LEED Rating System For Green Buildings

In LEED Rating System For Green Buildings, you'll learn ...

• LEED Project Eligibility, Registration and Certification Process
• LEED Credit Interpretation Ruling and Appeal Process
• LEED Prerequisites
• Credit Points and Rating Scale

Overview

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Credit: 7 CPD

Length: 87 pages

A "green" building is a building that is energy and resource efficient, non-wasteful and non-polluting, flexible and adaptable for long-term functionality, easy to operate and maintain, and is supportive of the productivity and well being of the occupants. So-called green buildings are constructed or renovated under sustainable development, a design process that reduces the harmful impact on natural resources and looks at the life-cycle costs of the facility.

Historically, how to define and standardize the green building was a long term challenge until the advent of the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED™) Green Building Rating System. This system is on the minds of many people in the building industry these days, and employers are looking to bolster their green credentials any way possible, including having employees that are LEED accredited.

This seven-hour course provides relevant and insightful information on the LEED Green Building Rating System. This course will benefit anyone preparing for the LEED Professional Accreditation Exam, as well as experienced building industry practitioners who want to add LEED projects to their portfolio of professional services.

Engineers, architects, building owners, facility managers, interior designers, landscape architects, construction managers, energy auditors, and educators who work in the building industry will benefit from this course, as will professionals who wish to take the LEED AP exam.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Explain LEED project eligibility, registration and certification process.
• Describe LEED credit interpretation ruling and appeal process.
• Identify LEED prerequisites.
• Analyze credit points and rating scale.
• Evaluate LEED sustainable sites.
• Apply relevant principles to construction activity pollution prevention.
• Assess site selection.
• Summarize development density.
• Outline community connectivity and brownfield redevelopment.
• Interpret alternative transportation.
• Compare key aspects of heat island effect and light pollution reduction.
• Distinguish key features of LEED innovative wastewater technologies.
• Relate LEED water use reduction to applicable engineering or project decisions.
• Classify the principal elements associated with LEED energy performance.
• Select appropriate approaches for LEED refrigerant management.
• Determine applicable criteria for LEED measurement and verification.
• Verify requirements associated with LEED green power.
• Develop an approach for addressing LEED material and resources.
• Recommend appropriate approaches for storage and collection of recyclables.
• Prioritize key considerations for LEED material and resources reuse and renewable materials.
• Justify decisions related to LEED Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) performance.
• Differentiate among alternatives associated with LEED environment tobacco smoke control.
• Recognize conditions and features associated with LEED outdoor air delivery monitoring and increased ventilation.
• Correlate LEED low-emitting materials with relevant design or performance outcomes.
• Organize the key information associated with LEED thermal comfort and daylighting.
• Formulate an approach for addressing LEED innovation in design.
• Validate conclusions related to LEED Accredited Professional.

Certificate of Completion

You will be able to immediately print a certificate of completion after passing a multiple-choice quiz consisting of 65 questions. CPD credits are not awarded until the course is completed and quiz is passed.