Green Building for Building Professionals (2-day Course)

Your first step to becoming a Certified Green Professional

Learn how green homes provide buyers with lower energy costs and higher value. This 2-day course for building professionals discusses strategies for incorporating green-building principles into homes without driving up the cost of construction. You will learn how green homes provide buyers lower maintenance, better indoor air quality and better long-term value. Techniques are also discussed for competitively differentiating your home products with increased indoor environmental quality as well as energy and resource efficiency.

• Locate and design green building development sites.
• Control moisture and durability for each component of the building envelope effectively.
• Employ resource-efficient materials to achieve comfortable, safe and sustainable buildings.
• Strategize ways to meet, exceed and verify green building energy efficiency requirements.
• Implement indoor and outdoor water conservation practices.
• Achieve indoor air quality.
• Consider green building objectives in a remodeling project.
• Explain a homeowner’s and builder’s role in effective operation and maintenance of a green home.
• Apply successful business management, marketing and sales strategies to sell green.