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Integrating High Performance:

Improving the way buildings are designed, built and used

High performance, LEED™, green, sustainable, ENERGY STAR®, energy efficient. What does this universe of terms mean for your projects? How do these concepts fit together? How can you and your clients profit from these approaches? How can you incorporate these approaches into your projects?

This one-day training will give you a practical, cost-effective approach to achieving performance goals on your next project—whether they are your goals, your client’s goals, LEED, or ENERGY STAR. Don’t miss this opportunity to receive the tools and skills you need to design buildings that perform for you, your clients and the environment.

How to sell high performance

This training will also improve your ability to sell high performance to clients. You will receive tools to demonstrate the features, benefits and costs of high performance to your clients and make a compelling business case for energy efficient, sustainable design.

The training will draw from the Advanced Buildings™ suite of resources, many available at no cost or reduced cost to designers through the generous support of our sponsors.

As a result of this training, you will be able to:

Understand the concept of high performance buildings—what they are and what they are not—so that you can sort through the universe of options for your projects
Set performance goals for future projects so that your buildings perform as you intend
Create the process necessary to achieve a high performance design and improve client satisfaction
Calculate economic and environmental benefits of high performance to make a business case for clients
Communicate how design decisions impact building performance so that clients understand how they benefit from your design approach
Apply the science of how buildings use energy to improve your design approaches
Optimize your use of existing tools—including Advanced Buildings Benchmark, ENERGY STAR Target Finder, LEED, and others—to help you design better buildings

You will receive these value-added resources:

Advanced Buildings Benchmark™ ($52 value)
Advanced Buildings Benefits Guide™ ($44 value)
Course materials binder
Checklist and forms to help document performance and process goals for all phases of the design process
Access to web-based tools, resources and materials available only to training participants

Credit information

Members of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) will earn 6.5 Learning Units (HSW) for attending this training. All attendees will earn 0.65 Continuing Education Units for attending this training.