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:
- Greening Your Process, Greening Your Practice: Integrated Project Delivery Boot Camp
- Negotiating a Green Mindset
- Executive Workshop: Boot Camp for Design Firms
- Managing the Integrated Design Process
Greening Your Process, Greening Your Practice: Integrated Project Delivery Boot Camp
Who Should Come: Design professionals, building professionals and government officials aiming to build capacity to green their organizations internal operations and external project management.
Description: To be competitive in today’s green building market, professionals need to address both project and company management differently so that integrated design and green skills are incorporated seamlessly into mainstream practice. To manage a cost-effective LEED project, a team must truly follow the framework and structure of Integrative Design. However, individual project success is not enough architecture, engineering and construction firms also need to have their own house in order and address internal management and resource issues. This workshop, Green Your Process, Green Your Practice: Integrated Project Delivery Boot Camp, provides frameworks and strategies for both external project management and internal company management so that attendees can optimize their time investment and be effective and successful.
Highlights:
- Build capacity in greening your internal operations and external project management from a nationally recognized green building consultant and trainer
- Learn how the Integrative Design Process can help you optimize the structure and flow of the design and construction process and what critical personal and group skill are necessary to building effective teams
- Explore how to participate in a new industry certification for design and construction firms
- Earn continuing education units to achieve the LEED Green Associate credential
- Designed for today’s economy more than 20% off registration until November 16
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Negotiating a Green Mindset
Description: This is a two-part workshop that 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.
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Executive Workshop: Boot Camp for Design Firms
Who Should Come: Executives and decision-making level staff
Description: Being a truly green firm is more than just being able to deliver LEED projects, but aligning overall company management and operations with the demands of integrated design and collaborative relationships with consultants. This workshop helps participants align business goals of profitability, quality control, transfer of knowledge and other elements with green project delivery. This half day workshop encapsulates the key aspects of company transformation, provides attendees with the framework and foundation necessary for them to move a green initiative ahead in their company.
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Managing the Integrated Design Process
Description: 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.
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