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Green Design: Introduction to Integral Sustainable Design Theory
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Though the concepts covered are fundamental to full-fledged Sustainable Design, they challenge the participant on an advanced level. The course is not designed to deepen specific knowledge about LEED topics. Instead, the course places LEED into its larger context and thereby helps the LEED AP better understand the other non-technical perspectives on sustainability. As such, it provides the possibility for you to communicate with and better understand the design team members who are not working with the purely technical aspects of design.
The course covers all of the major ways of thinking about sustainable design. We will use an Integral lens to view SD from four fundamental perspectives: Technology, Ecology, Art, and Culture. We will also examine the four major contemporary worldviews on SD: Traditional, Modern, Post-modern, and Integral. In doing so, the Integral approach offers the designer the potential for using a better map of the SD terrain.
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Green Design: Introduction to Sustainability and Measurement Systems
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"Achieving sustainable development is perhaps one of the most difficult and one of the most pressing goals we face. It requires on the part of all of us commitment, action, partnerships and, sometimes, sacrifices of our traditional life patterns and personal interests."
In this 1-hour interactive online course, we discuss the concept of sustainability and the need for ways to rate the sustainability of a building design. In addition, the course describes three rating systems developed by the US Green Building Council Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) and the goals each strives to achieve: LEED for New Construction (NC), LEED for Existing Buildings (EB) and LEED for Commercial Interiors (CI).
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Green Design: Introduction to Sustainable Design Materials and Resources
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Materials with low environmental impact that contribute to the creation of healthful, energy efficient buildings both now and in the future have the affect of moving our system of construction toward a condition of sustainability. This 3-hour interactive course is intended to be an introduction to the study of those materials and techniques that are both ecologically efficient and ecologically effective.
Topics covered include: life-cycle analysis and defining characteristics of sustainable materials, environmental, economic, cultural, and aesthetic benefits, selection and analysis techniques, design for material and building reuse, construction waste management, regional and renewable resources, certified wood, and an overview of LEED materials & resources credits.
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Green Design: Introduction to Sustainable Sites
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Architects think about buildings. Our experience and training often predispose us to see buildings as isolated objects. Buildings insistently hold our attention to the exclusion of all else. For us, too often the building is the project. Yet, for the architect who wishes to practice in a green manner, the focus must be broadened. By its very nature sustainability deals with interconnections between natural phenomena and human interventions across multiple scales. True green design demands that we look beyond buildings to understand both how projects are shaped by wider concerns and how our decisions affect the broader world. As such, a reconsideration of how one approaches site design is often a first step on the path to a greener mode of practice
This 1-hour interactive online course provides students with the conceptual foundation necessary for exploring many aspects of environmentally progressive site design. Aspects of site sustainability covered in the course include water, solar environment, natural ventilation, transportation, and civic patterns. Each is considered at a variety of scales ranging from the individual parcel to the neighborhood and placed within larger regional and global contexts. In this way, students are equipped to immediately begin making ecologically informed decisions about the site design of their projects, while simultaneously preparing themselves for further, more detailed study of various issues related to site sustainability.
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Green Design: Introduction to Sustainable Water Systems I
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It is often said when discussing sustainable practices that people need to think globally and act locally. This is especially true when dealing with water resources. Unlike any other resource, water cycles through the earth’s environments at global and continental scales, but at each step of that journey serves as a highly valued local resource. This is the first course in the sustainable approach to water in buildings, sites, and campuses series. It systematically introduces key concepts that help professionals understand the larger watershed and community water systems that local development practices impact, and the cultural, social, economic, and health benefits communities derive from earth’s water systems.
This 2-hour interactive online course also introduces the consequences of conflicts between current development practices and these water systems and emerging developments practices that work better with, and have a lower-impact on watershed systems. Brief overviews of the LEED WE ratings and low-impact practices including water conservation and recycling, stormwater, water harvesting are included to help orient professionals to practices they may wish to learn more about. Lastly, the course wraps up with some examples of how strategies introduced in the lesson can contribute to and express the natural, cultural, social, and aesthetic character of places.
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Green Design: Levels of Complexity Theory
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This 3-hour interactive online course continues the development of study in Integral Sustainable Design Theory. Students examine four levels of evolving complexity for Sustainable Design. You will investigate each level of complexity for each of the Four Foundational Perspectives of Sustainable Design covered in the Introduction to Integral Sustainable Design Theory. The 16 Prospects of Sustainable Design outline the multiple approaches to the discipline with profuse illustrations and examples. The information presented in this course elaborates on the theory of sustainable design in architecture, and does not include practical instructions for design or construction of buildings.
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Green Design: Perspectives on Innovation
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This one-hour online course provides designers, architects, contractors, and other related professionals involved in the design and construction industry with a basic understanding of the potential for innovation in sustainable design.
Since the Innovation in Design Credit (ID) is one of the more vaguely defined credits in the LEED structure, course discussion focuses on the process of sustainable design and the issues in our culture and industry that can be challenged in the search for ecologically innovative tactics and strategies. LEED offers many credits as isolated points for decreasing a structure’s ecological footprint, but to innovate one must combine and relate all of the potential design moves into one system in which the moves work in unison on multiple related cultural and technical levels.
Throughout this course the student will understand that the process of innovation in design is not just about specific design moves, but the relationship amongst them all. This involves a process of examining each potential material, spatial or technological idea to identify the possible effects on not only other systems within the structure, but also on society, and building life cycle and energy use.
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Green Infrastructure 1: Introduction to High Performance Guidelines
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Infrastructure is the complex, interdependent system that supports our way of life. You can take advantage of a wide range of opportunities to build and re-build a “Green” Infrastructure. This interactive online course gives you the facts about why "Green" is cost effective, healthy and visually appealing. In this course you will find current examples of successful Green applications as well as principles and practices that you can use to develop your own comprehensive plans.
This course is the first of an eight course series on Green Infrastructure that provides a template for design and implementation of Green Building concepts applicable to cities and municipalities. It is recommended that you take this course prior to the other courses in the series:
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Green Infrastructure 2: Best Practices for Site Assessment
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This course is one of an eight course series on Green Infrastructure that provides a template for design and implementation of Green Building concepts applicable to cities and municipalities. This interactive online course is the second in the series and gives you the information and action items for assessing sites and identifying opportunities to implement Best Management Practices (BMPs) in “Green” planning, design and construction
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Green Infrastructure 3: Best Practices for Streetscape
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Infrastructure is the complex, interdependent system that supports our way of life. You can take advantage of a wide range of opportunities to build and re-build a "Green" Infrastructure - if you have the right template. This course is one of an eight course series on Green Infrastructure that provides a template for design and implementation of Green Building concepts applicable to cities and municipalities. This 2-hour interactive online course gives you the information and action items for assessing sites and identifying opportunities to implement Best Management Practices (BMPs) in “Green” planning, design and construction.
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