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Off-Grid Primer:  Sustainable Design & Construction

Meeting the needs of today without compromising the needs of tomorrow.

As we peer into society’s future, we – you and I, and our government—must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering, for our own ease and convenience, the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage.

President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Farewell Address, 1961

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Course Content

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
14 Patterns of Biophilic Design
Functional / Operational
Historic Preservation
Productive
Secure / Safe
Sustainable
Four Construction Trends to be Aware of
Off-Grid Primer Final