Comprehensive Overview of GBCI Green Business Certifications and Programs (Full Transcript)

Speaker 1: Hi everyone, welcome to GBCI PodCamp course overview of green business certifications and programs. In this course, we will investigate GBCI programs and certification programs that relates to green business and sustainability in the built environment. This workshop will provide lead practitioners, project teams, service providers and developers an overview of the expanding suite of tools offered by the Green Business Certification Incorporation. Learn about the tools for market transformation, LEED, ARC, Well-Reading Systems, Sustainable Sites Initiatives, PEER, ParkSmart, TRUE, GRESP, EDGE and LEED for Cities. Receive an overview on each of the green building offerings that builds upon your knowledge of LEED. Discover the tools and resources for advancing green buildings, communities and cities as part of your green business strategy. No matter the type, size, scope or life cycle phase of your project, GBCI has a system that can work for you. This course has been registered with GBCI for CE hours. Any individual who takes this course can report 1.5 CE hours toward their LEED continuing education hours. You can use this course for LEED-specific CE towards LEED Green Associate 2. Use the same information included here on this slide and you can get the GBCI course ID from the main course landing page. We will be investigating the following topics and we will give you a brief about each certification program in a short length video. We will start with a small introduction and overview, then we will discuss LEED Rating System, ARC, Beyond LEED, Well-Building Standard, Sites Version 2 Rating System, ParkSmart, True Zero Waste, PEER, Other Programs and Wrapping Up, Step-by-Step for Submitting CE Hours, and Bonus Lecture. Introduction and Overview, Chapter 1, Lecture 1. Learning Objectives, Review the Value of LEED, Identify Ways that GBCI Offerings Address the Components Necessary for Healthy Buildings, Cities, and Communities, Recognize the ARC Platform as a Value Added to LEED Version 4 Projects and Your Green Services of Validated Building Performance, Comparing LEED Version 4 Credits and Synergies with Other Green Building Systems, Target Audience, LEED and Green Building Professionals, Current LEED Users and Project Team Members, Other Green Building and Sustainability Professionals, and Anyone Interested in Green Building and Sustainability. The mission of USGBC is green building for everyone within this generation. Sustainability is not a one-time treatment or product. Instead, green building is a process that applies to buildings, their sites, their interiors, their operations, and the communities in which they are situated. The process of green building flows throughout the entire life cycle of the project, beginning at the inception of a project idea and continuing seamlessly until the project reaches the end of its life and its parts are recycled or reused. The US EPA says that green building refers to both the structure and the using of processes that are environmentally responsible and resource efficient throughout a building's life cycle, from sitting to design, construction, operations, maintenance, renovation, and demolition. Green building features and benefits. Energy and water efficient, generates less carbon emissions, generates less waste, uses environmental-friendly materials, and healthier to live and work. Here are some words that describe USGBC's vision for the world, touching every aspect of the built environment at all scales. It's safe, healthy, inclusive, smart, productive, efficient, equitable, sustainable, responsive, and resilient. We started with LEED, USGBC now is more than just LEED, shifting our focus to performance and building a robust platform that will measure performance across all key performance indicators for the built environment. Partnership is the new leadership. We will show you how this is happening at USGBC and GBCI. In the next video, we will talk about LEED rating system and we will give you a brief introduction to know more about it. Thank you for listening and see you in the next video.