Built Environment Courses and Certifications

Built environment sustainability assessment

15 ratings

The course introduces the basic elements and trends for performing a through built environment assessment and develops the tools for urban sustainability policy impact analysis.

• edX
• 5 weeks, 3-4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Theory of City Form

3 ratings

This course covers theories about the form that settlements should take and attempts a distinction between descriptive and normative theory by examining examples of various theories of city form over time.

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• 35 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Built Environment Sustainability Assesment

Assess urban sustainability of the built environment using integrated design evaluation, BIM, life cycle analysis, green infrastructure and circular city models.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Aalto University

Wood Properties

Learn about properties of wood material with our self-paced online course. Get to know the basic anatomical features of wood, such as grain orientation and knots, to its properties relevant in the bui

• Aalto University Executive Education
• 27 hours
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Environmental Hazards and Global Public Health

109 ratings at Coursera

Examine how air and water pollution, noise, radon, and solid and hazardous waste harm human health, and how urbanization and the built environment shape global health.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Circular Economy for a Sustainable Built Environment

19 ratings at edX

Learn how the principles of the Circular Economy can be applied to the built environment ranging from products and buildings to metropolitan and regional development strategies.

• edX
• 6 weeks, 3-5 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

"Making" Progress Teach-Out

19 ratings at Coursera

Ask whether places progress: examine the forces reshaping cities, trace the history of public spaces and sites of memory in your own community, and discuss findings.

• Coursera
• 2 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Geodesign: Change Your World

64 ratings at Coursera

Learn the geodesign process through global case studies and interactive mapping, covering design, decision, and data, computation and collaboration, and cultural context, then outline your own challenge.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Eindhoven University of Technology

Lightcap 4: Light in indoor contexts Effects & implications

Design and evaluate indoor lighting: daylight and electric light sources, glare and luminance metrics, lighting standards, Grasshopper simulations with Ladybug and Honeybee, and light measurement procedures.

• Coursera
• 9 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Building expertise on developing sustainable and resilient infrastructure

This course provides knowledge, builds expertise and provides tools on the planning, financing, procurement and contracting of sustainable and resilient infrastructure projects.

• edX
• 9 weeks, 4-6 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

USENIX

How Our SREs Safeguard Nanosecond Performance - at Scale - in an Environment Built to Fail

Learn how Optiver applies SRE principles, automation, and risk controls to safeguard nanosecond performance in high-frequency trading.

• YouTube
• 15 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Career Certificate

Interdisciplinary Sustainable Architecture Assessment

The program sets the framework for the development of a city assessment model to evaluate the impact on sustainability of the built environment

• edX
• 9 weeks, 3-4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• $97.00
• 2 courses

Testing Technology for Building Environment

Learn to measure temperature, humidity, pressure, flow, and heat transfer to evaluate building environments and support comfortable, energy-efficient spaces.

• XuetangX
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

NPTEL;  IIT Roorkee

Disaster Recovery and Build Back Better

You will learn topics like Understanding Risk and Vulnerability; The road map of BBB. The Role of Built Environment professions in Disaster Risk Reduction. The Pedagogic dimension for Build Back better, etc.

• YouTube
• 22 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

NPTEL-NOC IITM

Gender Inclusive Urban Spaces: Issues and Questions

Explore the key issues and questions surrounding gender inclusivity in urban planning and design, examining how spaces can be made more equitable for all genders.

• YouTube
• 24 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video