Buildings
Introduction
Buildings are generally the largest user of energy and the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions on campuses. Buildings also use significant amounts of potable water. Institutions can design, build, and maintain buildings in ways that provide a safe and healthy indoor environment for inhabitants while simultaneously mitigating the building’s impact on the outdoor environment.
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SCT100: Introduction to Sustainable Built Environments
- Maricopa County Community College District Office (AZ)
Study of the built environment and implications on human health, the natural environment, and society. Understanding of strategies that achieve sustainable design. Exploration of positive and negative sustainable product attributes ...
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Sustainable Design 101: A Syllabus Supplement
- BuildingGreen, Inc. (VT)
Use this syllabus outline if you are teaching an existing course on sustainable design or developing a new course. The weekly topic headings can help organize and prioritize the overall ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Green Design Institute
- Carnegie Mellon University (PA)
The Green Design Institute is a major interdisciplinary education and research effort to make an impact on environmental quality by partnering with companies, government agencies and foundations to develop pioneering ...
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Brooke Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems
- Georgia Institute of Technology (GA)
The Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems enhances Georgia Tech’s research, education, and service missions, and campus operations through leadership, communications, development, and decision making inspired and defined by ...
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IITAC Research Center
- Illinois Institute of Technology (IL)
The keynote of the IITAC Research Center is "Rethinking Metropolis," the architecture of the multiple, competing entities defining urban life in the new millennium. Urban migrations and the proliferation of ...
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Center for Sustainable Design
- Mississippi State University (MS)
The center focuses on developing, systematizing, and promulgating methods that will allow growing populations to live in a sustainable manner.
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Engineering and Design Institute
- Philadelphia University (PA)
Founded in 2000, the Engineering and Design Institute is an interdisciplinary research center focusing on green materials, sustainable design and education. The Institute works on a variety of projects to ...
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Design Center for Global Needs
- San Francisco State University (CA)
The Design Center for Global Needs has been the research and development component in the Department of Design & Industry (DAI). The Center promotes and fosters community, national and international ...
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College of Environmental Design
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
CED stands among the nation’s top environmental design schools. It is one of the world’s most distinguished laboratories for experimentation, research, and intellectual synergy. The first school to ...
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Powell Center for Construction and Environment
- University of Florida (FL)
The Powell Center for Construction and Environment is primarily a research organization dedicated to the resolution of environmental problems associated with planning and architecture activities and the determination of optimum ...
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Center for Sustainable Cities at University of Kentucky
- University of Kentucky (KY)
The CSC Design Studio is a full service architecture and urban design firm with 30 years of award-winning solar and sustainability-driven design experience. Using advanced energy-efficient building standards and technologies ...
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Center for Urban and Community Design
- University of Miami (FL)
The Center offers exhibitions and symposiums, and local and international outreach events related to urban and community design and planning.
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Center for Sustainable Systems
- University of Michigan (MI)
Center for Sustainable Systems advances concepts of sustainability through interdisciplinary research and education. CSS collaborates with diverse stakeholders to develop and apply life cycle based models and sustainability metrics for ...
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Center for Sustainable Building Research
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
The Center for Sustainable Building Research's mission is to lead and support—through research, outreach, and education—the transformation of the regional built environment to provide for the ecological ...
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Ecological Design Center
- University of Oregon (OR)
The Ecological Design Center (EDC) promotes a sustainable relationship between the built and natural worlds. The EDC educates University of Oregon design students with the awareness, sensitivity, and expertise necessary ...
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ecoMOD Project
- University of Virginia (VA)
ecoMOD / ecoREMOD is a research and educational project at the University of Virginia, striving to create sustainable modular and renovated housing units for affordable housing organizations
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Center for the Sustainable Built Environment
- New York University (NY)
The NYU School of Professional Studies Schack Institute of Real Estate's Center for the Sustainable Built Environment (SBE) was established in December 2009 with support from industry leaders and ...
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Jim Pattison Centre of Excellence
- Okanagan College (BC)
Students at the Penticton campus are now experiencing education and training in the Jim Pattison Centre of Excellence in Sustainable Building Technologies and Renewable Energy Conservation. They are learning in ...
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CASE: Center for Architecture Science and Technology
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (NY)
The Center for Architecture Science and Ecology (CASE) is addressing the need for accelerated innovation of Built Ecologies through the development of next-generation building systems. A multi-institutional and professional research ...
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J. Max Bond Center on Design for the Just City
- The City College of New York (NY)
The J. Max Bond Center at the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at the City College of New York, believes that design can have a positive impact on ...
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Sustainable Living Center
- Maharishi University of Management (IA)
The MUM Sustainable Living Center is a classroom, workshop, and office building that serves the rapidly expanding Sustainable Living degree program at Maharishi University of Management. The vision for this ...
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AAS in Green Building Maintenance & Management
- Sullivan County Community College (NY)
The associate in applied science degree in Green Building Maintenance and Management provides students with the skills and knowledge needed to effectively manage buildings that incorporate sustainable building principles and ...
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AAS in Sustainability Technologies
- Central Piedmont Community College (NC)
The Sustainability Technologies Associates Degree curriculum will be based on a core of required science and engineering courses and feature four specialty tracks that will prepare technicians to meet workforce ...
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Associate Degree in Sustainable Development
- Bond University (Queensland)
The Associate Degree in Sustainable Development is designed to equip students with a strong foundation and advanced technical skills for careers within property related industries and professions. Students can specialise ...
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Bachelor of Design Studies in Sustainable Building Technology
- Boston Architectural College (MA)
Students studying Sustainable Building Technology at the Boston Architectural College learn to design in ways that meet the needs of the present without compromising those of the future. Through the ...
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Bachelor of Science in Sustainable Built Environments
- University of Arizona (AZ)
The Bachelor of Science in Sustainable Built Environments is a 4-year, 120-credit, interdisciplinary undergraduate degree that educates students in the comprehensive understanding of sustainability principles and prepares them with the ...
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BS in Architecture & Sustainability
- Ferris State University (MI)
Sustainability is transforming the architectural profession. The term has become ubiquitous; not only is it associated with design and construction of "green" buildings, but it is also attached to economic ...
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BS in Sustainability & the Built Environment
- University of Florida (FL)
The BSSBE degree will allow students to focus on creative solutions to the challenges of building in a world with limited supplies of energy, water and land through hands-on sustainable ...
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PhD in Design, Environment, & the Arts
- Arizona State University (AZ)
The program is at the cutting edge of creating new knowledge in design, environment, and the arts. Broad in scope, the program involves multidisciplinary research interests at both micro- and ...
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PhD in Planning, Design & the Built Environment
- Clemson University (SC)
The PhD Program in Planning, Design and the Built Environment focuses on preparing the next generation of academics and professions for diverse and complex challenges of an interdisciplinary nature. The ...
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PhD in Sustainable Building Systems
- University of Massachusetts Amherst (MA)
Sustainable living is a vital issue on many people's minds today. Mainstream public and politicians alike have resolved to reduce pollution and waste and reverse global warming. This is ...
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Certificate in Sustainable Design
- University of Florida (FL)
The Interdisciplinary Concentration and Certificate in Sustainable Design (ICCSD) was created to integrate existing sustainable design resources across the College of Design, Construction and Planning in response to broadening interest ...
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Certificate in Sustainable Design
- Boston Architectural College (MA)
The Sustainable Design program at the BAC offers fully online graduate-level courses that are faculty-led, interactive, and asynchronous. Learn about how buildings interact with the natural environment and the choices ...
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Ecological Design Certificate
- University of Oregon (OR)
The Ecological Design Certificate is a design-based, interdisciplinary program focused on the development of a practical framework for the integration of the built environment with locale and region specific natural ...
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Graduate Certificate in Sustainable Practices
- Philadelphia University (PA)
The online Graduate Certificate in Sustainable Practices program is geared toward working professionals seeking to build their knowledge-base and credentials in the field of sustainable design, engineering and construction of ...
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Professional Diploma in Architecture: Advanced Environmental & Energy Studies
- Graduate School of the Environment
This course is delivered at CAT's Graduate School of the Environment based in the award-winning Wales Institute for Sustainable Education (WISE). Surrounded by mountains and forest, this location fosters ...
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Sustainability and the Built Environment Certificate Program
- University of California, Davis (CA)
UC Davis Extension's Sustainability and the Built Environment Certificate Program expands upon the highly successful Green Building and Sustainable Design classroom program. This certificate offers a comprehensive curriculum on ...
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Joint Degree in Architecture & Sustainable Design
- The Catholic University of America (DC)
Students may enroll simultaneously in the school's accredited Master of Architecture (M. Arch. ) program and the Master of Science in Sustainable Design. This allows students to obtain the two ...
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Joint MS degree in Architecture & Environmental Management
- Yale University (CT)
The Yale School of Architecture and the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies offer a joint-degree program in Architecture and Environmental Management. This program is directed to individuals who wish ...
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MA in Sustainable Design
- Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MN)
MCAD’s Master of Arts in Sustainable Design program was developed exclusively for busy working professionals with an online platform that offers small classes, peer-to-peer interaction, and engagement with renowned ...
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Master in Design Studies: Energy & Environments
- Harvard University (MA)
Energy and Environments proposes an architectural agenda for energy in order to tackle 21st century ecological challenges. Upturning the conventional definition of "sustainable design. " which tends to privilege efficiency and ...
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Master in Design Studies: Risk & Resilience
- Harvard University (MA)
Risk and Resilience considers communities and locations susceptible to crisis and develops strategies to tackle those challenges preemptively. Cities around the world face unpredictable challenges (natural disasters, long-term environmental change ...
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Master in Design Studies: Urbanism, Landscape, Ecology
- Harvard University (MA)
Urbanism, Landscape, Ecology combines the vision of long range effects and swiftness of short range responses to develop new modes of representation and new forms of investigation to enable new ...
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Master in Sustainable Design
- University of Florida (FL)
The three-semester Master's Degree in Sustainable Design (SDM) gives students the interdisciplinary knowledge, skills and confidence to be a leader in the Sustainability Revolution. The program features a low-residency-online ...
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Master of Architecture with a Focus in Sustainability
- Rochester Institute of Technology (NY)
The program is founded upon the principle that architecture programs can no longer afford to teach anything other than sustainable architecture. In addition to courses in industrial ecology, sustainable science ...
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MDS in Sustainable Design
- Boston Architectural College (MA)
The Master of Design Studies in Sustainable Design creates leaders of the green building revolution. Through study with leading practitioners and thinkers in the field and shared learning in a ...
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MS in Architectural Engineering
- Lawrence Technological University (MI)
This unique program offers a combined Bachelor's of Science and Master Degree in 5 years. Architectural engineers have the artistic vision to understand what an architect is trying to ...
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MS in Architecture with a Track in Sustainable Design
- University of Minnesota, Crookston (MN)
The planet, for better or worse, is becoming urbanized. By 2050, according to former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, six billion people, representing two-thirds of humanity, will be living in ...
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MS in Environmental Architecture
- Murdoch University (Western Australia)
Course Structure - 48 credit points. First Year courses include Energy Efficient Building Design; Greenhouse Science and Policy; Sustainable Urban Design; Cities and Sustainability; Global and Regional Sustainability; Climate Sensible Home ...
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MS in Sustainable Building Systems
- University of Massachusetts Amherst (MA)
Many aspects influence sustainability in the built environment: Site selection and environmental modification, design of buildings and structures, choice of materials and structural systems, selection and sizing of building energy ...
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This tab provides access to data collected through AASHE’s Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System™ (STARS). STARS is a transparent, self-reporting framework for colleges and universities to measure their sustainability performance. STARS enables meaningful comparisons over time and across institutions using a common set of measurements developed with broad participation from the campus sustainability community.
All responses reference content from reports under the latest version of STARS, version 2.2. AASHE membership and log-in is required.
OP 3: Building Design & Construction
- Percent of building space certified for green building construction and renovation
- A list of green building new construction and major renovation projects
- An inventory of green building new construction and major renovation projects
- Website URL - Green building design and construction program
OP 4: Building Design & Construction
- Percent of building space certified for operations and maintenance
- Description of sustainable operations and maintenance policies and/or programs
- Website URL - Existing building operations and maintenance
Additional analysis on scores and quantitative fields can be conducted using the STARS Benchmarking Tool.