Who Should Take the LEED® Green Associate Exam?

General contractors

Presidents

Vice presidents

Construction managers

Project managers

Superintendents

Subcontractors

Architects

Students

Government agencies

• Suppliers to the construction industry
• Building owners and end-users
• Real estate developers
• Facility managers
• Architects
• Designers
• Engineers
• Product and building system manufacturers

The LEED Green Associate Exam is the 1st tier exam for LEED v3.

The GBCI website states that the Green Associate exam is “for professionals who want to demonstrate green building expertise in non-technical fields of practice…[it] denotes basic knowledge of green design, construction and operations.”

This exam is for the product manufacturers, the marketers, the finance people, students, people in customer service for a large construction firm, etc. It’s also for people who are not yet eligible to take a LEED AP specialty exam.

The Green Associate exam will test your knowledge of:

• The LEED Application Process
• Project Site Factors
• Water Management
• Project Systems and Energy Impacts
• Acquisition, Installation and Management of Project Materials
• Stakeholder Involvement in Innovation
• Project Surroundings and Public Outreach
• Synergistic Opportunities between various LEED strategies

The information is less detailed than what is required to know for the specialty exams, but it covers information that can span across all of the various LEED Rating Systems.

Here is some more quick info about the exam:

• 2 hour exam
• 100 multiple-choice questions
• computer-based test
• USGBC national members/full-time students: $150, All others: $200.

To Begin Studying for the LEED® Green Associate Exam, please check out out LEED® Green Associate Exam Prep Products at RMC Green Building Training.

For more information, please take a look at the Green Associate exam candidate handbook, which can be found on the GBCI website.