* This course occurs every Wednesday evening from June 10, 2009 - July 8, 2009 * 

Location:  Grand Rapids Community College, West Campus/MTEC, 5708 Cornerstone Drive, Lansing, MI 48917

Time: 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm every Wednesday from June 10, 2009 - July 8, 2009

Topic: This course focuses on how human activities affect the green environment. It shows the ways you can affect the environment in both your personal and work life. It provides an overview of best practices for greening the built environment. It also helps you understand how to make smart choices based on pros, cons, and difficulty of each practice. Finally, it gives you an introduction to the LEED Green Building Rating System for construction workers.

Course Objectives:

• Understand the major challenges to the green environment that are caused directly or indirectly by the built environment
• Identify decisions and actions in your personal and work life that impact the green environment
• Prioritize your actions in terms of which ones matter most
• Describe the lifecycle of a building and its impact on the green environment over its lifecycle
• Identify green alternatives to conventional practice for major aspects of built facilities
• Describe the cost and benefits/pros and cons of those alternatives
• Identify specific practices you can implement at work to improve your impact on the green environment
• Describe what a green building rating system is and what it's used for
• Describe the LEED rating process and outcomes
• Identify construction activities you do that contribute to a project's LEED rating
• Identify common construction pitfalls to avoid in a LEED project

After the course upon successful completion of the Certification Exam, students will be issued a Green Advantage® certificate.

Registration: click here.