You can participate in the seminar from your office, home, or anywhere you have access to the internet and a phone. You'll have opportunities to interact with your instructor and colleagues in real time during the two live teleconferencing sessions.

ABOUT THE SEMINAR
What exactly are the criteria for defining a building as "green"? What are the economics and benefits of green construction or retrofit? And how can one determine whether a particular building or site is suitable for sustainable green design? This program will address these questions, and provide you with a fundamental understanding of the sustainable green building, the role of LEED, and how to approach a potential green building project.

What Is LEED?
Created by the U.S. Green Building Council in order to more clearly define "green building" and to create a framework for assessing building performance, the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Green Building Rating System™ is a voluntary, consensus-based national standard for developing high-performance, sustainable buildings.

What You'll Learn at This Program...
Beginning with an overview of sustainability, including the role of the U.S. Green Building Council and its LEED program, your instructor will fully explain the benefits of green buildings from the perspectives of the building owner, the occupants, and the community. Both objective and subjective benefits will be discussed, including such areas as overall economics, impact on employee productivity and learning environments for students, and better marketability of a facility.

You'll learn about the LEED New Contruction (NC) Rating System, including each of the five major categories of prerequisites and credits. You'll get the facts on how the design engineering team can account for more than half of the possible credits that make up a LEED certified facility. The instructor will provide you with a step-by-step overview of the building certification process -- and specifically, what to do once you have decided that you want to build a green building.

Also covered will be LEED for Existing Buildings (EB), examining how LEED EB differs from LEED NC, why its primary focus is on operations, and why it is of great importance to the energy management field. The specifics of the economics of LEED EB will be addressed, as well as the details of its system of prerequisites and credits.

This seminar is intended to provide a foundation of knowledge for those interested in learning more about LEED. For those who may be interested in pursuing further study and/or achieving LEED Accredited Professional status, the instructor will explain where to go from here.

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INSTRUCTOR: Nick Stecky, C.E.M., LEED Accredited Professional

FEES (per participant):
$495, regular / $445, AEE member, non-profit org.

NOTE: Seminar fees listed are per person for a single audio and video connection for individual use, and may not be shared with other users. All participants must individually pre-register for the desired course in order to participate. If you would like pricing information on multiple registrations for the same seminar, please contact: Valerie Oviatt, phone 770-925-9633, email: valerie@aeecenter.org



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