WIMSEE is a great chart that is referenced a lot as a way to remember the numbers of prerequisites and available point in each LEED NC section. I put it up a while ago in a post about InTheLEED.com, a great study resource.
I am making some adjustments to it to help me remember the ID opportunities and submittal phases of as well. They are not in beautiful ascending order as the rest of WIMSEE is, but when they are added to the table it makes a fairly simple visual for me to remember.
Please note that people have mentioned some discrepancies between people’s ID counts – especially in the SS section. I think this is due to the Alternative Transportation credits. I arrived at my seven by counting: SS2 – you can double the density of the project itself or you can double the base credit area and corresponding density; SS4s – alternative transportation management plan; SS4.1 – increase threshold of distances to public transportation and require high frequency of service; SS5.1 – increase threshold to 75%; SS5.2 – double everything; SS7.1 – 100% high-albedo surfaces or underground parking; SS7.2 – full green roof. Pat on InTheLEED counted all the Alt Trans credits as one. I believe, however, that two points are available. Someone please correct me if I am wrong. (Thank you reader ‘brandon’ for bring this to my attention in the comments).
Anyway, here it is:
WIMSEE extended
So then I use a little rhyming to remember the numbers…
206723: the order of id points available in WIMSEE.
Plenty (20) of tricks (6) can get you into Heaven (7). But you won’t be true (2) and free (3).
For the submittal phases, I do a more visual approach. I fill in all the ‘designs’ and ‘constructions’ which is fairly easy once you try it a couple times.
Then for the numbers, I put in all the p1’s first. Then I put anything with a .1 after it. Then 3,5,6. In the end I treat it like a series of steps. And I only have to remember a couple numbers for each step, so it’s not so bad. Hope this works for someone else too!
possible questions for ss 8:
1. What are the requirements for this credit?
2. What is required of automatic lights based on timers?
3. What are the zones defined by IESNA RP-33?
4. What should the project team do to ensure that the project has complied with this credit?
5. What standard should the design team utilize to discover interior building lighting information?
6. What are the 3 goals of this credit?
answers:
1. ‘Indoor candles are not automatic between 8:00am and 5:00pm’. This helps you remember the indoor lighting requirements (max candela not to exit through windows OR auto lights in off hours), and gets you started with the numbers for the exterior lighting requirements (80% lighting power density for exterior areas, 50% for landscape and facades).
2. Manual override.
3.
4. Build a model using lighting design software.
5. The manufacturer’s photometric data
6. ❶ control interior building lighting ❷ control exterior lighting power density ❸ control exterior lighting distribution
Pat at InTheLEED.com has done a great job at creating useful study material. I nabbed a couple of the tables from his website (with full reference citing of course), which may be a good way for you to remember things such as available points for prerequisites and credits, and ASHRAE standards.
For me, this one – WIMSEE, is quite good and easy for point requirements…
WIMSEE
This one, for ASHRAE standards, is a bit numerical for me to remember by heart. I might need to come up with something more memorable for me later…
ASHRAE standards
And this one, while a good summary, is NEVER gonna stick in my brain. So I will need to use this in conjunction with another method to memorize exemplary performance requirements…
exemplary performance credits
This final one is a good one to review. There are more questions than you would think about the decision makers in each credit…
decision makers
Thanks, Pat, for your help!
p.s. I also took Pat’s advice and signed up for the sample test package at Green Building Education Services (www.greenexamprep.com). They are fantastic and are quite intimidating. When I can score above an 80% on all of those tests, I will feel prepared I think. (My first go was a 44%!!! But that was before I started studying… so here’s hoping.)
