Sustainability

Water Desalination Using Renewable Energy Global demand for water continues to increase while freshwater sources are becoming more scarce due to increasing... Read More

Photovoltaic System Operation and Maintenance The photovoltaics (PV) industry has experienced significant growth in the past five years, and, consequently, must focus... Read More

Energy Code Primer: Lighting Control and Plug Loads This course provides an overview of the lighting requirements and provisions of the ASHRAE... Read More

Stone Coated Steel Roofs This course provides an overview of stone coated steel roofing systems. It includes a discussion of the installation... Read More

Introduction to Hybrid Heat Pumps Hybrid heat pump systems combine two traditional commercial HVAC building technologies – conventional water-cooled air conditioning and... Read More

Paint and LEED V4 Paints and coatings, which impact a building’s overall sustainability, represent two LEED credits in LEED 2009: Low Emitting... Read More

Energy Efficiency Improvement – Petrochemical Industry Energy is the most important cost factor in the U.S petrochemical industry, defined in this course... Read More

Introduction to Offshore Wind Energy Offshore wind turbines harness the energy of ocean winds and turn it into electricity. Although land-based wind... Read More

Overview of Solar Energy Solar energy is abundant and offers significant potential for near-term (2020) and long-term (2050) climate change mitigation. Solar... Read More

Sustainable Buildings This course presents the sustainable buildings checklist with an emphasis on the major benefits and approaches to green and sustainable... Read More

Small Urban Watershed Restoration Urban watershed restoration has recently evolved into a growing and sophisticated practice. This course introduces the basic concepts... Read More

Enhanced Geothermal Systems Creation and Production An Enhanced Geothermal System (EGS) is a man-made reservoir, created where there is hot rock but... Read More

Enhanced Geothermal Systems – Imaging and Characterization Conventional geothermal extraction depends on naturally occurring waters bringing heat from Earth’s interior to the... Read More

An Introduction to Conservation Design Conservation design is a density neutral design system that takes into account the natural landscape and ecology... Read More

Building Energy Codes The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) supports and participates in the model building energy code development processes administered by... Read More