Green Building Certification Programs » Green Infrastructure Courses

Introduction to High Performance Guidelines

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This program gives the student a complete overview of Green Infrastructure Guidelines

Best Practices for Construction

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This 1-hour online course gives you the information and action items to assess sites and identify opportunities to use Best Management Practices (BMPs) in “Green” planning, design and construction.

Topics Covered

Site Protection
Plan development
Protecting water sources and planted areas
Developing waste management and recycling plans
Minimizing construction and equipment impacts

Best Practices for Site Assessment

admin — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:32:36 +0000

This online course is the second in the series and gives you the information and action items for assessing sites and identifying opportunities to implement Best Management Practices (BMPs) in “Green” planning, design and construction.

Topics Covered

Soil testing
Hydrologic and hydraulic analysis
Vegetation assessment, preservation and transplantation
Invasive species evaluation

Best Practices for Utilities

admin — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:30:01 +0000

This online course gives you the information and action items for assessing sites and identifying opportunities to implement Best Management Practices (BMPs) in “Green” planning, design and construction.

Topics Covered

Mechanisms to affect right-of-way construction by private utilities.
Technology to minimize pavement damage and degradation
Upgrades to utility installation and maintenance

Best Practices for Streetscape

admin — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:10:38 +0000

Infrastructure is the complex, interdependent system that supports our way of life. You can take advantage of a wide range of opportunities to build and re-build a “Green” Infrastructure – if you have the right template. This course is one of an eight course series on Green Infrastructure that provides a template for design and implementation of Green Building concepts applicable to cities and municipalities.

Best Practices for Stormwater Management

admin — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:08:00 +0000

This 3-hour online course gives you the information and action items to assess sites and identify opportunities to use Best Management Practices (BMPs) in â€œGreenâ€ planning, design and construction.

Topic Covered

Integrated stormwater management planning
Water pollution prevention
Construction runoff prevention
Surface pretreatments for filtering runoff
Catch basin inserts and water quality inlets
Detention and Infiltration structures
Constructed wetlands

Best Practices for Landscape

admin — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:00:59 +0000

This 3-hour online course gives you the information and action items to assess sites and identify opportunities to use Best Management Practices (BMPs) in “Green” planning, design and construction.

Topics Covered

Citywide landscape planning
Maintaining and enhancing biodiversity and ecology
Landscapes capable of high rates of stormwater absorption, infiltration, and treatment
Tree planting for quantity, density and diversity
Turfgrass reduction
Plant selection
Designing water-efficient landscapes
Pest Management

Best Practices for Pavement

admin — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 23:43:59 +0000

This course is one of an eight course series on Green Infrastructure that provides a template for design and implementation of Green Building concepts as they apply to cities and municipalities.

This 3hr online course gives you the information and action items to assess sites and identify opportunities to use Best Management Practices (BMPs) in “Green” planning, design and construction.

Topics Covered

Pavement lifecycle
Pervious vs. impervious pavement
Albedo or Reflectivity of pavement
Pavement materials
A materials program
Material applications