Customized, interactive contract courses on sustainable facilities
and infrastructure
Courses range in length from three hours to multiple days, and have
been offered to military and government clients including the US
Army, US Air Force, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
the State of Georgia, and the USDA Forest Service. Longer courses
include interactive exercises that provide the basis for an organizational
opportunity assessment presented in the form of a report and recommendations.
Delivery of standardized, interactive, public continuing education
courses
Courses have been offered in various configurations in the southeastern
United States, Latin America, and Europe and have targeted industrial,
commercial, residential, and infrastructure audiences. Specific
course topics include:
- Primer on Sustainable Facilities & Infrastructure (8 hours)
- Evaluation and Assessment Tools for SFI (16 hours)
- Economics of SFI (16 hours)
- Sustainable Design Practices (24 hours)
- Sustainable Construction Practices (24 hours)
- Sustainable Real Estate Development (24 hours)
- Sustainable Facility Management, Operations, and Maintenance
(24 hours)
- Sustainability Strategy 101: An Organizational Perspective
(8 hours)
Sustainability-related Graduate and Undergraduate courses
Multiple university-based graduate and undergraduate courses have
been designed and taught by SFI staff in partnership with the Georgia
Institute of Technology’s Colleges of Engineering and Architecture.
These courses include:
- CEE4803B: Sustainable Engineering Problem Solving Laboratory
- BC4803C: Green Building Practices
- CEE6120A: Environmentally Conscious Design and Construction
(now a required graduate course in the Construction Engineering
& Management degree program in Civil & Environmental Engineering)
- CEE8802A: Sustainable Civil Infrastructure Systems
- BC4803B: Laboratory for Sustainable Design
In addition to these courses, SFI staff have team-taught sustainability
and green design modules in other courses in the College of Engineering,
including:
- CEE4100: Construction
- CEE6652: Civil Infrastructure Systems
- CEE6420: Urban Transportation Planning
- CEE6100: Construction Project Planning, Estimating, and Scheduling
- CEE6110: Construction Operations
- ISyE4803: Sustainable Engineering Systems
Tailored presentations to industry and the public
SFI organizes annual expositions and public displays about green
building materials, sustainability assessment, and sustainable problem
solving. SFI also conducts periodic roundtable sessions of sustainable
facilities professionals to discuss the states of sustainable facilities
knowledge. SFI provides educational presentations and demonstrations
on sustainable building materials and technologies to local companies,
community groups, classes at local schools, forums of K-12 teachers,
professional associations, and other organizations. Presentations
have been delivered to organizations ranging from the Construction
Owners Association of America, to the Atlanta Chapter of the US
Green Building Council, to the Georgia Educational Facilities Task
Force, to the National Council of Construction Education and Research.
