Introduction to green buildings
A primer to green building design
Description
This course is approved for 0.5 GBCI Continuation Education (CE) credits.
While the building sector is one of the biggest contributors to global warming and climate change, it also has the greatest potential for mitigation. Green Buildings are designed to have reduced environmental impacts in terms of energy, water, transportation, waste and the indoor environment.
This course enumerates the goals and strategies for designing a green building. You’ll also understand how different benchmarks and standards for green buildings have evolved over time and where they’re headed in the future.
This course is organized in small modules. The first module elaborates on the environmental impacts of buildings. The second module will help you understand what green buildings are. Next, you will understand various strategies of green building design in the third module. Finally, the fourth module will provide you an insight to where green buildings are headed in the future.
The course content has high-quality visuals to provide you an engaging and insightful learning experience. At the end of the course, you’ll have complete clarity on what green buildings are all about.
What You Will Learn!
- Understand environmental impacts of buildings
- List design strategies for green buildings
- Discuss sustainability in the context of green buildings
- Enumerate green building standards and benchmarks
Who Should Attend!
- If you are associated with the building industry either on the design side or the construction side, this course is relevant for you.
- If you have been intrigued about green buildings, but wanted to learn the fundamentals, you can consider this as a foundation course
- If you are currently studying architecture, and interested in sustainability, this course is a primer for you.
- If you are an architect and want to design green buildings, this course is just for you !