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Integrating Ventilation, Heating, and Cooling Strategies in Building Envelope Design

This fourth course in the building envelope series marks a critical shift to the high-impact realm of integrative design. Here, the envelope actively...

Earn 1.25 LU in HSW

Design for Net-Zero Energy and Carbon, Part 6: Essential Tools for Net-Zero Carbon Design

This sixth course in the Design for Net-Zero Energy and Carbon series examines net-zero carbon tools. We will explore the strategies, technologies...

Earn 1.25 LU in HSW

Building Envelope Materials

This third course in the building envelope series shifts the focus from climate and typology to the tangible world of building envelope materials. We...

Earn 1.25 LU in HSW

Design for Net-Zero Energy and Carbon, Part 5: Essential Tools for Net-Zero Energy Design

This fifth course in the Design for Net-Zero Energy and Carbon series examines net-zero energy tools. We will explore the strategies, technologies...

Earn 1.25 LU in HSW

Weather, Climate, Environment, and Building Envelope Typologies

This second course in the building envelope series establishes the fundamentals of weather, climate, and environmental context as the essential...

Earn 1.50 LU in HSW

The History of the Building Envelope: An Archeology of Separation

The building envelope represents the most fundamental cultural act of humans: the separation of the interior from the external environment. We...

Earn 1.75 LU in HSW

Design for Net-Zero Energy and Carbon, Part 4: Elements of Net-Zero Carbon Buildings

Because the built environment is a major contributor to climate change—creating 40% of the world’s CO2 emissions—it is the responsibility of...

Earn 1.25 LU in HSW

Design for Net-Zero Energy and Carbon, Part 3: Elements of Net-Zero Energy Buildings

Because the built environment is a major contributor to climate change—creating 40% of the world’s CO2 emissions—it is the responsibility of...

Earn 1.25 LU in HSW

Design for Net-Zero Energy and Carbon, Part 2: What Does Net Zero Mean?

Because the built environment is a major contributor to climate change—creating 40% of the world’s CO2 emissions—it is the responsibility of...

Earn 1.25 LU in HSW

Predesign Planning Part 1

One of a series of ten courses about the reasons to conduct and methods to accomplish effective predesign planning in architecture, this course...

Earn 1.25 LU in HSW

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