LEED Exam Practice Questions For LEED V3

Online, October 10, 2009 (Newswire.com) - Understanding prerequisites and credits play an all important role in helping with your preparation for the Leed v3 exam. The first aspect that you need to understand is that there are different types of prerequisites and credits and they include:

1. Intention (Approach) and Implementation
2. Referenced Standards
3. Exemplary Performance
4. Decision Makers
5. Submittal Phase
6. Calculations

Let us start by looking into each of them and understand how important they are to the process of Leed construction or Leed v3 building.

Intention (Approach) and Implementation
Each of the credits and prerequisites mentioned in the Leed v3 reference guide has its own approach and process of implementation. Approach or intention as it is called underlines the importance or reason for the existence of a particular prerequisite or credit. On the other hand, implementation deals with the various methods and strategies that help in fulfilling the ideology behind each intention. Here is an example:

a. Intention states: Avoid development and construction of green building at an inappropriate site
b. Implementation states: You should not develop or construct at a site, which is within 100ft from the Wetlands defined by CFR or Code of Federal Regulations or at a farmland defined by USDA or at a site that is a public park land.

Referenced Standards
Most implementation processes revolve around standards. Referenced standards are basically different codes requirements, which are mostly used as a guideline within a Leed v3 rating system. The Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), Clean Water Act., Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and US Department of Agriculture are referred to as standards.

Exemplary Performance
There is an exemplary performance option in certain credits that a Leed v3 AP needs to be familiar with. More often than not, exemplary performance is seen as an extra credit and used for doing much more than what was expected for a specific credit.
Note: Prerequisites will not have the option of exemplary performance.

Decision Makers
You need to know who the decision makers are within each of the credits and prerequisites. Decision makers might include a design team, Leed AP, engineers, contractors, and even the owner. The decision makers change with the type of credit and prerequisite.

Submittal Phase
This comprises of the two phases in which the documentation for Leed credits and prerequisites can be submitted. These documents are submitted to USGBC for reviewing purposes. The two phases include the design phase followed by the construction phase. This basically means that you or your project team can submit specific credits during the design phase, so that USGBC can provide proper guidance to the project team.

Calculations
Both prerequisites and credits involve certain calculations. Most of the calculations are used for determining whether a particular project or project team has fulfilled their requirements. Some of the prerequisites and credits may even involve complicated calculations while others are fairly easy. The more you learn and practice, the easier it will be.