RedVector's Industry-leading Online Course Library Offers the Very Best in Sustainable Design Courses
With more than 1,100 industry-leading online CE & PDH courses, RedVector is your first choice for Sustainable Design Courses. For over 11 years, RedVector has delivered more than 1.6 million hours of interactive online CE course and inservices to design and construction professionals in a convenient online format available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. All of our Sustainable Design courses are developed to meet state board requirements and professional organization obligations and accreditations.
Green Design: Introduction to Sustainable Design Materials and Resources
3 Hours | $119.85
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.
LEED Certification and Green Building: An Introduction
1 Hour | $26.95
"Go Green!" This statement has become very popular over the past few years. You have seen it in advertisements, on shopping bags, on television, and in a wide variety of other sources. People have developed a strong awareness of how they are impacting the world. With the increasing concern about the environment, energy conservation and potential global warming, the push for green design and construction has grown dramatically in the last couple years. Along with this drive, there has been a desire to create agencies and accreditation programs that support and govern green building.
Sustainable Design - A Primer
2 Hours | $53.90
This two-hour online interactive course is intended to introduce the concept of "sustainable" or "green" design to both architects and engineers of all disciplines. The course serves only as a primer on the concepts involved with this topic, and is not intended to provide in-depth information on the process used to become a specialist in this arena. The course will identify available resource materials that can be ordered via the Internet or at different booksellers locally and nationally, as well as various programs now available for use as an aid in the design of sustainable building projects.
Sustainable Design - An Integrated Process
2 Hours | $53.90
Most design and construction project teams have already heard and applied the concepts of "sustainability" or "green" to some degree in their building projects. The concepts are becoming more and more widely adopted by government and private agencies across the U.S. in all aspects of design and construction, daily business and home life.
Sustainable Design - Masonry
2 Hours | $53.90
This 2-hour interactive online course is intended to help building designers understand how the use of masonry materials is considered sustainable or green. The course looks briefly at some of the history of masonry usage, the attributes of masonry as a building component, and the basic construction of masonry. The course introduces some of the basic tenets of sustainability, specifically how it relates to the design and construction industry, and includes a comparison of these characteristics with the requirements of the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Program. The course provides a simple set of recommendations on accepting masonry as the material of choice for construction and tips on how to include the aspects of sustainability into construction documents.
Sustainable Design - Materials
3 Hours | $80.85
This 3-hour online course is intended to help building designers understand what is required to define a material as sustainable or green. The course looks briefly at the various characteristics that are part of these definitions, and considers how some of these characteristics may be at conflict with one another. Several material examples are reviewed to see how they comply with some of these characteristics. The course includes a comparison of these characteristics with the requirements of the certified building programs, specifically the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Program. The course also identifies available resource materials that can be used to help with these material evaluations. These resources are available via the Internet or other locations and include software programs available for use as an aid in the design and selection of sustainable building projects and their materials.
Sustainable Design: Eco-efficiency of Roofing Insulation Systems
1 Hour | $26.95
This 1-hour interactive online course explores several popular roofing insulation systems - Expanded polystyrene (EPS), Polyisocyanurate (Polyiso), Extruded polystyrene (XPS), and Sprayed Polyurethane Foam (SPF) - and discusses the influences each one has on sustainable design.