This micro-certificate is a flexible eight-week online program that provides professionals in architecture, engineering and construction industries a thorough understanding of zero-carbon buildings. It will outline how to achieve zero carbon throughout building life cycle including embodied and operational carbon reductions and carbon offsets.
What will you learn?
This flexible, eight-week online program is based on real-world case studies to examine and propose potential solutions from different perspectives to achieve zero-carbon building. The Zero Carbon Building Solutions program provides participants with the opportunity to understand:
- The embodied carbon emissions from the manufacturing, transport, installation, use and end-of-life of building materials.
- The contribution of carbon emissions during building operations and how to reduce emissions through energy use and the release of refrigerants during regular building operations.
- The negative carbon emission strategies that could be used to further offset building carbon emissions outside of the value chain or life cycle of a building.
- The most appropriate solutions to achieve zero/low carbon building designs from their professional background based on the knowledge learned.