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Sustainable Practice

Welcome to the Sustainable Practice Trainings Catalog. Brown the trainings below for opportunities to gain skills in greening your business, learn how the SPI Certification program can optimize your company's opportunities, and network with leaders in the building and business community.

Sustainable Practice Trainings:

  1. Case Study Roundtables
  2. LEED & Green Project Management Training
  3. Principles/Practices Lectures

Case Study Roundtables

The monthly case study roundtables highlight sustainable projects from leading A/E firms. We will really dig into to the nitty gritty -- from performance measurement to construction challenges, emerging products to the integrated design process, and more. Attendees have the opportunity to network and tour NEXUS Green Building Resource Center following the event.

Register for the next session on September 15. See the 2010 roundtable calendar.

LEED & Green Project Management

This full-day course is designed for individuals who want to become experts in LEED© and green building implementation and understand how their expertise best integrates into the process to achieve real value for their projects. At the end of this course, participants will be able to identify and approach their role on LEED© projects in a clear and strategic manner, credit-by-credit and phase-to phase.  

Specifically, participants will be able to:

  • Set goals for, manage, and implement your LEED© and green building projects from start to finish.
  • Integrate the planning, design, construction, and operations phases in order to achieve a comprehension of the green building process.
  • Prioritize and achieve your sustainability goals using readily available tools and resources.
  • Understand the overarching sustainability principles related to sites, energy, water, products, indoor environmental quality, construction practices, and operations and maintenance.

Project Management tools and exercise will help participants understand and implement the course material. Provides 8 AIA and GBCI LEED-Specific CE for BD+C, ID+C and O+M.

This course has been approved for the Express program of the Massachusetts Workforce Training Fund. This means that firms and individuals who meet the criteria are eligible for a 50% discount on the course fee:

  • Training grants are awarded to businesses with 50 or fewer employees and labor organizations.
  • Grant decisions are made within 21 days from filing the application.
  • Training may begin 6 weeks from the date of application.
  • The business or labor organization must pay at least 50 percent of the training costs. It will be reimbursed 50 percent of the total cost of training after the training is completed.
  • The MA Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development is expecting funding for 2010 to be made available in July 2010. NEXUS cannot guarantee funding for the course. See all courses approved for MA Workforce Training Fund subsidies.

Register for the next session beginning October 21.

This course is also being delivered in-house for firms. Contact Aaron Desatnik at aaron@greenroundtable.org or (617) 374-3740 x127.

Principles / Practice Lectures

Who Should Come: Varies based on topic. Typically commercial and residential design and construction professionals, policymakers, and business professionals.
Description: These 2-hour events provide groundwork on the core issues in green design, construction, operations, maintenance, and LEED Certification – both to build your capacity to implement green building practices and to increase your professional network. This event is typically offered 1-2 times monthly. Previous topics include:

Find out when this event is offered next.

 

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