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Course Lessons
Sustainable Building Design
Optimize Site Potential
Optimize Energy Use
Protect and Conserve Water
Embodied Energy
Optimize Building Space and Material Use
Enhance Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ)
Optimize Operational and Maintenance Practices
Design Objectives
Guided by Design: Reuse, Recycle, Reduce, and Regenerate
Accessible
Aesthetics
Cost-Effective
Functional / Operational
Historic Preservation
Productive
Secure / Safe
Sustainable
Four Construction Trends to be Aware of
4 Construction Trends to be Aware of
14 Patterns of Biophilic Design
The Building Site
Permission to Build
The Construction Site
Example Permit Application
Building Layout
Tire Work
Can and Bottle Work
Buttresses
Footings
Door and Window Boxes
Concrete Bond Beam
Vaulted Arched Roof
Vapor Barriers
History of Green Buildings
Passive Solar
Climate and Culture: Physics and Humanity
Insulation
How to Install Insulation
Thermal Mass
Heating & Cooling the Building
Cooling
The Perfect Wall
How to Install Thermal Mass
Thermal Envelope
Energy Efficient Windows
What is a Passive Building?
Energy Use
Solar Power
Wiring Solar Panels in a Series Circuit
Wiring Solar Panels in a Parallel Circuit
Direct Current vs. Alternating Current
The Basic Components of a Home Solar Power System
Grid-Tie / Off-Grid / Grid-Tie with Batteries
How to Setup, Design, Size and Install an Off-grid Power System
Wiring Sizes
Fire, Personal Injury, and Electric Shock Hazard Fundamentals
Human and Workmanship Remedies
Keep Your PV System Well-Grounded
How to Properly Fuse a Solar PV System
Circuit Breaker
Installing Electrical Receptacles and Switches
Circuit Breaker Box Diagram
Electrical Terms, Tools, and Materials
Wiring Solar Panels in Parallel and Series
Steps to Reduce Water Use
Fixing Leaks
Fresh, Potable, Drinking Water Usage
Catching the Water
Roof, Slope, and Gutters
Cisterns
WOM: Water Organizing Module
Plumbing for Potable Drinking Water
Heating Water
Water System Maintenance
Indoor Tips
Outdoor Tips
Interior Botanical Treatment Cell
Exterior Botanical Treatment Cell
Plumbing for Waste Water
Building and Plumbing the Botanical Treatment Cell
gWOM and tWOM
Waste Water Botanical Treatment System Maintenance
Plants for the Botanical Cells
Solar Toilet Construction Drawings
The Path of Waste Water
Overview: Containment and Treatment Botanical Cell
Overview: Water
