LEED v4 AP BD+C Exam 2025
Questions and Answers 100% Pass
IN Credit: Innovation Requirements - ✔✔To achieve all 5 innovation points, a project
team must achieve at least one pilot credit, one innovation credit, and no more than two
exemplary performance credits.
IN Credit: LEED Accredited Professional Requirements - ✔✔At least one principal
participant of the project team must be a LEED Accredited Professional (AP) with a
specialty appropriate for the project.
RP Credit: Regional Priority Requirements - ✔✔Earn up to 4 of the 6 Regional Priority
credits. A database is listed on USGBC's website.
SS Prerequisite: Environmental Site Assessment Requirements - Applies to Schools and
Healthcare only - ✔✔Conduct a Phase 1 Environmental Site Assessment as described in
ASTM E1527-05 to determine if environmental contamination exists. If contamination is
suspected, conduct a Phase II Environmental Site Assessment. If a site is contaminated,
remediate the site to meet local, state, or national environmental protection agency
region residential standards.
SS Credit: Site Assessment - Requirements - ✔✔Complete and document a site survey
or assessment which includes the following information: topography, hydrology,
climate, vegetation, soils, human use, human health effects. The survey or assessment
should demonstrate the relationship between the site features and topics listed above
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,and how these features influenced the project design; give the reasons for not
addressing any of those topics.
SS Credit: Open Space Requirements - ✔✔Provide outdoor space greater than or equal
to 30% of the total site area (including the building footprint). A minimum of 25% of the
outdoor space must be vegetated or have overhead vegetated canopy. For projects that
achieve a density of 1.5 floor-area-ratio (FAR), and are physically accessible, extensive
or intensive vegetated roofs can be used towards the minimum 25% vegetation
requirements. Wetlands or naturally designed ponds may count as open space if the
side slope gradient average is 1:4 or less and are vegetated.
SS Credit: Rainwater Management - Option 1 Requirement - ✔✔Percentile of Rainfall
Events: Path 1. 95th Percentile - manage on site the runoff from the developed site for
the 95th percentile of regional or local rainfall events using low-impact development.
Path 2. 98th Percentile - achieve path 1 but for 98th percentile. 3. Path 3. Zero lot line
projects only - 85th percentile. Applies to zero lot line properties with a FAR of 1.5.
Manage on site the runoff from the developed site for the 85th percentile of regional or
local rainfall events, using LID and green infrastructure.
SS Credit: Rainwater Management - Option 2 Requirement - ✔✔Natural Land Cover
Conditions - Manage on site the annual increase in runoff volume for the natural land
cover condition to the post developed condition.
SS Credit: Heat Island Reduction - Option 1 Requirement - ✔✔Nonroof and Roof (area
of nonroof measure / 0.5) + (area of high reflectance roof / 0.75) is greater than or equal
to the total site paving area and the total roof area. Nonroof measures - use the existing
plant materials or install plants that provide shade over paving areas on the site within
10 years or planting, provide shade with structures covered by energy generation
systems, provide shade with architectural devices or structures that have a three-year
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,aged solar reflectance (SR) value of at least 0.28, vegetated structures, paving materials
with a three-year aged SR value of at least 0.28, use an open-grid pavement system.
SS Credit: Heat Island Reduction - Option 2 Requirement - ✔✔Parking under cover -
place a minimum of 75% of parking spaces under cover. Any roof used to shade or
cover parking must (1) have a 3-year aged SRI of at least 32, (2) be a vegetated roof, or
(3) be covered by energy generated systems.
SS Credit: Light Pollution Reduction Requirements - ✔✔Meet uplight and light trespass
requirements, using either the backlight-uplight-glare (BUG) method (option 1) or the
calculation method (option 2). Meet these requirements for all exterior luminaries
located inside the project boundary and meet the internally illuminated signage
requirement.
SS Credit: Site Master Plan Requirements (applies to Schools only) - ✔✔The project
must achieve at least four of the following using the associated calculation methods.
The achieved credits must then be recalculated using the data from the master plan: LT
Credit High Priority Site; SS Credit Site Development - Protect or Restore; SS Credit
Open Space; SS Credit Rainwater Management; SS Credit Heat Island Reduction; SS
Credit Light Pollution Reduction.
SS Credit: Tenant Design and Construction Guidelines Requirements (applies to Core &
Shell only) - ✔✔Publish for tenants an illustrated document with the following content
as applicable: a description of the sustainable design and construction features
incorporated in the project, recommendations (including examples) for sustainable
strategies, produces, materials, and services; and information that enables a tenant to
coordinate space design and construction with the building systems when pursing the
following LEED v4 for Interior Design and Construction with prerequisites and credits.
Provide guidelines to tenants before they sign a lease.
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, SS Credit: Places for Respite Requirements (applies to Healthcare only) - ✔✔Places of
respite which are accessible to patients and visitors, equal to 5% of the net usable
program of the building. Provide additional dedicated places for respite for staff, equal
to 2% of the net usable program. Places of respite - must be outdoors, in an interior
atria, greenhouses, solaria, or conditioned spaces; such interior spaces may be used to
meet up to 30% of the required area if 90% of each qualifying space's gross floor area
achieves a direct line of sight to unobstructed views of nature.
SS Credit: Direct Exterior Access Requirements (applies to Healthcare only) -
✔✔Provide direct access to an exterior courtyard, terrace, garden or balcony. Space
must be at least 5 sf / patient for 75% of all inpatients and 75% of qualifying outpatients
whose clinical length of stay exceed 4 hours (patients who are unable to move may be
excluded). Places outside the building must meet SS Credit Places of Respite. Spaces
must be nonsmoking, meeting the requirements for air containment concentrations in
EQ Credit Enhanced Indoor Air Quality Strategies, Option 2 and be located no more
than 100 ft from the building exhaust locations / loading docks / roadways with idling
vehicles.
SS Credit: Joint Use of Facilities - Requirements Option 1 (applies only to schools) -
✔✔Make building space open to the general public. In collaboration with the school
authorities, ensure at least three of the following types of spaces in the school are
accessible for use by the general public: auditoriums; gymnasiums; cafeteria; one or
more classrooms; playing fields and stadiums; joint parking. Provide access to toilets in
joint-use areas after normal school hours.
SS Credit: Joint Use of Facilities - Requirements Option 2 (applies only to schools) -
✔✔Option 2: Contract with Specific Organizations to Share Building Space. In
collaboration with school authorities, contract with community or other organizations
to provide at least two of the following dedicated-use spaces: commercial office; health
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Questions and Answers 100% Pass
IN Credit: Innovation Requirements - ✔✔To achieve all 5 innovation points, a project
team must achieve at least one pilot credit, one innovation credit, and no more than two
exemplary performance credits.
IN Credit: LEED Accredited Professional Requirements - ✔✔At least one principal
participant of the project team must be a LEED Accredited Professional (AP) with a
specialty appropriate for the project.
RP Credit: Regional Priority Requirements - ✔✔Earn up to 4 of the 6 Regional Priority
credits. A database is listed on USGBC's website.
SS Prerequisite: Environmental Site Assessment Requirements - Applies to Schools and
Healthcare only - ✔✔Conduct a Phase 1 Environmental Site Assessment as described in
ASTM E1527-05 to determine if environmental contamination exists. If contamination is
suspected, conduct a Phase II Environmental Site Assessment. If a site is contaminated,
remediate the site to meet local, state, or national environmental protection agency
region residential standards.
SS Credit: Site Assessment - Requirements - ✔✔Complete and document a site survey
or assessment which includes the following information: topography, hydrology,
climate, vegetation, soils, human use, human health effects. The survey or assessment
should demonstrate the relationship between the site features and topics listed above
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,and how these features influenced the project design; give the reasons for not
addressing any of those topics.
SS Credit: Open Space Requirements - ✔✔Provide outdoor space greater than or equal
to 30% of the total site area (including the building footprint). A minimum of 25% of the
outdoor space must be vegetated or have overhead vegetated canopy. For projects that
achieve a density of 1.5 floor-area-ratio (FAR), and are physically accessible, extensive
or intensive vegetated roofs can be used towards the minimum 25% vegetation
requirements. Wetlands or naturally designed ponds may count as open space if the
side slope gradient average is 1:4 or less and are vegetated.
SS Credit: Rainwater Management - Option 1 Requirement - ✔✔Percentile of Rainfall
Events: Path 1. 95th Percentile - manage on site the runoff from the developed site for
the 95th percentile of regional or local rainfall events using low-impact development.
Path 2. 98th Percentile - achieve path 1 but for 98th percentile. 3. Path 3. Zero lot line
projects only - 85th percentile. Applies to zero lot line properties with a FAR of 1.5.
Manage on site the runoff from the developed site for the 85th percentile of regional or
local rainfall events, using LID and green infrastructure.
SS Credit: Rainwater Management - Option 2 Requirement - ✔✔Natural Land Cover
Conditions - Manage on site the annual increase in runoff volume for the natural land
cover condition to the post developed condition.
SS Credit: Heat Island Reduction - Option 1 Requirement - ✔✔Nonroof and Roof (area
of nonroof measure / 0.5) + (area of high reflectance roof / 0.75) is greater than or equal
to the total site paving area and the total roof area. Nonroof measures - use the existing
plant materials or install plants that provide shade over paving areas on the site within
10 years or planting, provide shade with structures covered by energy generation
systems, provide shade with architectural devices or structures that have a three-year
COPYRIGHT © 2025 BY GRACE AMELIA, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 2
,aged solar reflectance (SR) value of at least 0.28, vegetated structures, paving materials
with a three-year aged SR value of at least 0.28, use an open-grid pavement system.
SS Credit: Heat Island Reduction - Option 2 Requirement - ✔✔Parking under cover -
place a minimum of 75% of parking spaces under cover. Any roof used to shade or
cover parking must (1) have a 3-year aged SRI of at least 32, (2) be a vegetated roof, or
(3) be covered by energy generated systems.
SS Credit: Light Pollution Reduction Requirements - ✔✔Meet uplight and light trespass
requirements, using either the backlight-uplight-glare (BUG) method (option 1) or the
calculation method (option 2). Meet these requirements for all exterior luminaries
located inside the project boundary and meet the internally illuminated signage
requirement.
SS Credit: Site Master Plan Requirements (applies to Schools only) - ✔✔The project
must achieve at least four of the following using the associated calculation methods.
The achieved credits must then be recalculated using the data from the master plan: LT
Credit High Priority Site; SS Credit Site Development - Protect or Restore; SS Credit
Open Space; SS Credit Rainwater Management; SS Credit Heat Island Reduction; SS
Credit Light Pollution Reduction.
SS Credit: Tenant Design and Construction Guidelines Requirements (applies to Core &
Shell only) - ✔✔Publish for tenants an illustrated document with the following content
as applicable: a description of the sustainable design and construction features
incorporated in the project, recommendations (including examples) for sustainable
strategies, produces, materials, and services; and information that enables a tenant to
coordinate space design and construction with the building systems when pursing the
following LEED v4 for Interior Design and Construction with prerequisites and credits.
Provide guidelines to tenants before they sign a lease.
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, SS Credit: Places for Respite Requirements (applies to Healthcare only) - ✔✔Places of
respite which are accessible to patients and visitors, equal to 5% of the net usable
program of the building. Provide additional dedicated places for respite for staff, equal
to 2% of the net usable program. Places of respite - must be outdoors, in an interior
atria, greenhouses, solaria, or conditioned spaces; such interior spaces may be used to
meet up to 30% of the required area if 90% of each qualifying space's gross floor area
achieves a direct line of sight to unobstructed views of nature.
SS Credit: Direct Exterior Access Requirements (applies to Healthcare only) -
✔✔Provide direct access to an exterior courtyard, terrace, garden or balcony. Space
must be at least 5 sf / patient for 75% of all inpatients and 75% of qualifying outpatients
whose clinical length of stay exceed 4 hours (patients who are unable to move may be
excluded). Places outside the building must meet SS Credit Places of Respite. Spaces
must be nonsmoking, meeting the requirements for air containment concentrations in
EQ Credit Enhanced Indoor Air Quality Strategies, Option 2 and be located no more
than 100 ft from the building exhaust locations / loading docks / roadways with idling
vehicles.
SS Credit: Joint Use of Facilities - Requirements Option 1 (applies only to schools) -
✔✔Make building space open to the general public. In collaboration with the school
authorities, ensure at least three of the following types of spaces in the school are
accessible for use by the general public: auditoriums; gymnasiums; cafeteria; one or
more classrooms; playing fields and stadiums; joint parking. Provide access to toilets in
joint-use areas after normal school hours.
SS Credit: Joint Use of Facilities - Requirements Option 2 (applies only to schools) -
✔✔Option 2: Contract with Specific Organizations to Share Building Space. In
collaboration with school authorities, contract with community or other organizations
to provide at least two of the following dedicated-use spaces: commercial office; health
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