Energy Efficient Building Design

In Energy Efficient Building Design, you'll learn ...

• Energy efficiency concepts
• The factors affecting energy consumption
• The benefits of a low-energy building

Overview

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Credit: 4 CPD

Length: 53 pages

This four-hour course covers energy efficiency concepts for commercial buildings and how to incorporate these concepts to provide a low-energy building. Using the ideas presented in this course may help to reduce energy consumption up to 30% over a conventional commercial building. The course, explains the basic concepts, where and how in the design process they should be considered and gives a couple of examples where the results were applied and yielded significant energy cost savings.

Learning Objectives

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

• Define key energy efficiency concepts.
• Identify the factors that affect energy consumption.
• Explain the benefits of a low-energy building.
• Describe how to integrate energy efficiency into the planning process.
• Identify the benefits of daylighting.
• Explain how facade design affects energy consumption.

Certificate of Completion

You will be able to immediately print a certificate of completion after passing a multiple-choice quiz consisting of 25 questions. CPD credits are not awarded until the course is completed and quiz is passed.