Professional Continuing Education Programs
Next-Generation Green Building Technologies
Wednesday, June 2 - 8:30am – Noon
Instructor: George Elvin
Education Units: Approved for AIA HSW/SD and pending for AICP for 3.5 education units. This course also qualifies for Indiana State Registration professional education requirements for architects and landscape architects.
Cost: $91 ($26/hour)
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Green building is growing exponentially as the federal government and major cities join private owners in requiring new buildings to meet stringent sustainability benchmarks. To meet this surge in demand, designers are employing not only proven clean technologies like wind and solar power, but remarkable new ones emerging from universities and research centers. The course will offer insight into dozens of new clean technologies for green building, including insulating aerogels, self-cleaning windows and facades, organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), thin-film solar cell technologies, and more. Participants will learn how such advances create significant improvements in human health and environmental health while presenting major economic opportunities as well.
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Identify new technologies and materials for green building.
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Analyze the applicability of new technologies for architectural and interior applications.
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Evaluate a variety of new technologies and materials for potential economic, environmental and health costs and benefits.
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Synthesize the potential of new technologies and materials with other considerations in architecture and interior design.
Cost-Effective Green Building
Wednesday, June 9 - 8:30am – Noon
Instructor: George Elvin
Education Units: Approved for AIA HSW/SD and pending for AICP for 3.5 education units. This course also qualifies for Indiana State Registration professional education requirements for architects and landscape architects.
Cost: $91 ($26/hour)
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Learn the latest tools and techniques for designing a green or LEED-certified building without breaking the budget. Through in-depth analysis and case studies, participants will explore financial assessment and cost-benefit analysis techniques to determine payback periods for green building technologies. The course will also cover methods to improve energy efficiency in existing buildings as well as the latest advances in on-site renewable energy, sustainable site design, water conservation, indoor air quality, green materials, building controls and lighting.
- Identify low- and no-cost LEED credits for new and existing buildings.
- Define money-saving techniques for improving energy efficiency in both new and existing buildings.
- Analyze life-cycle costing and valuation techniques for new and existing buildings.
- Utilize financial assessment and cost-benefit analysis techniques for determining payback periods for green building technologies.
- Evaluate cost-effective strategies for greening existing buildings through efficient operation, energy auditing and reporting.
Greening Existing Buildings
Wednesday, June 16 - 8:30am – Noon
Instructor: George Elvin
Education Units: Approved for AIA HSW/SD for 3.5 education units. This course also qualifies for Indiana State Registration professional education requirements for architects and landscape architects.
Cost: $91 ($26/hour)
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Architects, owners, and facility managers are facing increasing demands to reduce energy consumption in existing buildings. This half-day workshop will help participants identify valuable tax credits and green rating credits , better understand federal and municipal green building requirements for existing buildings, and uncover cost-saving strategies for reducing energy use and operating costs.. As a result, participants will understand the costs and benefits of green strategies including lighting, insulation, sustainable site design, water conservation, indoor air quality improvement, green materials, and building controls. The course will also examine innovative practices including energy monitoring and green leasing.
- Identify tax credits and green rating credits for existing buildings.
- Examine energy-efficient heating and cooling options.
- Analyze methods for conserving and managing water and energy.
- Identify techniques for greening building exteriors.
- Understand the costs and benefits of specific green building strategies and technologies for existing buildings.
Visualization for a Healthier Community
Wednesday, June 23 - 5pm - 7pm
Instructor: Brian Harvey
Education Units: Submitted for AIA HSW/SD and AICP for 2 education units. This course also qualifies for Indiana State Registration professional education requirements for architects and landscape architects.
Cost: $52 ($26/hour)
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Geographic information systems, or GIS as it is commonly known, has made advanced yet easily understood representations of urban and regional plans possible. A relatively recent development is the use of 3-D visualizations of these plans to make them more interesting and comprehensible to the public and planners alike. This course will examine this latest use of visualization by taking some current and planned examples to show what the technology can do in terms of envisioning certain planned outcomes. Examples will include a transit sketch tool and its use of visualization to build out a public transportation infrastructure locally and regionally and a water impacts tool and its use of visualization to plan a water system to better serve a rapidly growing county outside of Sacramento, California. A local area of Indianapolis also under redevelopment will be chosen to show how visualization can be used to better represent and understand its development potential.
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Understand 3-D visualization abilities and techniques in GIS software.
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Identify ways 3-D visualization can enhance the designer or planner’s ability to make educated decisions and the public’s ability to understand complex systems.
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Identify scenarios where visualization can be used in the planning and design process.