Sustainability and the Building Environment — an ASHRAE Satellite Broadcast DVD

Description

Earn Two PDHs

Sustainability in the building environment has become a global issue for facility managers, building owners/operators, designers, contractors and building occupants. This DVD, recorded from the April 2006 Satellite Broadcast/Webcast, provides information regarding building sustainability principles, practices, and emerging concepts.

It addresses 4 major issues on how to practice sustainable building design:

• “Toward Sustainable Buildings: Target-Based Building Design and Evaluation”
• “Energy's Role in Green Buildings: If it is Not Efficient, it is Not on a Sustainable Path”
• “Integrated Design: A Key to Sustainability”
• “Natural Ventilation”

Sponsored by ASHRAE's Chapter Technology Transfer Committee (CTTC), this broadcast/webscast includes a roster of 4 speakers:

Hal Levin, Fellow ASHRAE, Research Architect, Building Ecology Research Group, Santa Cruz, California.

Jean Lupinacci, Director, ENERGY STAR commercial and industrial branch, Climate Protection Partnerships Division, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Kevin Hydes, P.E., P.Eng, Vice President, Sustainable Practice, Stantec, Montreal, Canada.

Malcolm Lewis, Ph.D., P.E., President, CTG Energetics, Irvine, CA.

Note to purchasers: Depending on your license, you may be able to earn two (2) professional Development Hours (PDHs) by completing the Participant Reaction Form on the DVD. The State of New York/Practicing Institute of Engineers, Inc. (PIE) and the American Institute of Architects (AIA) will not accept viewing this DVD as continuing education for PDH/LU purposes.