The Hidden Dimension: Leveraging LEED Psychoacoustics
GreenCE’s mission is to support the necessary transition to a sustainable built environment by empowering design professionals to address the environmental, economic, and social impacts of buildings. GreenCE’s course catalog includes LEED exam preparation, continuing education to maintain your AIA or LEED credential, as well as specialty education focused on topics such as ADA/Barrier-Free requirements. We are committed to designing the highest quality continuing education programs in the construction industry.
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. Learn effective psychoacoustic strategies for LEED v4.1 BD+C and ID+C projects. The buildings that feel right sound right first. Are you ready to design spaces people love without knowing why?
- Explore the neuroscience of sound perception—precedence effect, masking, and binaural hearing that explain how LEED v4.1 BD+C and ID+C acoustic strategies impact the human brain and affect occupant well-being
- Integrate acoustic LEED v4.1 BD+C and ID+C strategies for stress reduction, cognitive performance, and measurable occupant wellbeing
- Design beyond compliance—integrate psychoacoustic principles with LEED v4.1 BD+C and ID+C strategies to create spaces that exceed requirements intelligently, not accidentally
- Understand why psychoacoustics matters—trace how decades of auditory research evolved into today's design standards and why ignoring the brain's interpretation of sound costs occupants’ productivity, health, and comfort
