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Sustainable Strategies for Existing Federal Facilities
Course ID: FEMP09
Credits
AIA LU/HSW:3.5, FEMP IACET CEU:0.4, USGBC GBCI:3.5
Description
In the course, Sustainable Strategies for Existing Federal Facilities, you will learn strategies for creating and maintaining high performance buildings by optimizing building technologies, avoiding the costs of waste and inefficiency; and creating productive, comfortable, and healthy work environments. This course focuses on the following fundamentals for improving sustainability in a Federal facility: optimizing energy performance, protecting and conserving water, using environmentally preferable products and materials, and enhancing indoor environmental quality.
Learning Objectives
By completing this course you will learn to:
- Apply tools such as the EnergyStar Portfolio Manager to baseline and benchmark facilities to conduct a sustainability audit and inspection programs;
- Apply tools to identify opportunities to establish implementation plans and metrics to comply with the Guiding Principles for High Performance Sustainable Existing Buildings;
- Recognize decision points and opportunities to implement sustainable strategies to achieve integrated, holistic and cost effective improvements; and
- Engage an organizational team in a sustainable operations plan to ensure continuous improvement to building performance and meet agency Strategic Sustainability Performance Plans.