Pass the LEED Green Associate Exam, Get Your Building LEED Certified, Fight Global Warming and Save Money!LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) is one of the most important trends of development and is revolutionizing the construction industry. It has gained tremendous momentum and has a profound impact on our environment.From this book, you will learn how to:1. Pass the LEED Green Associate Exam.2. Use LEED exam preparation strategies, study methods, tips, suggestions, mnemonics, and exam tactics to improve your exam performance.3. Effectively understand, digest, and retain your LEED knowledge.4. Understand the process of registering and certifying a building for LEED.5. Understand the scope, main intent, core concepts and strategies, as well as identify the regulations, recognition, and incentives for each major LEED category.6. Identify the strategies for case studies.7. Identify the synergy in case studies.8. Implement the most important LEED related codes and building standards.9. Get points for categories not yet clearly defined by the USGBC.There is NO official GBCI book on the LEED Green Associate Exam. This pocket guide fills in the blanks and demystifies LEED. It uncovers the secrets, codes, and jargon for LEED as well as the true meaning of "going green." It provides a solid foundation and fundamental framework for LEED. It covers every major aspect of LEED in plain and concise language, and introduces it to ordinary people. This guide is small and easy to carry around. You can read it whenever you have a few extra minutes. It is an indispensable book for ordinary people, developers, brokers, contractors, administrators, architects, landscape architects, civil, structural, mechanical, electrical and plumbing engineers, interns, drafters, designers and other design professionals.Author BioGang Chen is a LEED AP BD+C and a licensed architect in California. He is also the internationally acclaimed author of other fascinating books, including: Architectural Practice Simplified, Planting Design Illustrated and LEED Exam Guides Series, which include one guide book for each of the LEED exams, ArchiteG.com.