This course is designed to help those working on a LEED project team learn how to handle cost issues to build more environmentally and economically sound projects. Information on construction and life-cycle costs are introduced using LEED certified project case studies and current research data. The course also provides tools to calculate and evaluate the costs and benefits of LEED certification and strategies to maximize resource selections.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
After completing this course, you will be able to:

• Understand importance of clearly expressed client goals on a green project.
• Calculate cost/benefit of building green
• Communicate associated benefits to clients seeking a green building
• Use tools to calculate and evaluate cost/benefit of LEED Certification

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INSTRUCTOR

Adele Houghton, AIA, is principal of Adele Houghton Consulting, a sustainability consulting company specializing in solutions for the design and construction industry, developers, nonprofits and government agencies committed to integrating health and environmental concerns into building, planning, and policy. From 2005 to 2008, Adele served as Project Manager and Pilot Project Coordinator of the Green Guide for Health Care, a voluntary, best practices building toolkit tailored to the health care environment. Adele directed several major revisions to the Green Guide’s Construction and Operations sections, in addition to developing and coordinating the Green Guide’s well-received education program. Adele also ran the marketing, publicity, and administrative elements of the program and led research projects associated with the Green Guide, such as the GGHC Pilot Report, published in 2007. Prior to joining the Green Guide, Adele acted as an in-house green building consultant for Kirksey, a leading architecture firm in Houston, Texas. Adele is a licensed Architect in the State of Texas; a member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA); a member of the Austin, TX, Chapter of the AIA Committee on the Environment (COTE); chair of the 2008 Gulf Coast Green conference (hosted by AIA Houston COTE); and, a member of the Balcones Chapter of the US Green Building Council. Adele Houghton Consulting is a member of the U.S. Green Building Council.

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