Online Green Courses and Modules

High Performance Building Online Courses

Learn how to implement cost-effective green building techniques and boost your production efficiency by taking the online courses, Basics of High Performance Building and Advanced High Performance Building: Project Management.

Both courses reference the newly revised ICC/ASHRAE 700-2020 National Green Building Standard® (NGBS). Earn continuing education credit towards a NAHB designation or get AIA continuing education credit.

To learn more about NAHB Continuing Education Credit and AIA credit, please click on each individual course link below for more details.

Modules:

• Incorporating Green and High Performance Program Criteria – In this 1.25-hour module, understand the importance of including effective planning and coordination throughout the life-cycle of a green building project.
• Project Management Processes and Tools – This 1.5-hour module explores the tenants of a project management system such as defining goals, creating processes to meet the goals, creating benchmarks, maintaining a schedule, containing costs and measuring outcomes. Understanding such attributes are especially critical to a project that is seeking certification to a green building program.
• Incorporating High Performance Practices into Project Management – Parts A and B – This 2.5-hour module reviews how to use green building certification tools and processes, such as the NGBS, as planning tools and checklists throughout the project to meet the client’s goals and attain certification.
• Decreasing the Potential for Liabilities Associated with Green and High Performance Building – This 1.5-hour module will help green builders, remodelers and other building industry professionals learn how to decrease their risk through proper messaging, effective documentation and detailed planning.