Construction and demolition generate more waste by weight than every household and business in the country combined. LEED v5 responds with four requirements covering reuse, product selection, waste diversion, and recycling infrastructure—and carbon connects them all. This course explains how to satisfy each requirement, from zero-waste planning and material reuse to multi-attribute product...
Zero Net Carbon Design LEED v5 Bundle

Zero Net Carbon Design LEED v5 Bundle
The Zero Net Carbon Design LEED v5 Bundle is a five-course series that helps architects and design professionals reduce carbon across a building’s life cycle. This bundle meets the mandatory requirements for architects to satisfy California’s 5-hour Zero Net Carbon Design (ZNCD) continuing education requirement, and awards 5 LEED Specific Hours and 5 AIA HSW Hours.
LEED v5 Carbon Assessment
This course covers the Carbon Assessment prerequisite and the data that feeds it. It shows how to use the results in early design to cut operational, embodied, refrigerant and transportation carbon.
LEED v5 Operational Carbon
This course covers the Operational Carbon Projection and Decarbonization Plan prerequisite, from energy modeling and carbon forecasts to building performance standards and decarbonization strategies.
LEED v5 Reduce Embodied Carbon
This course covers the credit’s achievement options, thresholds and baseline rules. It also shows how to write specifications and manage procurement so that reductions survive into construction.
LEED v5 Carbon and Building Materials
This course covers the zero-waste prerequisite and the credits for material reuse, product selection and construction waste diversion. It shows how material choices affect both waste and embodied carbon.
LEED v5 Carbon: A California Case Study
This course uses California’s heat, water, air quality, wildfire and cost pressures to show how LEED v5 strategies improve resilience and affordability while lowering emissions.
FAQ Link: https://www.cab.ca.gov/lic/ce.shtml
$159.00
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![]() LEED v5 puts carbon at the front of the design process. Before a project can pursue a single credit, it must complete a Carbon Assessment—and that assessment can fundamentally change design decisions. This course breaks down the Carbon Assessment prerequisite, the requirements that feed it, and how to use the results to identify the biggest opportunities for carbon reduction. Learn where...
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![]() California is the fourth-largest economy in the world and is experiencing many of the impacts of climate change at the same time. Extreme heat events are occurring earlier in the year and lasting longer. Snowpack is declining, wildfire risk is increasing, and several of the nation’s most polluted metropolitan areas are here.
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![]() Every building on the drawing board will operate for decades under changing energy prices, grid conditions, and carbon-related policies. LEED v5 responds by requiring projects to forecast operational carbon while the design can still change. This course breaks down the Operational Carbon Projection and Decarbonization Plan prerequisite—from energy modeling and carbon forecasts to building...
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![]() Measuring embodied carbon is now mandatory for LEED v5 projects. Reducing it is not. That gap is where this course begins. Meaningful reductions are available today using materials and methods already on the market. The challenge is turning those possibilities into project decisions—and making sure those reductions survive procurement and construction. This course breaks down the LEED v5...
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