LEED + Wild: Certifying the Impossible
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.
Welcome to a journey that will fundamentally challenge how you think about sustainable design. This course pushes far beyond the conventional net-zero checklists that have dominated green building practice for the past two decades. Instead, we're going to explore what happens when buildings become living entities, when cities give back more than they take, and when the boundary between natural and artificial dissolves entirely. We'll dive deep into emerging technologies and philosophies that sound like science fiction but are rapidly becoming reality. We'll examine flora robotica systems where plants and robots collaborate to grow buildings, bionic architecture that breathes and heals like living organisms, and cities designed around principles of reciprocity rather than extraction. Along the way, we'll discover how these revolutionary concepts can work within and expand the framework of LEED v4.1, preparing you to lead the next generation of truly regenerative built environments.
- Apply LEED v4.1 BD+C and ID+C credit strategies to support innovative sustainable design approaches including flora robotica, bionic architecture, and bioluminescent systems.
- Evaluate LEED v4.1 BD+C and ID+C Innovation strategies with emerging bio-integrated technologies to demonstrate quantifiable performance benefits that exceed conventional green building practice.
- Synthesize LEED v4.1 BD+C and ID+C requirements with reciprocal city planning design principles to create holistic strategies for regenerative built environments.
- Analyze the limitations and future evolution of current sustainability rating systems when applied to speculative design concepts that challenge conventional building performance assumptions.
