Sustainability through Landscape Design
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This course is approved for 0.5 GBCI Continuation Education (CE) credits. After completing the course you can report your credit towards LEED credential maintenance.Often landscape design is correlated with sustainability. Landscapes connect humans directly to natural systems, while providing a setting for different kinds of uses. At the same time, it’s important to ensure that the landscape itself preserve the local ecology, hydrology and biodiversity. For that, landscapes must be viewed as more than just an aesthetic add-on.This course will introduce you to sustainable landscape design and prepare you to distinguish between favourable and unfavourable landscape practices. Further, you’ll learn how these strategies can be leveraged to optimize green building performance. If you want to explore landscape strategies that can complement green building design, this course is right for you! At the end of the course, you’ll be able to chalk out a sustainability plan for landscape design in your LEED project.
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What you'll learn
- Identify key principles of sustainable landscape design
- Assess the ecological and hydrological implications of landscape decisions
- Differentiate between favorable and unfavorable landscape practices
- Integrate landscape strategies to enhance LEED project performance
- Create a comprehensive sustainability plan for a landscape design
Course objectives
- Introduce concepts linking landscape design to sustainability goals
- Provide criteria for evaluating landscape practices against LEED standards
- Guide the development of actionable sustainability plans for real projects
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