Why are EPD's harder to achieve than HPD's? - correct answer ✔✔Due to life cycle assessment (end of
life, energy management, water management, manufacturing emissions)
What does BIFMA do? - correct answer ✔✔Leads, advocates, informs, and develops standards in North
American office and institutional furniture industry
Define Renewable - correct answer ✔✔Replenished by nature - this is limited, like trees
Define Bio-Based - correct answer ✔✔Made by substances derived by once living products
What is "Extended Product Responsibility"? - correct answer ✔✔mitigates the impact of products and
their packaging to recycle or reuse at the end if its useful life Example: Carpet Send Back Programs
Block Plans - correct answer ✔✔Represent the progression of the schematic design phase from simple
graphics towards architectural form
Stacking Plan or Diagram - correct answer ✔✔Shows what needs to be on each level (level adjacencies)
Adjacency Matrix - correct answer ✔✔useful tool for documenting spatial proximity, related activities
and identifying priorities
,Bubble Diagram - correct answer ✔✔quick way to address issues including lighting and acoustics in the
planning phase, they also can be used to differentiate public and private zones - abstract plan forms to
show spaces, activities, and circulation patterns
What order would you place schematic drawing types? - correct answer ✔✔1. Adjacency Matrices
What are the 4 major considerations during programming? - correct answer ✔✔1. Form
2. Function
3. Economy
4. Time
3 Points of a Programming Format - correct answer ✔✔1. Statement of Goals & Objectives
2. List of Client Requirements
3. List of Spaces and Square Footages
What is Laser Scanning? - correct answer ✔✔It is part of the research process in surveying - it's end
result is a 3D model or "point cloud"
What 6 things affect space planning the most? - correct answer ✔✔1. Size
2. Ornate Millwork
3. Location of Plumbing
4. Undesirable Views
, 5. Location of Existing Columns
6. Load Bearing Walls
What can a difference in "Climate Zones" have on buildings? - correct answer ✔✔It can affect the: Wall
Materials & Assembly, Size & Orientation of Windows, Heating & Cooling, and Moisture Control
What can "Regional Microclimates" have an impact on in the design? - correct answer ✔✔Sunlight
exposure during the day, rain, local winds and vegetation
What direction should a window that you want to get the maximum amount of sunlight in no matter the
season? - correct answer ✔✔South
Define Tolerance in terms of space planning - correct answer ✔✔Allows for extra space for a dynamic
activity (one likely to change) instead of fitting the space precisely to a static activity
What are "square footage standards"? - correct answer ✔✔measuring of space to calculate rent or code
compliance
Define Gross Area - correct answer ✔✔measured square footage of a space or floor area construction
What is BOMA - correct answer ✔✔BOMA is considered a standard, not a code. BOMA produces many
standards for space measurements used in: Retail, Industrial, Multitenant (Residential) and Mixed Use
Design
What is IFMA? - correct answer ✔✔International Facility Management Association
What does IFMA do? - correct answer ✔✔Produces standards that give methods for measuring space
ANSI/BOMA Z65.1 - correct answer ✔✔Office Buildings: Standard Methods of Measurement
Define Rentable Area - correct answer ✔✔Revenue producing floor area
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