Creating Healthier Buildings
Today, many standard materials use chemicals and substances that are known to have environmental and health impacts. Learn which standard building materials could have issues and how to create a process to help clients identify the areas of potential concern.
HVAC – The critical element in a health and energy efficient home
Choosing an environmental system without assessing its suitability can be costly. Learn how to assess the performance of an HVAC system and the critical elements in its design. Also highlighted is other issues critical to the building envelop such as air tightness, natural ventilation, new technologies and systems integration.
12 Steps to Sustainability
Sustainability is the inevitable trend in building. Learn what the major areas are and easy ways to integrate them into your project. Understand the importance of setting priorities and how doing so can actually save in the building process and well beyond. Green building doesn’t have to cost more, and in the end, you save more than money.
Building Green in the Real World
Green Building is a hot topic and there are plenty of programs out there to accomplish green building with or without certification. But to use these programs successfully requires some interpretation as well as understanding the impact of each. A basic overview of Green Building programs, products, and tricks to do green techniques for the same price as non-green options.