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Institutional control Control of a radioactive waste site by an authority or institution desig-
nated under the laws of a State. This control may be active (monitoring, surveillance,
remedial work) or passive (land use control) and may be a factor in the design of a facility
(e.g., a near surface disposal facility).
Most commonly used to describe controls over a disposal facility after closure or a
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facility undergoing decommissioning.
l Also refers to the controls placed on a site that has been released from regulatory control
under the condition of observing specified restrictions on its future use to ensure that
these restrictions are complied with.
l The term institutional control is more general than regulatory control (i.e., regulatory
control may be thought of as a special form of institutional control).
l Institutional control … may apply in situations which do not fall within the scope of
facilities and activities. As a result, some form of institutional control may be
considered more likely to endure further into the future than regulatory control.
Integrity*** Wholeness.
Intervention*** Any action which has a physical effect on the fabric of a place.
Knowledge management An integrated, systematic approach for identifying, managing, and
sharing an organization’s knowledge and enabling groups of people to create new
knowledge collectively to help in achieving the organization’s objectives.
LEED certification LEED, or Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, is the most
widely used green building rating system in the world. Available for virtually all build-
ing, community, and home project types. LEED provides a framework to create healthy,
highly efficient, and cost-saving green buildings. LEED certification is a globally rec-
ognized symbol of sustainability achievement (https://new.usgbc.org/leed).
Life cycle management Life management (or lifetime management) in which due recognition
is given to the fact that at all stages in the lifetime there may be effects that need to be taken
into consideration.
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Life Safety Code The most widely used source (in the United States) for strategies to protect
people based on building construction, protection, and occupancy features that minimize
the effects of fire and related hazards. Unique in the field, it is the only document that
covers life safety in both new and existing structures (National Fire Protection Association,
NFPA 101, 2018 https://www.nfpa.org/codes-and-standards/all-codes-and-standards/list-
of-codes-and-standards/detail?code¼101).
Listed building A building officially recognized as having special historical or architectural
interest and therefore protected from demolition or alteration. There are three types of
listed status for buildings in England and Wales:
l Grade I: buildings of exceptional interest.
l Grade II*: particularly important buildings of more than special interest.
l Grade II: buildings that are of special interest, warranting every effort to preserve them.
(UK Department of Culture, Media and Sport, Principles of Selection for Listing Build-
ings, March 2010 http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20121204124728/http://
www.culture.gov.uk/images/publications/Principles_Selection_Listing.pdf). Often inter-
changeable, the following synonyms are used in the UK: buildings are “listed”; ancient
monuments are “scheduled,” wrecks are “protected,” and battlefields, gardens, and parks
are “registered.”
Listing In this book, designating properties for heritage protection.