Explanation:
Under the Access to Quality Transit credit, the qualifying transits should meet the required total number of trips for both weekdays and weekends.
Only school projects can neglect weekend trips if the students do not commute to school on weekends. However, for this question, the project is an office building.
Explanation:
Option 2: Prescriptive Compliance: ASHRAE 50% Advanced Energy Design Guide is for projects that do not contain unique designs and systems beyond simple improvements to the MEP (mechanical, electrical, and plumbing) systems. Office buildings of less than 100,000 square feet (9,290 square meters), retail buildings between 20,000 and 100,000 square feet (1,860–9,290 square meters), school buildings of any size, and hospitals larger than 100,000 square feet (9,290 square meters) are eligible to pursue this option.
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Explanation:
For the Sensitive Land Protection credit, avoid building on prime farmland, unique farmland, or farmland of local importance. This is defined by the US Department of Agriculture.
For the Site Assessment credit, identify soil types, prime farmland status, healthy soils, and past development using Natural Resources Conservation Service soil surveys.
Under the Site Development—Protect or Restore Habitat credit, don't use prime farmland or soils from other greenfield sites, unless they are a byproduct of construction.
Explanation: The LEED AP BD+C covers categories such as Sustainable Sites, Energy and Atmosphere, Materials and Resources, and more. However, "Environmental Quality" is not specifically listed as a category.
Explanation:
If any partial work occurs during the flush-out in any space (such as installing furnishings), the flush-out process must be restarted from the beginning for that space.
Explanation:
For all the options under the Daylight credit, all LEED BD+C projects except healthcare should consider the regularly occupied floor area while the LEED BD+C: Healthcare projects should consider the perimeter area.
Explanation:
Path 3 of the Rainwater Management credit is only for zero-lot-line projects in urban areas with a minimum density of a 1.5 floor-to-area ratio. (Zero-lot-line projects are types of projects in which the buildings are built on the entire lot.)
For this question, since the project should have a minimum density of a 1.5 floor-to-area ratio, the total square feet of the building should be 15,000 square feet at a minimum.
1.5 FAR = 15,000 square feet / 10,000 square feet
Explanation:
Providing individual lighting controls that enable occupants to adjust the lighting to suit their preferences is addressed under Option 1: Lighting Control part of the Interior Lighting credit. As the name implies, Option 2: Lighting Quality deals with the lighting quality rather than the lighting controls.
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Explanation:
Under Option 1: Whole-Building Energy Simulation part of the Minimum Energy Performance prerequisite, the percent improvement in the baseline building performance must be established without considering the on-site renewable energy sources (such as PV panels for this question). However, on-site renewable energy sources can be counted toward energy savings under the Optimize Energy Performance credit.
Installing a canopy covered by PV panels will also contribute to the Heat Island Reduction credit because providing shade with structures covered by energy generation systems is one of the “nonroof” strategies under that credit.
Since installing PV panels will result in producing on-site renewable energy, this will also contribute to the Renewable Energy Production credit.
However, installing PV panels will not contribute to the Demand Response credit.
Explanation:
Under the Enhanced Indoor Air Quality Strategies credit, for “interior cross-contamination,” projects should exhaust spaces that may contain hazardous materials or chemicals, to create negative pressure with respect to the adjacent spaces when the doors to the room are closed. These types of spaces should also contain self-closing doors and a deck-to-deck partition or a hard-lid ceiling. Some examples of spaces that may contain hazardous materials or chemicals would be garages, laundry areas, or copying and printing rooms.
Installing permanent entryway systems at least 10 feet (3 meters) long in the primary direction of travel at the regularly used exterior entrances would be an “entryway systems” strategy.
Designing the building to minimize and control the entry of pollutants into the building would be an “exterior contamination prevention” strategy.
Explanation:
Under the Light Pollution Reduction credit, the following types of lighting are exempt from the credit requirements if they are controlled separately from the nonexempt lighting:
Specialized signal, directional, and marker lighting for transportation
Lighting solely used for facade and landscape lighting in MLO lighting zones 3 and 4 and that is automatically turned off from midnight to six in the morning
Government-mandated roadway lighting
Lighting for theatrical purposes, stages, and video performances
Hospital emergency department and helipad lighting
National flag lighting in MLO lighting zones 2, 3, or 4
