Sustainable Building Construction

The Sustainable Building Construction program equips students with essential skills for pursuing a career in the fields of green building design, planning, construction and maintenance. Program curriculum will cover a contemporary range of building design strategies, sustainable development, and technologies, with an emphasis on those that reduce environmental impacts and make our buildings and communities healthier, equitable, and more livable.

Upon successful completion of the Sustainable Building Construction Certificate of Achievement, completers will be prepared for the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Associates exam, the first step towards becoming LEED Certified.

A Certificate of Achievement is awarded upon completion of all required courses with a grade of C or better.

Effective: Academic Year 2021-2022

Our current certificates completions are between 9-16 per year. However, with the addition of this new certificate we expect that number to go up.

Student Learning Outcomes:

1.    Describe contemporary and emerging high-performance building codes and standards.

2.    Define and describe the technical and economic principles behind Passive Houses.

3.    Recall common terminology used in energy efficiency, energy production, and renewable energy systems.

4.    Analyze and select sustainable materials appropriate for a specific project.

5.    Identify appropriate and efficient heating, cooling, and air quality control systems for a building, including heat recovery ventilation, passive, and insulation systems.

6.    Apply the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design® (LEED) rating system to a building project to assess sustainability, and properly document the assessment.

7.    Prepare for the LEED Green Associate Examination.

The attached documents have labor market data for jobs/careers in Construction Inspection with the focus on sustainability. The data shows that jobs in the field are growing and the median compensation is higher than the entry level national average. Students will, upon successful completion of the Sustainable Building Construction Certificate of Achievement, will be prepared for the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Associates exam, the first step towards becoming LEED Certified. This is also the starting point for anyone generally interested in entry level career paths in an emerging new field within the construction industry.

Course	Title	Units	Year/Semester (Y1 or S1)
BLDG 212	Print Reading for Construction	3.0	S1
BLDG 213	Building Construction Codes and Standards	3.0	S1
BLDG 214	Materials and Processes of Construction: Sub-grade to Roof	3.0	S1
BLDG 222	Sustainable Planning and Zoning Principles	3.0	S2
BLDG 225	Green Building and Energy Efficiencies	3.0	S2
DT 110	Sustainable Technologies	3.0	S2

We are seeking to expand on the Building Construction Inspection program and create additional certificates to allow for multiple pathways within the construction industry, including project management, sustainability, and site supervision. The knowledge gained by our students in our current Building Construction Inspection program is extensive and should not be limited to simply a career as a Building Inspector/Code Enforcement. We are aiming to develop a construction project management certificate of achievement as one of the paths students can choose. In order to achieve all of this, we will be reviving and adding multiple new classes, hiring new adjuncts to instruct, and developing brand new curriculum for the new expansion certificates. In reviewing our current program setup, we noted inefficiencies that we aim to address. Primarily, we would like to decrease the amount of time it takes the average student to complete the certificate program. Currently, it takes a student enrolling in a minimum of 3 co

This program is the first of it's kind and no other college offers a program with an emphasis on sustainability in building construction

2017-2018 2018-2019 CB01: Course Department Number CB02: Course Title Annual # Sections Annual Enrollment Total Annual # Sections Annual Enrollment Total BLDG 212 Print Reading for Construction 1 35 0 N/A Not Offered BLDG 213 Building Codes and Standards 1 49 1 44 BLDG 214 Materials & Methods of Construction: Sub-Grade to Roof 1 34 0 N/A Not Offered BLDG 222 Sustainable Planning and Zoning Principles 0 N/A Not Offered 0 N/A Not Offered BLDG 224 Principles of Heating and Refrigeration Inspections 0 N/A Not Offered 0 N/A Not Offered DT 110. Sustainable Technologies