Environmentally Sustainable Buildings

Environmentally Sustainable Buildings

• 1. Canadian Industrial Practices and Workplace Culture 0/6

  • Lesson 1.1
    Good industrial practices
  • Lesson 1.2
    Workplace safety
  • Lesson 1.3
    Canadian workplace culture and cultural intelligence
  • Lesson 1.4
    Getting job ready and keeping the job
  • Lesson 1.5
    Entrepreneurship and small business skills
  • Lesson 1.6
    Course overview, exam preparation and final exam

• 2. Energy Management 0/19

  • Lesson 2.1
    The need for energy management
  • Lesson 2.2
    Building energy use and performance
  • Lesson 2.3
    Building energy use and performance (continued)
  • Lesson 2.4
    Monitoring and targeting
  • Lesson 2.5
    Measurements, instrumentation and building automation system
  • Lesson 2.6
    Conducting an energy audit
  • Lesson 2.7
    Energy accounting in buildings and facilities
  • Lesson 2.8
    Energy rate structure
  • Lesson 2.9
    Electric rate structure
  • Lesson 2.10
    HVAC in building systems
  • Lesson 2.11
    Economics analysis and financing for energy management projects
  • Lesson 2.12
    Heating systems—steam and hot water generation and distribution
  • Lesson 2.13
    Waste heat recovery
  • Lesson 2.14
    Electrical energy management
  • Lesson 2.15
    Cogeneration (CHP)
  • Lesson 2.16
    Lighting
  • Lesson 2.17
    Energy codes and standards
  • Lesson 2.18
    Creating awareness in an organization
  • Lesson 2.19
    Course overview, exam preparation and final exam

• 3. Engineering project management 0/12

  • Lesson 3.1
    Introduction, project life cycle and management processes
  • Lesson 3.2
    Initiating a project
  • Lesson 3.3
    Project scope planning
  • Lesson 3.4
    Project scheduling and budgeting
  • Lesson 3.5
    Planning project integration
  • Lesson 3.6
    Executing a project
  • Lesson 3.7
    Monitoring and controlling a project
  • Lesson 3.8
    Closing a project
  • Lesson 3.9
    Life cycle cost (LCC) analysis
  • Lesson 3.10
    Tendering process
  • Lesson 3.11
    Contracting process
  • Lesson 3.12
    Course overview, exam preparation and final exam

• 4. Environmental regulations and standards 0/13

  • Lesson 4.1
    Environmental legislation and regulations-background
  • Lesson 4.2
    Environmental regulation and hazards
  • Lesson 4.3
    Environmental laws and regulations—federal
  • Lesson 4.4
    Environmental laws and regulations—provincial
  • Lesson 4.5
    Climate change and renewable energy—provincial
  • Lesson 4.6
    Toxics reduction and air quality—provincial
  • Lesson 4.7
    Water pollution and spills
  • Lesson 4.8
    Toxic and other waste and land remediation—provincial
  • Lesson 4.9
    Municipal environmental protocols and aboriginal issues
  • Lesson 4.10
    Enforcement of environmental and liability
  • Lesson 4.11
    Environmental impact assessment
  • Lesson 4.12
    Risk assessment and environmental audits
  • Lesson 4.13
    Course overview, exam preparation and final exam

• 5. Indoor air quality 0/10

  • Lesson 5.1
    Overview of indoor air quality requirement
  • Lesson 5.2
    New ASHARE standards 62-2001 and 52.2-1999
  • Lesson 5.3
    New ASHARE standards 62-2001 and 52.2-1999 (continued)
  • Lesson 5.4
    CSA standards Z-204-1999 and IICRC S-500-2003
  • Lesson 5.5
    CSA standards Z-204-1999 and IICRC S-500-2003 (continued)
  • Lesson 5.6
    Micro-organism in buildings—new assessment guidelines
  • Lesson 5.7
    Sampling strategy based on the microbial volatile organic compounds
  • Lesson 5.8
    Decontamination and control
  • Lesson 5.9
    Maintenance of HVAC systems
  • Lesson 5.10
    Course overview, exam preparation and final exam

• 6. Ontario building codes 0/4

  • Lesson 6.1
    Introduction to building code
  • Lesson 6.2
    Design requirements
  • Lesson 6.3
    Compliance
  • Lesson 6.4
    Course overview, exam preparation and final exam

• 7. Sustainable development 0/12

  • Lesson 7.1
    Renewable energy technology
  • Lesson 7.2
    Green buildings defined
  • Lesson 7.3
    Ecological design
  • Lesson 7.4
    Economic feasibility of green buildings
  • Lesson 7.5
    Sustainable sites and landscapes
  • Lesson 7.6
    The green building design process and construction
  • Lesson 7.7
    Building automation systems
  • Lesson 7.8
    Building commission
  • Lesson 7.9
    Developing a measurement and verification plan
  • Lesson 7.10
    Green building assessment
  • Lesson 7.11
    The future of green buildings
  • Lesson 7.12
    Course overview, exam preparation and final exam