Materials and Resources Flashcards
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What LEED categories contain standards related to VOC emissions?
Materials & Resources (MR) and Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ)
What is ISO 14021?
The ISO 14021 series standards, Environmental Labels and Declaration, are communication tools that convey information on environmental aspects of a product or service to the market. This standard is used for recycled materials to label their pre and/or post-consumer content.
What does Certification by FOREST STEWARDSHIP COUNCIL mean?
Certification means forest managers have adopted environmentally and socially responsible forest management practices. And certification allows companies to manufacture and sell products made from sustainable wood.
What is Chain-of-Custody (CoC) Certification?
Chain of Custody refers to chronological documentation or paper trail. CoC is important in LEED when dealing with certified wood. Companies that process, manufacture, and/or sell products made of certified wood can earn CoC certification by having an audit done of their documentation. This certification shows the FSC that the name and logo are being used correctly.
What is meant by LIFE-CYCLE ASSESSMENT?
A Life-Cycle assessment is an analysis of the environmental aspects and potential impacts associated with a product, process, or service.
What is Green Seal used for?
Green Seal is an independent nonprofit organization that identifies and promotes products that are environmentally preferable. Several of its standards measure VOC limits in products.
What type of products are related to the Green Seal standard?
VOC materials and Green Cleaning
What is life cycle costing?
Evaluates a product’s economic performance
What is life cycle assessment?
The investigation and valuation of the environmental impacts of a given product or service caused or necessitated by its existence.
When should life cycle assessment be used?
When considering the product’s long-term environmental impact over the product’s lifetime.
Why should you use life cycle costing?
When there exists project alternatives that fulfill the same performance requirements, but differ with respect to initial costs and operating costs. The comparison can help maximize net savings.
What is a LIFE-CYCLE COST Analysis?
Life-cycle cost analysis calculates expected future operating, maintenance, and replacement costs of designs and features used to assist owners in developing a realistic design and budget estimate.
What is embodied energy?
The available energy that was used in the work of making a product. Embodied energy is an accounting methodology which aims to find the sum total of the energy necessary for an entire product lifecycle. This lifecycle includes raw material extraction, transport, manufacture, assembly, installation, disassembly, deconstruction and/or decomposition.
What is postconsumer recycled content?
It is the percentage of material in a product that was consumer waste. The recycled material was generated by household, commercial, industrial, or institutional end-users and can no longer be used for its intended purpose. Postconsumer is just that, material recycled after being used by the consumer.
Reusing an existing building can help earn credit in what category?
Materials & Resources
What is RECYCLED content?
Recycled content is the proportion, by mass, of pre-consumer or post-consumer recycled material in a product (ISO 14021).
What is COMMINGLED RECYCLING?
Commingled recycling accepts a wide range of recyclable materials.
Copyright GBES - intended for use by the purchaser.
This allows materials to be collected in one bin, or location, before being sent to a recycling facility for separation. This type of recycling takes up less space and has better participation from occupants.
What is waste diversion?
Reducing the amount of recyclable material being thrown away and ultimately wasted by disposal in the landfill. Many materials have uses or resources that can be recaptured through recycling.
What are examples of PRE-CONSUMER recycled content?
Planer shavings, sawdust, bagasse, walnut shells, culls, trimmed materials, over issue publications, and obsolete inventories.
What are examples of content that is excluded from PRE-CONSUMER recycled content?
Rework, regrind, or scrap materials capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated them.
What are examples of POSTCONSUMER recycled content?
Construction and demolition debris, materials collected through recycling programs, discarded products, (e.g., furniture, cabinetry, decking), and landscaping waste (e.g., leaves, grass clippings, tree trimmings)
RECYCLED CONTENT is defined in accordance with what document?
ISO 14021 - International Organization of Standards document.
What is PRE- CONSUMER recycled content?
Pre-consumer recycled content is formerly known as postindustrial content, is a percentage of material in a product that is recycled from manufacturing waste. Since the material is never sold to the consumer, it is pre-consumer material.
What type of recycled content is a material that contains recycled newspaper?
Post-consumer recycled content
