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Introduction to green buildings
Rating: 4.3 out of 5(180 ratings)
397 students

Introduction to green buildings

A primer to green building design
Created byEDS Global
Last updated 6/2020
English

What you'll 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

Course content

1 section • 5 lectures • 40m total length

  • Introduction2:16

    Explore green buildings and sustainable development as strategies to reduce environmental impacts of structures, detailing high-level design approaches and benchmarks that measure performance against environmental goals.

  • Environmental Impacts of Buildings5:13

    Explore how buildings impact the built environment across their life cycle, from material extraction to operation. Learn how green buildings mitigate energy use, emissions, water use, and indoor air pollutants.

  • What are green buildings?9:25

    Define green buildings through sustainability and the triple bottom line. Explore life-cycle design and rating systems like leed and breeam, with monitoring to cut energy and water use and costs.

  • Green Building Strategies14:00

    Explore sustainable design strategies for green buildings, including land use, passive solar design, energy and water efficiency, materials, indoor environmental quality, and renewable energy.

  • The Future of Green Buildings9:40

    Trace the evolution of green building benchmarks from 1987 sustainability to net zero energy, water, and carbon standards, highlighting regenerative buildings and healthier communities.

  • Assessment Test

Requirements

  • This is a beginner level course focused on green building design strategies. You do not need any prior experience or knowledge about green buildings. Being familiar with the building construction industry or studying architecture will be helpful

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. 

Who this course is for:

  • 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 !

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