Quiz: Summer/Fall 2023 BOC Bulletin

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This quiz refers to the article “These Buildings Aren’t Going to Decarbonize Themselves” in the Summer/Fall 2023 BOC Bulletin. To earn one maintenance point towards your annual BOC credential maintenance, read the article and then take this short quiz based on the material.

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Summer/Fall 2023 BOC Bulletin Quiz

1) ASHRAE defines building decarbonization as methods that reduce what related to buildings.*
- A. Human made GHG emissions
- B. The quality-oriented process for achieving, verifying, and documenting that the performance of facilities, systems, and assemblies meets defines objectives and criteria.
- C. A periodic meeting of building commissioners assessing open work-orders.
- D. Pollution
2) The current pace of retrofitting commercial and institutional buildings across the United States is on a timeline of how many years?*
- A. 500 years
- B. 100 years
- C. 300 years
- D. 50 years
3) What trend is affecting the conversation related to calculating EUI?*
- A. Making sure operators are present onsite during the commissioning process with the commissioning agent 100% of the time.
- B. Variable occupancy
- C. Full occupancy
- D. Unoccupied buildings
4) New tools can enable AI technology for ____________ building operations.*
- A. Continuous
- B. Variable
- C. Manual
- D. Autonomous
5) Buildings that are operated at higher efficiency consume less energy and provide the ___________ better level of comfort and services*
- A. Same
- B. Better
- C. Worse
- D. A or B
6) The Institute for Market Transformation has identified how many cities with energy benchmarking or transparency policies?*
- A. 40
- B. 50
- C. 10
- D. 20
7) Reducing the energy demand of buildings can make the energy system more resilient to supply disruptions and price fluctuations.*
- A. True
- B. False
8) Approximately how many Americans currently work in a job related to energy efficiency?*
- A. 1.5 million
- B. 2.16 million
- C. 3.4 million
- D. 10.1 million
9) Fault detection and diagnostics (FDD) is rare across commercial and institutional buildings working to identify abnormal operations of HVAC systems.*
- A. True
- B. False
10) According to the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Grid Interactive Efficient Buildings can do which of the following?*
- A. Remake buildings into a clean and flexible energy resource.
- B. Provide comfort and convenience for building occupants
- C. Sell services to the power grid
- D. All of the above
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Summer/Fall 2023 BOC Bulletin Quiz

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