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RBA
and GreenCE.com are proud members of USGBC and are
providers in the new USGBC Education Provider Program
(EPP), as such this enables us to easily transition
courses into meeting the new AIA CES Sustainable Design
(SD) requirements.
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The goal of Ron
Blank & Associates, who won the 2003
and 2008 Stakeholder CES Provider Award for Excellence,
is to educate the design community about innovative
product technologies. Our education team hosts educational
seminars to teach product manufacturers about design
professionals’needs and building AIA continuing
education courses. Read
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• During
the March 2008 AIA National
Board of Directors
meeting, it was approved that beginning January
1, 2009 the AIA would require all members to complete
four (4) hours of sustainable design. These 4 Sustainable
Design (SD) hours would be included as part of the
current 8 hour / HSW requirement. They are not additional
hours to the 18/8 LU hours that the AIA already requires.
This requirement would run until 2012, at which time
it will be evaluated.
The AIA is currently finalizing the rules of Sustainable
Design (SD) Learning Units. During
the course of this summer the AIA/CES will be establishing
the infrastructure for CES providers to determine, register, and
report their future continuing education courses to qualify for
Sustainable Design (SD) learning units. These rules will
be based upon the following definition.
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• Sustainable
Design (SD) Learning Units-
Sustainable design is achieved through an integrated design and
delivery process that enhances the natural and built environment
by using energy sensibly with a goal toward carbon neutrality,
improves air and water quality, protects and preserves water and
other resources, and creates environments, communities and buildings
that are livable, comfortable, productive, diverse, safe, and provide
enduring value to our community and society as a whole.
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• To
qualify as Sustainable Design learning units, the
content must meet 4 thresholds:
- It must address the AIA definition of sustainability.
- It must be a structured (third-party) program (i.e.
no self-study).
- At least 75% of program content must qualify as
HSW.
- Its
primary purpose must address at least one of the
AIA Committee on the Environment (COTE) Top Measures
of Sustainable Design and Performance Metrics
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• Examples:
Design & Innovation; Regional/Community Design;
Land Use & Site Ecology; Bioclimatic Design; Light & Air;
Water Cycle; Energy Flows & Energy Future; and
Materials & Construction to reduce product-cycle
environmental impacts and optimize occupant health
and comfort.
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