GreenSpec Glossary
A glossary of certifications, measurements, and other not so common terms
- 2-year, 24-hour Design Storm
-
a
- Account Classification
- ACH
- Acid Rain
- Acidification
- Adapted vegetation
- Adaptive Reuse
- Adequate Transit Service
- Adjacent Site
- Adsorption
- Aerosol Adhesive
- Aggregate Building
- Agrifiber Board
- Agrifiber Products
- AHU
- Air Quality Standards
- Air Source Heat Pump
- Airborne Particulates
- Albedo
- Alternative Daily Cover
- Alternative-fuel Vehicles
- Ambient Lighting
- Ambient Temperature
- Ancillary Learning Spaces
- Angle of Maximum Candela
- Anticorrosive Paints
- Appurtenance
- Area Median Income
- Area-weighted SRI
- Arid Watershed
- ASEF
- Assembly Recycled Content
- ASTM
- Attendance Boundary
- Audio Frequency
- Automatic Fixture Sensors
-
b
- Baseline Building Performance
- Baseline Irrigation Water Use
- bay
- BIFMA
- Biking Network
- Binder
- Bioaccumulation
- Biobased
- Biochemical Oxygen Demand
- Biological Control
- Bioremediation
- BIPV
- Bisphenol-A
- Blackwater
- Bleed-off
- Bleed-off Rate
- Blowdown
- Blower door test
- BMP
- BOD
- Breathing Zone
- BREEAM
- Brownfields
- Btu
- Buildable Land
- Building Automation System (BAS)
- Building Density
- Building Engineer
- Building Floorspace
- Building Footprint
- Building Operating Plan
- Building Shell
- Building-Related Illness
- Buildout
- Built-Up Roof
-
c
- C&D
- C2C
- Cadmium
- California Section 01350
- Campus Bus
- Car Sharing
- CARB
- Carbon offset
- Cases or Cabinets
- CBECS
- CCT
- CDD
- CDL
- CEE
- CERCLA
- Certified Wood
- CFCs
- CFL
- CGP
- Chain-of-Custody
- Chemical Runoff
- Chemical Treatment
- CHP
- Chromium
- Churn
- CIGS
- CIR
- Circadian Rhythm
- Class I Bikeway
- Clerestory Windows
- Climate Change
- Climate Zone
- CO2
- Cogeneration
- Comfort Criteria
- Comingled
- Completed Design Area
- Composite Wood
- Composting Toilets
- Compressed Workweek
- Concentration Ratio
- Conditional Energy Intensity
- Conductivity Meter
- Construction General Permit
- Construction IAQ Management Plan
- Construction Scope
- Construction Waste Management Plan (CWMP)
- Conversion Factors
- Conversion Losses
- Cooling Equipment
- Core learning spaces
- Cradle to Cradle Gold
- Cradle to Cradle Platinum
- Cradle to Cradle Silver
- CRI
- CRI Green Label
- CRI Green Label Plus
- Cx
- CxA
- Cycles of Concentration
-
d
- Daylight Factor
- Daylight Glazing
- Daylight-Responsive Lighting Controls
- Daylighting Sensors
- dBA
- Declarant
- Dedicated Server
- Degree-Days 45-Year Average
- Densely Occupied Spaces
- Density Factor
- Depth of Discharge
- Design Intent
- Design Light Output
- Development Footprint
- DHW
- Differential air pressure
- Diffusers
- Direct Line of Sight to Perimeter Vision Glazing
- Displacement Ventilation
- Distributed Water-Heating System
- Downstream Equipment
- Drip Irrigation
- Dual-flush
- Durable Goods
- Durable Goods Waste Stream
-
e
- EBOM
- EC Meter
- ECER
- ECM
- Ecological Restoration
- Ecologically Appropriate Site Features
- EcoLogo
- Economizer
- Economizer Cycle
- Ecotoxicity
- EF
- Efficacy
- Electrical Conductivity (EC) Meter
- Electrical Engineering
- Embodied Energy
- EMCS
- emergency lighting
- Emissivity
- Endocrine Disrupter
- Energy Intensity
- Energy Source-Specific Floorspace
- Energy Star
- Energy-Related Space Functions
- Environmentally Preferable Purchasing
- EPA WaterSense
- EPP
- ESC
- ET
- ETS
- Eutrophication
- Ex-situ Remediation
- Exemplary performance
- Exfiltration
- External Overhangs or Awnings
- Extraction, harvest or recovery point
-
f
- Faucet aerator
- fc
- Flat Coatings
- Floor Area Ratio
- FloorScore
- Fluoropolymer
- Flushometer
- Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)
- Formaldehyde
- FSC
- FTE
- Fuel-Efficient Vehicles
- Full Cutoff
- Full Cutoff Luminaire
- Full-Cost Accounting
- Full-Time Equivalent
- Fully Shielded
- Functional Entry
- Functional Performance Testing
-
g
- Glazing Factor
- gpf
- gph
- gpm
- Graywater
- Green Seal
- Green-e
- Greenguard Children & Schools
- Greenguard Indoor Air Quality
- Greenguard Select
- Gross Energy Intensity
- gross floor area
- Gross Floorspace
- Gross Square Footage
- Ground Source Heat Pump
- GWP
-
h
- Halogen Light Bulb
- Halons
- HCFCs
- Heat Island Effect
- Heat Pump
- Heat-recovery ventilator
- Heating Degree-Days
- HEPA filters
- HERS Index
- Hertz
- HET
- High-Efficiency Particulate Air
- Horizontal Footcandles
- Horizontal View
- hospitality industry
- Humid Watershed
- Hydrofluorocarbons
-
i
- IAQ
- IECC
- IFMA
- Impervious Surfaces
- Imperviousness
- Individual occupant spaces
- Indoor Advantage Gold™
- Indoor Advantage™
- Integrated Design
- Integrated Pest Management
- Interior Lighting Power Allowance
- Interior Non-Structural Components Reuse
- IPC
- IPMVP
-
k
- KL
- kWh
-
l
- Landscape Area
- Leakage rate
- Learning spaces
- LEDs
- Legionella pneumophila
- Life Cycle Analysis
- Life Cycle Inventory
- Life-Cycle assessment
- Life-Cycle Cost
- lodging
- Long Life, Loose Fit
- Low-E
- Low-Emitting Vehicles
- LPD
- lpw
- Lumen
- Luminaire
- Lux
-
m
- Mbh
- MDF
- MDI
- MEF
- MERV
- Microclimate Factor
- Movable furniture and partitions
- MPI's X-Green Performance Standard
- MSDS
- Multi-Occupant Spaces
- Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
-
n
- Native Vegetation
- Net Project Material Value
- NOAA Division
- Non-densely occupied spaces
- Nonoccupied spaces
- Nonpoint Source Pollution
- Nonpotable Water
- Nonregularly Occupied Space
- NPDES
- NPV
- NRC
- NSF-140
- NSF/ANSI 332
-
o
- Occasional Furniture
- Occupied spaces
- Octave Band
- ODP
- Off-Hours Equipment Reduction
- once-through cooling
- Ongoing Consumables
- Open Space Area
- OPR
- OSB
-
p
- Partially Shielded
- Percent Lit When Closed
- Percent Lit When Open
- PFOA
- Phenol Formaldehyde
- Picogram
- Picograms Per Lumen-Hour
- Plasticizer
- Post-Consumer
- Post-Industrial
- Potable Water
- PPB
- PPM
- Precautionary approach
- Predevelopment
- Preferred Parking
- Present Value
- Previously developed
- private use
- Process Water
- psi
- PSU
- public use
-
q
- QC Plan
-
r
- Rainforest Alliance Certification
- Rapidly Renewable
- Rated Power
- Rational Method
- RCRA
- REC
- Regularly occupied spaces
- Reverberation
- RoHS Compliant
- roof area
- RT
-
s
- SBS
- SCS Environmentally Preferable Products
- SCS Recycled and Material Content
- SCS Sustainable Choice
- Sealed Combustion
- sealers
- Semiarid Watershed
- Setpoints
- SHGC
- Shielding
- Sky Glow
- Smart Certified
- SOP
- Sound Absorption Coefficient
- Source Energy
- Species Factor
- Specular Reflectors
- SRE
- SRI
- Standard Error
- STC
- Submeter
- Submetering
- Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI)
- Systems Furniture
-
t
- TAG
- Tertiary Treatment
- Tipping Fees
- Toe of the Slope
- TP
- TSS
- Tvis
- TVOC
-
u
- Universal Notification
- UPC
- UPS
- Upstream Equipment
- Urban Heat Island
- Urea Formaldehyde
- UV
-
v
- VAV
- Vertical Footcandles
- VFD
- VMT
- VOCs
-
w
- WF
- WFR
- Woonerf
-
x
- Xeriscaping
-
z
- ZEV
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