Green Building: Orientation (Preview Only)

Over the next 20 years, approximately 1.2 to 1.5 million new homes will be built each year in the United States alone. Every one of those homes represents tremendous consumption; each one requires an ongoing use of resources. More than ever, we need to find ways to mitigate that consumption by making our products - homes - perform better.

Success as a Green Builder ultimately depends on understanding the balance that we need between the natural environment and the built environment. That will require, each day in our jobs as builders, balancing a range of factors - including energy, durability, indoor air quality, and the sustainability of resources - that determine the quality of a new home. In this introductory course, Green Builder founder, Ron Jones, lays the groundwork for understanding the range of factors involved, and orients us to how to begin thinking about our new tasks.

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