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By Nancy B. Solomon, AIA

AIA/Architectural Record Continuing Education

Instructions

• Read the article "The Pick of the Sustainable Crop?"
• 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
HSW: 1

1. Sustainable design lends itself to which type of design issues?
a. universal design issues
b. community design issues
c. unique environmental design issues
d. regional design issues

2. COTE Top Ten buildings must demonstrate which qualities?
a. good performance and good location
b. good design and good performance
c. good design, good performance, and good location
d. good location and good design

3. Which best describes the documentation included with drawings and photography for COTE awards?
a. performance characteristics in 10 categories of sustainable design
b. impact on commercial urban neighborhood
c. calculations of amounts of daylight
d. amount of fly ash contained in the concrete mixture

4. Which was not one of the earliest ecological decisions at Pittsburgh?
a. adapting a vacant two-story structure
b. selecting a site with good access to public transportation
c. using salvaged translucent-corrugated-glass panels
d. selecting an urban site

5. In order for the Pittsburgh Glass Center to draw fresh air through the unconditioned spaces, the design team had to do which?
a. use 2-hour fire doors and partitions
b. use fire dampers
c. use ducted return systems
d. apply for a variance to treat the building as an atriumlike space

6. Rinker Hall was oriented along a north-south axis for all except which reason?
a. to minimize exposure to the hot summer sun
b. to be respectful of existing landmarks
c. to take advantage of the abundant daylight
d. to keep a view of the memorial tower from two dormitories

7. The Rinker Hall solar screens allow daylight to do which?
a. penetrate deep into the building
b. be reflected out of the building
c. penetrate the perimeter of the building
d. be stored for use at a later time

8. When occupants spend a half day with diffused light and a half day with varia- tions in light conditions, Croxton says this allows them to experience what?
a. a significant amount of energy
b. the most ideal form of illumination
c. the most primitive, deep-seated aspects of comfort
d. natural healing

9. The Austin Resource Center used tilt-frame concrete for which reason?
a. because they had limited space to work
b. in order to reuse one form, saving the expense of many
c. to make the concrete pouring process faster
d. to make the concrete finishing process cleaner, more attractive

10. Fly ash was added to the concrete for all except which reason?
a. to cut down on the carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere
b. less expensive than portland cement
c. fly ash provides a warm brownish tint
d. sets up quicker than portland cement

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