Sustainable Building Design Courses and Certifications

L&T EduTech Career Certificate

Sustainable Design Practices in Building Design

99 ratings at Coursera

Design sustainable buildings for Indian climates: shading and heat transfer, renewable energy, water and waste management systems, green materials, and GRIHA and IGBC rating systems.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 3 courses

Parsons

Sustainable Building: Design and Specification

23 ratings at Coursera

Specify healthier building materials: review product disclosures, weigh performance, quality and affordability, engage manufacturers, and compare alternatives for healthier design projects.

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

Sustainable Building Design

Explore scientific principles and technologies for comfortable indoor environments that reduce building energy use and climate impacts.

• MITx Online
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Zero-Energy Design: an approach to make your building sustainable

13 ratings at edX

Learn how to get to a net zero energy use of an existing building.

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

Sustainable building design for tropical climates: principles and guidelines for EAC

1 rating

Design climate responsive buildings for tropical and East African climates: apply building physics principles and integrated design to cut energy demand and achieve thermal and visual comfort.

• Polimi OPEN KNOWLEDGE
• 4 weeks, 2-3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Sustainable building design for tropical climates series

Explore climate-responsive building design principles for sustainable architecture in tropical African countries.

• Polimi OPEN KNOWLEDGE
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Sustainable building design in Africa

Design climate responsive buildings for African contexts, applying an integrated design approach, building physics principles, and technological systems for technical plants.

• Polimi OPEN KNOWLEDGE
• 6 weeks
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Sustainable building design for tropical climates: integrating design of buildings and technology systems

Design climate responsive buildings for tropical climates: technical plants, principles of urban design, and good practices suited to the East African Community.

• Polimi OPEN KNOWLEDGE
• 4 weeks
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Fundamentals of Bioclimatic Design

12 ratings at Coursera

Design climate-responsive buildings: apply thermal mass, glazing, insulation and natural ventilation, testing strategies with thermal models of Louis Kahn's Esherick House.

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

Parsons Career Certificate

Healthier Materials and Sustainable Building

96 ratings at Coursera

Explore how building materials shape human health: classify toxic chemicals, apply material chemistry and toxicology, write healthier specifications, and construct within a circular economy.

• Coursera
• 12 weeks, 10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 4 courses

L&T EduTech

Comfort in Buildings

34 ratings at Coursera

Calculate building heat gain from roofs, walls and fenestration, apply psychrometric charts to thermal comfort models, and design daylighting and artificial lighting to NBC 2016 and ECBC.

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

L&T EduTech

Resource and Waste Management in Buildings

21 ratings at Coursera

Learn to design energy- and water-efficient buildings: building energy simulation, ECBC features, rainwater harvesting, waste segregation, and construction and demolition waste under a circular economy approach.

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

Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS)

Net-Zero Building Fundamentals

19 ratings at Coursera

Apply building science to net-zero design: envelope heat transfer, passive cooling, HVAC load calculation and right-sizing, water cycles, embodied carbon, and lifecycle cost estimation.

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

Seeing the light

1 rating at OpenLearn

This free course, Seeing the light, will teach you about how the Sun affects your home, both in terms of light and warmth and the energy it generates. You will learn about how it can affect your ...

• OpenLearn
• 10 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Energy Demand in Buildings

15 ratings at edX

Discover how building design and occupancy determines the energy demand in buildings and learn how to (re)design low energy buildings.

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