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| Build environment is understood as a series of relationships in which each part affects many other parts. |
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| Looking at all stages of project, product, or service. |
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| An approach that emphasizes connections and communication among professionals and stakeholders throughout the life of the project. |
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| Assemblage of elements or parts that interact in a series of relationships to form a complex whole that serves a particular function or purpose. |
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| Three major concepts integral to green building and sustainability |
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Systems Thinking
Life Cycle Approach
Integrated Processes |
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| True/False: Most systems are actually systems within systems. |
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| Systems in which materials and resources are constantly brought in from the outside, used in some way, and then released outside the system in some form of waste. |
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| True/False: In nature, there are no open systems. |
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| Systems in which passing of materials and resources through the system is slowed. We link elements to mimic a closed system, though there is no such man made system. This is the most sustainable kind of system. |
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| The boundary between the exterior and interior elements of a building. |
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| The information flows within a system that allow that system to organize itself. |
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Loop where embedded in the system's response to a change is a signal for the system to stop changing when that response is no longer needed.
Enable a system to self-correct.
Stimulus -> Sensor -> Counteraction
Example: thermostat |
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| Self-enforcing feedback loop where the stimulus causes an effect and the effect produces even more of that same effect. Example: population growth. |
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| True/False: Unchecked, positive feedback loops will not create chaos. |
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| True/False: In nature, positive feedback loops are often checked by stabilizing negative feedback loops. |
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| Delivering real-time energy information in a convenient way by installing meters where operators can act on the information and make changes to use energy more efficiently |
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| Places where a small intervention can yield large changes. |
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| The practice of investigating materials from the point of extraction to their disposal. |
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| Term that emphasizes the cyclical aspect of a closed system. There is no waste and all things find purpose at the end of their useful lives. |
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| The total amount of energy used to harvest or extract, manufacture, transport, install, and use a product across its life cycle--alongside performance and adaptability. |
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| Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) |
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| When life cycle thinking is applied to environmental considerations. Attempts to identify and quantify environmental effects throughout the life of materials, products or buildings. |
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| When life cycle thinking is applied to cost considerations. Looks at both purchase and operating costs as well as relative savings over the life of the building or product. |
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