Ozone protection with green building rating systems (Bangla)
What you'll learn
- Understand how buildings impact ozone depletion
- Enumerate green building rating systems in Asia Pacific
- Discover its potential in the uptake of low-GWP alternatives
- Describe how phaseout can be achieved in the building sector
Requirements
- You should be familiar with building design and common terms used in the building sector
Description
This course is approved for 0.5 GBCI CE credit.
Majority of the ozone depleting substances (ODS) are used as refrigerants in buildings in air conditioning and refrigeration equipment. It is essential to reduce the cooling demand of buildings in order to directly reduce the refrigerant use in the equipment. Further, using low-GWP refrigerants will help avoiding the lock-in of high GWP alternatives in buildings, even if they are zero-ODP; which are ultimately damaging to the environment. Green building rating systems address both these aspects.
Asia Pacific is home to half of the world’s new construction and consequently a large contributor to global building emissions. Green buildings are gaining a lot of important in the region. Interestingly, 12 countries in the Asia Pacific continue to use their indigenous green building rating systems in addition to the presence of LEED in the region. Some of them even have a stringent requirement for the use of refrigerants in buildings; For example GREENMARK of Singapore requires that the GWP of the refrigerant should be less than 100.
This course enumerates all the green building rating systems being used in the Asia Pacific region and how each of them is addressing the ozone depletion issue. The course is designed in handy modules with high-quality visuals and engaging content. At the end of the course, you’ll have the clarity in how green buildings can influence the uptake of low-GWP alternatives as refrigerants.
This is the last course in the series developed on ozone depletion and climate change. The first two courses are
1) Green buildings and ozone depletion
2) Ozone and Climate Friendly Policies in Asia Pacific Building Sector
By completing all three courses, you will have a well-rounded understanding of how buildings are major contributors to ozone depletion and how buildings also offer solutions to achieve both ozone protection and climate change mitigation. You will also be able to enumerate different policies and programs and their status in the Asia Pacific region that can be instrumental to achieve the Montreal protocol phaseout targets. Further, you can describe how green building ratings across different countries in the Asia Pacific region address the use of ozone depleting substances through its compliance requirement.
Who this course is for:
- Anyone interested in learning about the environmental impact of buildings should take this course
- If you are curious to learn about 'ozone hole' or 'ozone layer depletion' should take this course.
- If you are familiar with green buildings and know of rating systems, you can get an interesting perspective
Instructors
Environmental Design Solutions [EDS] is a sustainability advisory firm focusing on the built environment. Since its inception in 2002, EDS has worked on over 350 green building and energy efficiency projects worldwide. The diverse milieu of its team of experts converges on climate change mitigation policies, energy efficient building design, building code development, energy efficiency policy development, energy simulation and green building certification.
EDS has been active in the growing green building industry of
Bangladesh since four years providing green building consulting to many
projects. These high quality courses are intended to reach out to the
growing pool of professionals in Bangladesh who can build their skills
and knowledge to stay current in the industry. These courses are
designed by experts from EDS who are experienced in teaching high
quality in-person and
online courses.
Passionate about creating a sustainable built environment, Deepa brings international work experience along with interdisciplinary educational background. She graduated with a Master of Building Science from the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles and a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the Institute of Environmental Design, India. Deepa is a LEED Accredited Professional, ECBC Master Trainer, USGBC Faculty and a member of the Society of Building Science Educators (SBSE).
Over 11 years, Deepa has worked on projects in the US and India with a focus on bridging the gap between building design and technology. At EDS Pvt Ltd, she works high performance building design, building energy simulations, policy and research and green building certifications. Deepa leads the Sustainability Education team developing e-learning programs for professional development in sustainability as well as training and capacity building for organisations.