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Sustainable Design Practices Flashcards

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  1. An infrastructure project team conducts a community needs assessment at the outset. Under Envision, this activity primarily supports which category?

    Answer: Quality of Life

    Quality of Life credits reward understanding and responding to community needs, mobility, wellbeing, and social equity considerations.

  2. What is embodied carbon in the context of sustainable infrastructure design?

    Answer: Greenhouse gas emissions associated with material production, transport, and construction

    Embodied carbon refers to the greenhouse gas emissions from manufacturing, transporting, and constructing the materials used in a project.

  3. Which sustainable design practice MOST directly reduces a project's embodied carbon?

    Answer: Specifying low-carbon cement substitutes such as fly ash or slag

    Supplementary cementitious materials like fly ash and slag replace portions of Portland cement, significantly reducing the carbon-intensive manufacturing process.

  4. A bridge project preserves a riparian corridor by elevating the roadway on columns rather than filling the floodplain. This design decision BEST reflects which Envision principle?

    Answer: Avoid adverse impacts on natural systems

    Elevating the structure avoids fill in the floodplain, directly protecting the riparian ecosystem and floodplain function consistent with Envision Natural World credits.

  5. Under the Envision framework, what does 'Leadership' credit LD2.1 address?

    Answer: Engaging stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle

    LD2.1 rewards projects that establish meaningful stakeholder engagement processes that inform and improve project decisions.

  6. Which scenario BEST illustrates the concept of 'long service life' as a sustainable design strategy?

    Answer: Designing infrastructure with durable materials and flexible configurations that can accommodate future uses

    Long service life is achieved through durable materials and adaptable designs that defer replacement and reduce total lifecycle resource consumption.

  7. A project team uses a parametric modeling tool to evaluate dozens of facade configurations for their energy and daylighting performance simultaneously. This represents which sustainable design approach?

    Answer: Performance-based design optimization

    Performance-based design optimization uses computational tools to evaluate multiple design alternatives against measurable performance targets.

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