Sustainability through Landscape Design

Name: Sustainability through Landscape Design
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A primer on sustainable landscape design techniques

Created byEDS Global

Last updated 10/2018

English

What you'll learn

Identify different elements in landscape design
Distinguish between sustainable and unsustainable landscape practices
Use landscape strategies to enhance green building performance
Incorporate landscape to improve indoor environmental quality

Course content

1 section • 5 lectures • 42m total length

Introduction2:30
Explore sustainability through landscape design by examining the basic elements, landscape factors, and strategies that support sustainable discourse, green lendings, and green interiors.
What is landscape design?10:14
Explore how landscape design blends vegetation, softscape and hardscape with built elements to create usable outdoor spaces that optimize ecosystem services and sustainability.
Environmental impact of landscapes11:47
Explore how landscapes impact the environment through air quality, cooling by shade and evaporate transportation, groundwater recharge, and sustainable water use.
Landscapes and green buildings12:03
Learn how landscape strategies boost sustainable building performance with native plants, water conservation, permeable paving, green roofs, and on-site food production to support ecosystems and reduce energy use.
Landscapes and sustainable interiors5:35
Discover how landscape elements inside buildings improve indoor environmental quality by boosting air quality, reducing VOCs like benzene and formaldehyde, and lowering noise with strategically placed plants.
End of Course Quiz

Requirements

No prior knowledge of green building design is required
You don't need prior knowledge of landscape design either
You should have a basic understanding of building design and processes

Description

This course is approved for 0.5 GBCI Continuation Education (CE) credits. After completing the course you can report your credit towards LEED credential maintenance.

Often landscape design is correlated with sustainability. Landscapes connect humans directly to natural systems, while providing a setting for different kinds of uses. At the same time, it’s important to ensure that the landscape itself preserve the local ecology, hydrology and biodiversity. For that, landscapes must be viewed as more than just an aesthetic add-on.

This course will introduce you to sustainable landscape design and prepare you to distinguish between favourable and unfavourable landscape practices. Further, you’ll learn how these strategies can be leveraged to optimize green building performance.

If you want to explore landscape strategies that can complement green building design, this course is right for you!

At the end of the course, you’ll be able to chalk out a sustainability plan for landscape design in your LEED project.

Who this course is for:

If you're a building designer and are keen on integrating landscape into your project, this course is for you
If you're a landscape designer and want to learn how landscapes can contribute to sustainability, this course is for you
If you want to integrate landscape into green building project, this courses is for you
If you're a student with a keen interest in sustainability and want to explore how landscape relates to green built environments, this course is for you