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AIA/Architectural Record Continuing Education

Instructions

• Read the article "Technology for Sustainability: A three-part special section investigates the ways that new technology makes green building easier."
• Complete the questions below, then fill in your answers .
• Fill out and submit the AIA/CES education reporting form in the magazine or print the form to receive one AIA learning unit.

Questions:

LU: 1 HS: 1

1. How is cool air delivered to the building at York University?
a. cold air brought in through natural ventilation
b. cold-water pipes running through concrete slabs
c. shading overhangs cool the inside air
d. air from an underground plenum is drawn into rooms

2. Specifying optimal window glazing systems required studying the impact of
a. daylight routines
b. weather, daylight routines, and solar radiation
c. solar radiation and daylight
d. weather and daylight

3. Environmental comfort is determined by which combination of factors?
a. temperature, humidity, air intake and exhaust, and solar radiation
b. air intake and exhaust, humidity, and solar radiation
c. temperature, humidity, air intake and exhaust, air movement,
and solar radiation
d. temperature, humidity, and solar radiation

4. The process of analyzing, predicting, and controlling the movement of fluids is known as which?
a. flow engineering
b. hygroscopic engineering
c. building management system
d. variable speed water pumping

5. The goal in the Hannover building was to allow office workers control over which?
a. placement of windows
b. choice of shading devices
c. temperature and air movement
d. heating, window openings, lighting and shading devices

6. Shading devices should do which?
a. allow solar heat gain
b. protect from solar heat gain
c. block out daylight
d. reflect daylight to the exterior

7. A sphere has how much less surface area than a cube of the same volume?
a. 15 percent
b. 25 percent
c. 35 percent
d. 45 percent

8. Potential heat loss from the GLA was reduced by which?
a. high-performance glazing
b. highly insulated panels
c. combination of high-performance glazing and highly insulated panels
d. combination of high-performance glazing and solar shading

9. The GLA atrium is heated by which method?
a. hot air
b. hot water
c. solar radiation
d. stack effect

10. The GLA’s offices are ventilated by which method?
a. the air-handling unit
b. vents in the building facade
c. operable windows
d. both a and b, but not c

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