Training Catalog

Welcome to your source for green building education and training. Browse the trainings below for opportunities to build your capacity in the LEED Rating System, green building and organizational sustainability. We are a provider of AIA, GBCI and IES continuing education credits to help you maintain your professional credentials.

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Request information by filling out this online form or contacting Aaron Desatnik at aaron@greenroundtable.org or 617-374-3740 x127.

Free Webinars

Become a LEED Green Associate

What is the LEED Green Associate credential? How will it help me professionally? Am I eligible to take the exam? How hard is it? What resources are there to help me pass the exam? How do I register for the exam? What are the requirements for maintaining the Green Associate credential?

This is a 1-hr presentation on the new LEED Green Associate credential and how to pass the exam. Get answers to the above questions and bring questions of your own.

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Become a LEED AP and Maintain Your Credential

What are the new LEED AP specialty designations? How will they differ from my current LEED AP status and what are the benefits? What resources are there to help me pass the exam? What are the requirements for maintaining the LEED AP Specialty credentials? If I'm a LEED Green Associate or LEED AP, what do I need to do to maintain my credential?

This is a 1-hr presentation on the new LEED AP specialty designations and maintaining your LEED Credential. The new specialty exams include: Building Design and Construction (the old NC), Interior Design and Construction (the old CI), Operations and Maintenance (the old EBOM), Homes, and Neighborhood Development. Get answers to the above questions and bring questions of your own.

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Sustainable Performance Webinar Series

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LEED & Green Building

LEED Green Associate Exam Prep

NEW! All participants get access to 700 LEED Green Associate practice questions, exam simulator, and a LEED Green Associate Study Guide. Register at the discounted rate of $295.

Taught by green building experts, this one-day LEED Green Associate Exam Prep prepares individuals to gain the confidence and knowledge needed to pass the LEED Green Associate exam.

Specifically, this course will:

  • Provide a core understanding about the LEED Rating Systems and the Certification process.
  • Increase your knowledge of LEED Rating Systems, Certification process, credit categories structure and specific credits.
  • Target the most valuable material to memorize for the LEED Green Associate exam through the lens of actual LEED Certified buildings.

Completion of this class meets the GBCI application requirements to take the LEED Green Associate exam. 8.0 AIA/CES Sustainable Design LU are offered for attending this training. All participants receive a certificate of completion that they can use to fulfill continuing education (CE) requirements of other professional certifications and to apply for the LEED Green Associate exam.

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Green Building Case Study

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.

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LEED & Green Project Management

NEW! Register at the discounted rate of $295.

Taught by green building experts, this one-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.

Participants will also receive 8 AIA and GBCI LEED-Specific CE for BD+C, ID+C and O+M. and get access to Project Management tools and exercises.

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Energy Modeling for LEED Using eQuest

This two-day hands-on training will develop your capacity in energy modeling using eQUEST to achieve LEED EAp2: Minimum Energy Performance and EAc1: Optimize Energy Performance. In day one you will learn how to use eQUEST’s wizards and graphics to construct a building energy model that incorporates weather data, building envelope construction specifications, HVAC systems, internal loads and service hot water systems. In day two you will learn how to make your building energy model comply with ASHRAE 90.1-2007 Appendix G to meet LEED 2009 requirements for EAp2 and EAc1. Through modeling exercises, you will develop both proposed and baseline building energy models and compare simulations and results. Lastly, you will learn how to complete the LEED submittal forms using eQUEST input and output.

Seating is limited and registration is first-come, first-serve. Registration fee includes both Day 1 and Day 2.

Provides 16 AIA SD HSW/LU and 16 GBCI LEED-Specific CE for BD+C for LEED Green Associates and LEED AP’s. ASHRAE and AEE Certified Professionals may submit for continuing education credit.

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Sustainable Practice

Greening Your Firm Boot Camp

* This workshop is offered in both half-day and full-day versions*

Being a truly sustainable design or construction company is about more than just being able to deliver LEED projects. It's about aligning overall company management and operations with the demands of integrated design and collaborative relationships and measuring company performance as a result. Whether your company delivers LEED projects or not, there are proven strategies that you can use to deliver higher-performance projects and more efficient and effective processes to be a truly sustainable company. This interactive workshop builds your capacity to implement these strategies in the most cost-effective way and provides tools to enable you to implement these strategies in your company. This course offers 8 AIA SD CEU and 8 GBCI CE.

Participants will being able to:

  • Define clear, measurable self-assessment of your company's capability.
  • List issues your company needs to address.
  • List systems, processes and resources that your company needs to address.
  • Draft a plan to address these issues, systems, processes and resources gaps.
  • Convey how to align profitability, quality control, knowledge transfer, and other elements with green project delivery to the leaders in your company.
  • Understand how the Certification process may apply to you company.

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Negotiating a Green Mindset

This workshop helps participants overcome the objections and resistance they often face when trying to incorporate sustainability into their design and construction work. This resistance can be from colleagues, consultants, owners, permitting authorities, or any number of parties. The workshop combines presentation, discussion, and exercises, and is informative, interactive, experiential, and fun. Participants leave with skills and techniques to negotiate more effectively, identify and overcome barriers and conflicts and champion sustainable design through an interest based approach. This course offers 8 AIA SD CEU.

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Managing the Integrated Design Process

Delivering green design and LEED projects presents a series of challenges to design professionals and owners. Underlying technical and cost challenges is the issue of collaborative decision-making and project management. Often, professionals focus on the techniques, technologies and “credits” without addressing the fundamental aspect of practice and management. LEED and other rating systems exist to answer the question “How green is my building?”, but until recently, no framework has existed to measure, “How green is my process?”. This workshop address integrative design and collaborative decision-making, project management and introduces participants to the new ANSI standard created to provide a concrete framework to practitioners to lay out a process for green design that supports green project strategies and aspirations. This course offers 8 AIA SD CEU.

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