LEED General Courses By Sponsor

The land beneath our buildings tells a story of disrupted ecosystems, rising temperatures, and communities bearing the weight of inequitable development. LEED v5 Sustainable Sites gives design professionals the framework to write a different one, where buildings restore habitat, manage water responsibly, cool overheated neighborhoods, and create spaces where people and wildlife thrive.

In this course, we explore strategies to improve indoor air quality and how to achieve the LEED v4.1 BD+C and ID+C EQ Low-Emitting Materials credit. In addition, we review the applicable requirements such as (CDPH) Standard Method v1.2–2017. Finally, we discuss how buildings with excellent indoor environmental quality protect the health of building occupants.

Welcome to this comprehensive exploration of Stockholm Wood City, one of the world's most ambitious mass timber developments. This course examines how this groundbreaking project is reshaping urban construction through innovative use of Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT) and other engineered wood products. We'll dive deep into the project's environmental philosophy, technical specifications, and construction methodologies while exploring how mass timber construction aligns with LEED v4.1 BD+C and ID+C rating systems.

Mass timber is revolutionizing modern architecture, offering design professionals an unprecedented opportunity to create buildings that actively fight climate change while delivering superior occupant experiences. This cutting-edge construction method is transforming skylines from Portland to Stockholm, enabling architects to build taller, faster, and more sustainably than ever before.

In this presentation, we explore how deadly diseases have impacted cities and affected urban planning. We discuss how urbanization contributes to pandemics and how diseases like the bubonic plague, Spanish influenza, and SARS changed how cities operate. Our team will review how hospitals, clinics, and other healthcare projects can decrease risks to patients and healthcare workers. Finally, we will examine how sustainable development may help decrease pandemic risks for future global catastrophes.

Welcome to Earth's most terrifying reality show - and you're already starring in it. Right now, as you read this, ancient permafrost is melting and releasing methane bombs that have been sleeping for millennia. Ice sheets the size of countries are collapsing into the ocean. Entire species are vanishing before we even discover them. We've pushed the planet past multiple tipping points, and the Earth system is now hunting us back with unprecedented heat waves, super storms, and ecological collapse. This isn't science fiction - this is your life.

In this course, we describe how design professionals can achieve the LEED v4.1 BD+C and O+M Rainwater Management Credit. In addition, we discuss green infrastructure and low-impact development strategies and how they can help for project sites.

The impending climate crisis casts a looming shadow over our planet, and the responsibility to avert catastrophe falls upon us all. Design professionals can wield their creative powers to conceive sustainable, resilient, and regenerative solutions before it's too late. Diverting construction waste from landfills and promoting recycling, reuse, and responsible disposal practices can significantly contribute to reducing carbon emissions.

In a world where climate change rages unchecked, the skies weep acid rain, monstrous storms destroy coastal cities, vibrant communities turn into desert wastelands, millions flee their homes, entire species go extinct, and ecosystems collapse. Renewable energy can play a vital role in addressing these challenges and mitigating the worst effects of climate change. In this course, we explore how renewable energy can help reduce carbon emissions for LEED v4.1 BD+C and ID+C projects and reduce environmental impacts.

In this course, we describe how design professionals can achieve the LEED v4.1 BD+C Sensitive Land Protection credit and reduce environmental impacts for building sites. We review sensitive land areas including wildlife habitat, wetlands, prime farmland, floodplains, and water bodies.

In this course, we explain how to achieve the LEED v4.1 BD+C and ID+C MR: Sourcing of Raw Materials credit and how to specify environmentally friendly building materials. We review FSC certification, recycled content, and how bio-based materials could change the future of construction.

Ever wonder why that fluorescent-lit hallway gives you the creeps? Turns out, millions of people on the internet figured it out. When an anonymous internet post about endless yellow office spaces went viral, it accidentally created one of the largest public engagements with architectural psychology. This course explores how The Backrooms phenomenon introduced liminal space theory to the masses and what it means for creating better buildings.

What do a 2,400-year-old philosopher and today’s toughest client meetings have in common? More than you think. In this course, you’ll discover how ancient Greek Cynic philosophy can help you defuse conflict, win over clients, and keep your sustainable design goals on track. Packed with real-world case studies and practical tools, this course shows architects, engineers, and contractors how to navigate high-stakes conversations about eco-friendly materials, resolve team tensions when budgets clash with sustainability, and build long-term client trust through radical honesty and clarity.

Discover a radical new lens on design in this course on material vitalism—an approach that redefines materials not as passive stuff, but as active participants in shaping architecture. We'll explore how matter itself can tell stories, shape experiences, and even guide design choices, from the weathered warmth of timber to the self-organizing intelligence of natural systems. Blending philosophy, material science, and real-world examples, this course offers not just theory, but a practical, sustainable framework for thinking with materials.

We're facing an unprecedented crisis of connection in our communities. While we've become more digitally linked than ever before, genuine human connection is becoming increasingly rare. As a design professional, you hold extraordinary power to address this crisis through the spaces you create. Your buildings don't just house activities; they shape the social patterns that determine whether communities thrive or struggle.

Your brain is lying to you about sound. What you hear isn't what's actually there—it's a carefully constructed illusion your neural circuitry builds in milliseconds. Welcome to the hidden dimension of architecture. This course cracks open the secret world where neuroscience collides with building design. You'll discover why certain rooms make people anxious without knowing why. How a hospital corridor can accelerate healing—or slow it down. Why your open office design might be sabotaging productivity at the cellular level.

There's a phantom haunting your LEED buildings. It sabotages productivity. Triggers stress. Tanks satisfaction scores. Yet it appears on no energy model, no daylighting analysis, no material specification. Sound—the forgotten dimension—is writing the soundtrack of failure in even your best projects. Discover how composer R. Murray Schafer unlocked the hidden science of acoustic ecology in the 1960s, and why his innovative framework is the missing key for many sustainable design projects.

This podcast course provides a comprehensive exploration of sustainable design and carbon management in the built environment. Participants will learn to differentiate between operational and embodied carbon, utilizing various tools and metrics for carbon design measures. A key focus will be discussing how Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) aid design professionals and building product manufacturers in achieving their sustainability goals.