Think Beyond Diplomas and Credentials
GBRI Sustainability Certificate Program
From college students to young graduates, to teachers and seasoned professionals – GBRI’s workforce training and certification programs are for everyone! Learning never ends. Pick up where you left or start a new journey. The journey to become a sustainability guru begins here.
GBRI sustainability certificate programs stand out from credentials as they display more than a member’s ability to pass an exam. The certification program is our means of rewarding individuals for all of their hard work in a way that advances their reputation, motivates continuous growth, and displays a strong commitment to climate change, social equity, energy equity, and many other topics vital toward building a green and equitable world.
GBRI Climate Change Ambassador
From environmental to social impacts, climate change is changing more than the global temperature. Not only does climate change impact daily life, but it’s also driving us apart. From individual health to ecological balance, understanding climate change in all aspects, is the first step in being part of the solution. GBRI is excited to announce its first sustainability badge with 3 levels that enable you to progress steadily, become an expert, and display your accomplishments as you progress on your sustainability path.
Social Equity Ambassador Program
In a perfect world, we would have social equality that ensured that we all receive the same opportunities, regardless of our identity. Unfortunately, social equality is something that we struggle with to this day. The lack of equality affects many people around the world, examples of which you can see in your history books, as well as on TV today. While we have made some big steps in the right direction, we still have a long way to go.
Listed here are the objectives of our Social Equity course series. By completing this course, you’ll earn our Social Equity Badge that you can share on social media platforms.
–Understand the difference between equity and equality.
–Analyze why is there inequality & inequity in this world and understand who does inequality & inequity effect, and explore where can inequality & inequity be seen.
–Understand and learn how we can all support equality & equity in our daily lives.
While this course series may not answer all our questions and concerns about this topic, this is a good start for our journey to create a more equitable world.
This badge is also part of GBRI’s International Sustainability Teachers program that we encourage you to check out.
ISP
GBRI International Sustainability Program (ISP) is a 12-week program for final year Architecture/Engineering students and recent graduates. Participants will attend weekly online meetings and are required to spend 15-20 hours a week on sustainability research, sustainable design, and green building case studies, create, develop and deliver sustainability courses, and get acclimated to green building rating systems such as LEED, LBC, and WELL. Participants will also enhance their public speaking skills by watching guest speakers and presenting a topic of their choice during one of the online meetings.
Certified Instructor Program
Whether it’s teaching about energy efficiency, climate change, or social equity, educators play a crucial role in molding children to be part of an ever-changing world. Empowered educators have proven to not only lead by an example, but also lay the groundwork for the generational shift we need today.
GBRI’s International Sustainability Teachers Program is for teachers, faculty members, and industry professionals who believe that a truly sustainable future must also be an equitable one where every human is treated equally and fairly, regardless of race, gender, or background.
The overall objective of this program is to empower and support educators to integrate sustainability education in all forms into their current curriculum for all areas of education. This program provides courses, articles, resources, news and events, and stories of change for educators. In addition, teachers will have access to our customizable sustainability school curriculum for K-12 students.
Our goal is to make sustainability education accessible to students worldwide!
Workforce Training
Interested in starting your sustainability journey and don’t know where to begin? Let us be your guiding light. For a truly sustainable and equitable world, we must empower our workforce to create positive, meaningful changes in our daily professional and personal lives. The role infrastructure and buildings play in all of this cannot be ignored and the design of new green buildings and optimizing existing buildings will undoubtedly create more jobs. But are students and professionals prepared to meet this demand?
This is where GBRI workforce training will help to bridge the gap between academic learning and industry expectations.
GBRI offers 3 tracks of workforce training:
