Sustainable Buildings

Learn about sustainability, how it relates to the built environment, and how buildings contribute to climate change.

The ways in which buildings can be made more energy efficient and greener through recommissioning, retrofitting, renewing, and other technologies and initiatives will be examined in this course.
Basic energy calculations and terminology will be introduced along with potential strategies for energy use reduction. An awareness of regulations, local policies and sustainability standards will be emphasized with a view to future planning and retrofitting.

Prerequisites

What you will learn

• Overview of sustainability, including corporate social responsibility
  Climate change and emissions (sources, units, net emissions)
  Basic energy calculations and heat gain/loss (e.g. solar, ventilation)
  Energy efficiency standards (e.g. policies and regulations)
  Energy Use Index (EUI) and benchmarking
  Carbon footprint, energy audits and saving measures
  Building inputs and outputs, enclosure control layers
  Health and wellness of occupants and rating systems (e.g. Fitwel and International Well Building Institute)
  Sustainability standards
  ‘Green retrofitting’, e.g. heat recovery, low carbon electrification, ZEV infrastructure
  Waste management

How to register

This course is offered as part of a VCC program only.

Contact us

If you have any question, please email at advising@vcc.ca.

† This information is intended as a guideline only. Program and course details are subject to change with the approval of VCC's Board of Governors.