?

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No

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Define “regularly occupied space”

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Areas inside the project where a particular individual normally spends at least one continuous hour, or, cumulatively, at least two hours per day such as offices, conference rooms, bedrooms, and calssrooms

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Define “occupiable space”

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Spaces that can be occupied for any task or activity including transition areas or balconies but excludes storage spaces and equipment rooms.

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Define “occupant”

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any individual within the boundary

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Define “regular occupant”

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an individual who spends at least 30 hours per month across at least five days within the project
boundary (

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Under what conditions can a single project encompass multiple distinct structures that are not physically connected?

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  • All buildings must be under the same ownership and management.
  • The buildings must be located adjacent to each other (i.e., there is no land unaffiliated with the project
    intervening), and the project boundary must encompass all outdoor space affiliated with the project.
  • The buildings must be related to each other, and the project name must accurately describe the group of
    buildings.
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What are annotated documents and provide 3 examples?

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Refer to existing project documents that are
- Design Documents
- Construction documents
- operations schedule
- policies

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What group reviews the WELL submission?

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Green Business Certification Inc. (GBCI)

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Who are the appropriate professions who can provide Letters of Assurance (LOA)?

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Architect
Contractors
Owner
MEP Engineers

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Define “Intent Stage Documents” and what it represents.

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refer to planned conditions or operations. documents are created to represent
early-stage design or plans for the development of a program, policy, or operations protocol.

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Define “Implementation Stage Documents”?

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to construction/as-built drawings or implemented programs. represent the final project

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Define “Alternative Adherence Paths (AAP)”. What must the feature meet?

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Projects may submit an Alternative Adherence Path proposal to IWBI to replace any requirement in WELL. Fees
apply.

still meet the feature intent and are supported by cited scientific, medical and industry research.

20
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Define “Innovation Features” and what do they need to address?

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These are used when projects wish to receive credit in WELL for pursuing intents and
strategies that do not have a precedent in an existing WELL feature

address a novel concept or strategy not already included in WELL or achieve results above and beyond the
existing requirements in a WELL Feature

21
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How many AAPs may a project submit?

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3

22
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How many innovations may a project submit?

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5

23
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Define “WELL Portfolio Score”

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The score is the weighted average of the points achieved across all projects within the portfolio.
Scores are weighted by the actual or expected number of occupants within the project

24
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For the feature “Air” - how many preconditions and optimization are there?

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4 preconditions
10 optimizations

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Air Quality
1. precondition or optimization
2. Intent ?
3. Issue?
5. Solutions

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  1. Precondition
  2. Provide a basic level of indoor air quality that contributes to the health and well-being of building users.
  3. Exposure to air pollutants has been shown to increase the risk of respiratory and cardiovascular diseases
  4. The World Health Organization and Environmental protection agency have established established permissible levels for such pollutants. Along with measuring, continuing to monitor pollutants in regularly occupied spaces.
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Why does WELL address air?

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People spend approximately 90% of their time in enclosed spaces. Inhalation to pollutants can lead to various health problems.

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What are the most common types of air pollutants?

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Combustion sources such as candles, tobacco, stoves, furnaces. These sources release dangerous chemicals like carbon monoxide and other small particles into the air.

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What are volatile organic compounds (VOC)?

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gases that are emitted into the air from products or processes

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Smoke Free Environment
1. Precondition or optimization
2.intent?
3. Issue
4. Solutions

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  1. Precondition
  2. Deter smoking, minimize occupant exposure to secondhand smoke and reduce smoke pollution.
  3. Exposure to tobacco smoke has continued to detrimentally affect the health of both smokers and those
    exposed to secondhand smoke
  4. Prohibit smoking indoor and outdoor smoking. If smoking occurs outside, provide signage dictating that it can’t occur within 25 feet of any entrance or operable window.
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Ventilation Design
1. precondition or optimization
2. Intent ?
3. Issue?
4. Solutions

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  1. Precondition
  2. Minimize indoor air quality issues through the provision of adequate ventilation.
    3.. Poorly ventilated spaces contribute to symptoms, such as headache, fatigue, dizziness, nausea, cough,
    sneezing, shortness of breath and eye, nose, throat and skin irritation
  3. For mechanically ventilated spaces, ensuring system are meet the requirements of ASHRAE, EN 16798-1, AS 1668.2-2012, or CIBSE Guide A: Environmental Design. For naturally ventilated spaces they should meet Natural Ventilation Procedure in ASHRAE 62.1-2010.
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What is Sick Building Syndrome (SBS)?

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Poorly ventilated building systems can contribute to symptoms such as headache, eye and throat irritation, shortness of breath.

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Construction Pollution Management
1.precondition or optimization
2. intent?
3. Issue
5. Solutions

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  1. Precondition
  2. Minimize the introduction of construction-related pollutants into indoor air, remediate construction-related
    indoor air contamination
  3. Increased emissions of PM in the vicinity of construction sites are positively correlated with people’s
    suffering from respiratory diseases. Building construction and renovations are primarily a source of coarse particulate
    matter, but they are also a source of airborne ultrafine particles
  4. Air duct protection, moisture and dust management, filter replacement
    and proper equipment selection are strategies that improve indoor air quality, by limiting the exposure to an intense
    contamination period
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Enhanced Air Quality
1. precondition or optimization
2. Intent?
3. Issue?
4. Solutions

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  1. Optimization
  2. Encourage and recognize buildings with enhanced levels of indoor air quality that promote the health and
    well-being of people
  3. quality of the air people breathe indoors directly impacts their health and well-being and constitutes one of the most important aspects of buildings that can support human health
  4. Indoor air quality can be properly managed primarily through source control strategies, passive and active
    building design and operation strategies and human behavior intervention. Projects can comply with particulate matter thersholds
34
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Name the 4 preconditions for Air.

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1) Air Quality
2) Smoke Free Environment
3) Ventilation Design
4) Construction Pollution Management

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Enhanced Ventilation Design
1. Precondition or optimization
2. intent of the feature?
3. Issue
4. Solutions

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  1. Optimization
  2. Expel internally generated pollutants and improve air quality in the breathing zone through an increased supply
    of outdoor air or increased ventilation efficiency
  3. Since it is easy to detect CO2, CO2 serve as a proxy for other indoor pollutants. Lower CO2 means symptoms of sick building syndrome are also decreased. majority of ventilation standards specify ventilation rates and other measures intended to provide indoor air quality that is merely “acceptable” to building users and reduces the risk of adverse health effects
  4. Increasing air supply by exceeding our door air supply rates. or a demand-controlled ventilation system that regulates air ventilation to keep CO2 levels down.
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Operable Windows
1. precondition or optimization
2. Intent?
3. Issue
4. Solutions

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  1. Optimization
  2. Increase the supply of high-quality outdoor air and promote a connection to the outdoor environment, by
    encouraging building users to open windows when outdoor air quality is acceptable
  3. When outdoor air quality is favorable, opening windows
    can provide a supply of outdoor air and lower levels of indoor air contaminants
  4. At least 75% of regularly occupied spaces have operable windows that provide access to outdoor air. Managing window use by monitoring outdoor levels of particulate matter temperature, and humidity.
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Air quality monitoring and awareness
1. precondition or optimization
2. intent?
3. Issue?
4. Solutions

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  1. Optimization
  2. Monitor indoor air quality issues, as well as inform and educate individuals on the quality of the indoor
    environment.
  3. Concentrations of indoor and outdoor pollutants fluctuate greatly depending upon many factors such as indoor cooking, and urban rush hour.
  4. Project deploys a monitoring system that measures particulate matter, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, ozone, and nitrogen dioxide. This data should be made available to all occupants.
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Pollution Infiltration Management
1. precondition or optimization
2. Intent?
3. Issue?
4. Solutions

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  1. Optimization
  2. Minimize the introduction of pollutants into indoor air through the building envelope and at building entrances.
  3. Indoor air quality and thermal comfort can be compromised by leaks and gaps that break the buildings’ air barrier. This can lead to conditions such as mold growth and polluted air.
  4. Ensure all entrances to the building are composed of grilles, gates, or rollout maps. Also ensure that building entry vestibule has two typically closed doorways or revolving entrance doors. These should also be cleaned at least once/week .
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Combustion Minimization
1. Precondition or Optimization
2. Intent?
3. Issue
4. Solutions

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  1. Optimization
  2. Reduce human exposure to combustion-related air pollution from heating and transportation sources
    3.. Inefficient heating practices, cooking or other combustion
    activities produce high levels of indoor air pollution that include a range of health-damaging pollutants, such as fine
    particles, nitrogen dioxide and carbon monoxide
  3. Ensure combustion based fireplaces, or heaters are not used in occupiable spaces. Equipment used for heating and cooling are electric or comply with air quality districts.
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Source Separation
1. precondition or optimization
2. intent
3. Issue
4. Solutions

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  1. Optimization
  2. Preserve indoor air quality and maximize olfactory comfort in occupied spaces through the isolation and
    proper ventilation
  3. Air pollution can be created from many indoor sources, including cleaning products, office equipment and humid environments
  4. Ensure bathrooms, kitchens, rooms for chemical storage, and rooms with high volume printers/copiers are separated from all adjacent occupied spaces. For commercial kitchens, ensure canopy hoods have panels and comply with ASHRAE.
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Air Filtration
1. Precondition or optimization
2. Intent?
3. Issue
4. Solutions

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  1. Optimization
  2. Reduce indoor and outdoor airborne contaminants through air filtration
  3. Exposure to particulate matter (PM) is associated with many negative health outcomes
  4. Selection and installation of adequate media filters is one of the key mechanisms for minimizing exposure
    to outdoor and indoor air pollution
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Enhanced Air Supply
1. precondition or optimization
2. intent of the feature?
3. Issue?
4. Solutions

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  1. Optimization
  2. Mitigate risks from indoor contamination and pollution sources, such as infectious disease particles and
    volatile organic compounds (VOC
    3.Building materials, furnishings, fabrics, personal care products, adhesives all emit VOCs which lead to sick building syndrome4. supplying spaces with 100% outdoor air or the use of carbon filters and UV to treat circulated air
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Microbe and Mold Control
1. Precondition or optimization
2. Intent
3. Issue
4. Solution

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  1. Optimization
  2. Reduce mold and bacteria growth within the building mechanical system.
  3. Mold is prone to grow on cooling cools which may shed into the building’s air supply. Exposure to mold has been linked to health problems.
  4. Periodic inspections and maintenance of cooling systems and the use of ultraviolet lights

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