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AIA/Architectural Record Continuing Education

Instructions

• Read the article "Italian Tile: Classical elegance without environmental expense."
• 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

1. In Europe, what percentage of energy use is devoted to the “built” environment?
a. 32 percent
b. 69 percent
c. 17 percent
d. 40 percent

2. Ceramic tiles are unsurpassed as a building material due to all but one of the following characteristics:
a. Fire resistance
b. Salubrity
c. Sensitivity
d. Impermeability

3. In the last few years, the Italian ceramic tile industry has reduced pollutant gas emissions in production processes by more than:
a. 90 percent
b. 17 percent
c. half
d. emission reductions are planned beginning in 2007

4. Which grade of tile is most strongly resistant to stains?
a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. 4

5. Which of the following are not a part of the European Commission’s “sustainability” agenda?
a. the reduction of the impact of raw materials extraction on habitats
b. the rational use of resources
c. the reduction of particulates discharges on a scale relative to the GDP
d. the management and recovery of wastewater during production

6. Fiber-optic technology has enabled tile walkways that are visible in the dark.
a. true
b. false

7. The most difficult waste product of tile production to reuse is
a. calcinate
b. ammonium nitrate
c. slaked lime depurate
d. sludge

8. The Italian tile industry has grown more "sustainable" through all but which of the following:
a. the recovery and use of heat emissions from production plants
b. increased reliance upon hydro-electric power generation
c. the creation of a database of industry energy consumption
d. increased reliance upon cogeneration

9. Ceramic materials are chemically and physically inert as a result of their high temperature thermal treatment at the end of the manufacturing cycle.
a. true
b. false

10. Three of the following architects were among winners in the Ceramic Tiles of Italy Design Competition in 2004. Which was not?
a. Edward R. Jones
b. David P. Brems
c. William McDonough
d. Bernard Tschumi

Click here to print the reporting form.