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Welcome to the quiz portion of When Passive House Goes Big!
Learning Objectives
Upon completing this course, participants will be able to:
Evaluate the main barriers to achieving the Passive House Standard on a large, urban project.
Identify design strategies for successfully and cost-effectively achieving the... Read more
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Hi Green Friends - I hesitated to post on April Fools, but wanted to get the link out for folks to share with their netowrks I'll be teaching a workshop at the Pacific Energy Center on May 11 on Electrification Retrofits of Exisitng Non-Residential Buildings. I'll be bulidng on the great work our sub-committee led by Allison has been... Read more
Quiz
Welcome to the quiz portion of Making Your Own Electricity: Onsite Photovoltaic Systems.
Learning Objectives
Upon completing this course, participants will be able to:
1. Explain the difference between crystalline and thin-film photovoltaic technologies, and the uses of each.
2. Describe the ways in which PV... Read more
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Hello Green Gurus!
Quick introduction as this is my first time posting - Louis Koehl, AIA, CPHD, Director of Sustainable Design at Handel Architects, based in NY. I recently joined the SDL Forum and met some of you at the regional summit and Greenbuild. I'm excited to continue to connect with such an influential group!
My... Read more
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Welcome! We are updating our popular WELL Study Guide and Practice Exams to reflect IWBI's new WELL v2 exam, and expect the new materials to be available for you by mid JUNE 2022. Please watch your email for the announcement and check back!
The v2 version is a substantial change from... Read more
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The ASHRAE Conference staff is looking for more architecture sustainability leadership for planning their Integrated Design & Construction Conference (i'm sure they'd take contractors too!). The staff do almost all of the logistics themselves but they want thought leadership from across the industry to guide the focus, content.
See... Read more
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Greetings!
Back again re: the work we're doing with City of Cambridge, in their great leadership efforts to develop EC policy/regs/incentives and reporting requirements.
Thanks to those who responded earlier about the effort it takes you to conduct WBLCA - now we're diving into it in more depth and wanting to get together a focus... Read more
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Per our discussion on today's SMEP call, it would be interesting to have a more in-depth discussion on Indoor Air Quality. Questions I have personally...
What experiences are people seeing on the design side - IAQP vs VRP? How can we advocate more for IAQ performance testing in existing buildings? (e.g. LEED and WELL) What types of tests... Read moreForum topic
Hi All,
I’m pulling together a Healthy Building Summit in Boston on August 14th. Check it out here. http://usgbcma.org/hbs18/
Nadav is moderating! It would be great to have some of you great leaders in attendance. We still have sponsorship opportunities. Let me know if you are interested.
-Meredith
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Hey there hive mind,
We went looking through LEEDuser to try and find some direction and didn't find much so I thought I'd bring my team's question here to all of you smart people. We're working on a non-combustion central plant tied to a geothermal field and grid electricity. The project has cooling towers and their associated chemical... Read more
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Hello, All, Is anyone familiar with One Click LCA software and resources? Similarities/differences from a Tally or Athena approach? Many thanks!
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Hi Green Gurus!
We’ve gotten GREAT feedback and input from many of you via the survey about our planned fall events. You expressed a lot of interest in all the events we proposed: a series of in-depth Integrative Design Jams, separate Summits for SDL and SCL, and regional all-network workshops, starting with one in Boston—so we’re moving... Read more
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Guiding questions:
There are so many topics under 'Sustainability' - what do we focus on? How do SD Leaders allocate their time? What technologies, resources and staff do we utilize to meet our goals? How do we infiltrate the office and make more people want to be a part of what we do? There are so many topics under 'Sustainability' -... Read moreForum topic
Seeking Pros/Cons, Feedback/Commentary about signing the US Architects Declare Commitment.
https://us.architectsdeclare.com/
Reviewing against the "shoulds" and "shalls" of the 2020 AIA Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct ... and other commitments that are out there ... any feedback welcome.
Tips for how your workflow... Read more