Energy Star for Green Buildings
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Courses
Energy Modeling for Green Buildings
This course explores the topic of energy modeling and the availability of free energy modeling software like eQuest for green building design.
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Elements of a Green Home: Materials & Water
This part of the course will discuss how the materials installed in a home will effect the comfort and health of residents as well as the global environment, and will look at how water is used and may be conserved in the home.
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Elements of a Green Home: IEQ and Innovation
This specific course is part two in our three-part series that introduces the LEED for Homes rating system. In this installation, we will look at issues related to indoor environments and at the design innovation involved in residential construction.
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Elements of a Green Home: Sites & Energy
The course explores how to use green technology and systems in home building and renovation. The course also includes lessons learned from building San Antonio’s first LEED Platinum town home projects.
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Economics of Green Building
The course will highlight where the costs for green building come in, and where projects can find savings from green interventions.
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Down the Runway: Energy Modeling
This course will examine the background of energy modeling, the importance and drivers of energy simulation, energy efficiency strategies and how they are modeled using the latest technologies and the process of simulating energy performance.
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Demystifying Embodied Energy
This course demystifies embodied energy and identifies what you need to know before sourcing materials for green building projects. The course also reviews how LEED v4 addresses embodied energy, and especially in the Materials and Resources section.
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Daylighting For Green Buildings
This course identifies and analyzes natural lighting or daylighting as a sustainable design and practice option for green building projects (Building Design and Construction, Operations & Maintenance).
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Building Information Modeling
This course is designed to be an overview of BIM applications and functionality, particularly as it relates to the green building industry. It will begin by looking at the problems that BIM was developed to solve,and then move on to the uses and benefits that BIM can offer a project.
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