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Online courses and certification ( CSD , GCSD )
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The courses have been developed in partnership with BuildingGreen, providers
of authoritative information on sustainable design and constru ction since 1985.
Many of our online, instructor-led courses are part of the USGBC’s Education Providers
Program that endorses high quality offerings from proven green building leaders.
Study online at your convenience
Interact with expert aculty in small,graduate-level classes
Prepare or LEED and beyond
New courses each semester
Earn AIA HSW Learning Units
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Sustainable Design Certifcate Contents
5 Welcoe o Ssaiable Desi
6 Wa o Epec/Ce Seese Scedle
7 Coses
Sustainable Design
as a Way of Thinking pg 7
Learning from Sustainable Design
through History pg 7
The Zero Energy Home:
What, How, And If pg 7
Site Design, Landscaping
and Site-Water Issues pg 7
Green Practice: Energy and Air
Quality Principles pg 8
Materials, Resources, and Indoor
Environmental Quality pg 8
Building Envelope pg 8
Environmental Systems pg 8
Sustainable Transportation pg 8
Sustainable Communities: Land Use,
Transportation, and Planning pg 9
High Performance Buildings
and the LEED Rating System pg 9
Sustainable Design in Practice pg 9
Sustainable Design and Building
Information Modeling (BIM) pg 9
10 Facl
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Olie Ssaiable Desi Coses ad Ce ificae
Poa offeed b e Boso Aciecal Collee
The Boston Architectural College (BAC) has oered the Sustainable Design Certiicate
Program since 2002. There are more than a dozen college-level courses in the program,
all o which are available online. These eight week courses, which are instructor-led and
interactive, may be taken individually or applied to the certiicate program. Through the
online oerings, courses are accessible to practicing proessionals and green building
enthusiasts around the world.
The certiicate provides a ocused course o study that leads to a credential representing
knowledge and skill in sustainable design. To complete the certiicate, students choose six
o the available courses, which provides them the opportunity to customize their studies
and ocus on their particular areas o interest. The certiicate program is appropriate
or individuals seeking LEED accreditation, as well as or those who are already LEED
accredited and are seeking more in-depth knowledge. Students in the certiicate program
gain a strong oundation in green building practices and principles, as well as exposure
to LEED accreditation requirements, processes, and resources. Additional study areas
include site design, lie cycle costing, renewable energy sources, materials, indoor air
quality, and sustainable community and regional planning.
The strength o the program is evidenced in the act that all o the BAC’s sustainable
design courses are accepted or AIA Health, Saety, Welare Learning Units and several
have been approved as part o the USGBC’s Education Providers Program.
The BAC’s courses and certiicate program have been developed in partnership with
BuildingGreen, LLC., a trusted source o unbiased inormation or building industry
proessionals concerned with environmental perormance. Alex Wilson and Nadav Malin
o BuildingGreen have collaborated on curriculum and course development, and Alex
Wilson is an instructor or the Sustainable Design as a Way o Thinking online course.
For more inormation about the Sustainable Design oerings at the BAC,
visit ww w.e-bac .ed/ee or contact:
Lace Flece, AIA, LEED APDirector o Sustainable Design
Boston Architectural College
320 Newbury St. Boston, MA 02115 USA
Phone: +1 (617) 585-0129
Email: lance.letcher@the-bac.edu
Welcome
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JunE 8 - AuguSt 1
Online, no prerequisites:
Sustainable Design as a Way o Thinking
Green Practice: Energy and
Air Quality Principles
High Perormance Design and the
LEED Rating System
Sustainable Design and Building Inormation
Modeling (BIM)
The Zero Energy Home: What , How, and I
Online, with some prerequisites:
Environmental Systems
2009 Fall Scedle
Coi Soo ! Wac o websie fo
pcoi cose ifoaio!
Wa o epec i a olie Ssaiable Desi cose
Online course technical requirements
include: Access to a computer with a stan-
dards compliant browser (most recent
versions o Internet Explorer or Fireox
preerred; Mac users must use Fireox)
and an internet connection (broadband
preerred). For more inormation, please
visit: www.e-bac.ed/ee.
The online courses do not have speciic
meeting times but are highly interactive.
For the duration o an online course,
weekly correspondence via email and the
discussion orums is required. Courses are
eight weeks long and are all instructor-
led. Materials and assignments are posted
on an assigned day/time and are available
to students throughout each week.
tuItIOn (PEr COurSE)
Certifcate Credit $1,150
Graduate Certifcate Credit $1,725
Audit $730
2009 Se Scedle
Sustainable Design Certifcate
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SuStAInABLE DESIgn AS A WAy OF thInkIng
1.5 Credits • 24 AIA HSW
USGBC Education ProvidersLevel 300Instructors: Alex Wilson, Tristan Korthals Altes,
David Foley, Elena Douvlou-Beggiora
This course traces the history o the sustainable design move-
ment then introduces its primary tenets using the LEED Rating
System as the organizing structure. Readings in the online ver-
sion o the course are drawn largely rom Environmental Build-
ing News. Online discussions are design to acquaint the stu-
dents with the language, philosophy, and principles o sustainable
design. This course examines the underlying principles o sustain-
ability and design. The class ocuses on environmental sustain-
ability and thought processes that c an help proessionals design a
more sustainable world. Major aspects o environmental building
that will be addressed include energy eiciency, indoor environ-
mental quality and land use. Ways o evaluating the sustainabil-
ity o the built environment are discussed including the LEED™
rating system.
LEArnIng FrOm SuStAInABLE
DESIgn thrOugh hI StOry
1.5 Credits
Instructor: Suzanne Sowinski
This course will explore the evolution o green practices in archi-
tecture as expressed in buildings over time. Sustainable building is
not new to architecture. Our buildings have been sustainable over
time, by connecting to nature, using local resources, using climate
and geographical relationships. Each time period has had quali-
ties, expressions, and advances in sustainable design. The pro-
tection o natural resources, conservation o energy, use o the
climate and site planning concepts, designing or end users, and
use o holistic principles will be examined or established periods
o architecture. The student will be given an overview o green
architecture as seen through the lens o its evolution and under-
stand how sustainable building has been integral to architecture
and building throughout our history. The course will also tie the
LEED rating system ive environmental categories into the lec-
tures. Peeisies: Sustainable Design as a Way o Thinking,
and Green Practice: Energy and Air Quality Principles or equiv-
alent knowledge/experience. Please contact the CE oice i youare in doubt about meeting the prerequisites.
thE zErO EnErgy hOmE:
WhAt, hOW, An D I F
1.5 CreditsInstructor: Thomas Hartman and Andrew Webster
Zero is simply a number, an absolute; yet it is neither positive
or negative. A Zero Energy Home is currently a goal and ever
present in the media, but not yet accomplished at theLevel o
our technical potential. We will explore the various de initions o
Zero Energy and understand t he implications o the term within
several contexts: bioregional, local and site-constrained. The var
ious energy loads being counted toward the absolute o zero wil
be explained, as well as the design opportunities to reduce them
The occupant’s behavior and habits in the home are critical to the
successul energy outcome, and eedback opportunities and data
rom case studies will be presented and examined. Metrics o con
sumption, peak load, and annual use will be presented and com
pared. The principles o orientation, thermal envelope, renewable
energy systems that produce (positive), as well as mechanical
electrical, and ventilation systems that consume (negative) will be
explained and investigated or both case studies and theoretica
projects or exploration.
SItE DESIgn, LAnDSCAPIng
AnD SItE-WAtEr ISSuES
1.5 Credits • 24 AIA HSW
USGBC Education Providers Level 300
Instructor: Beth Paulson
Structures are sustainably sited based on an assessment o site
speciic climatic and natural conditions. An understanding o the
geologic, hydrologic, and ecosystem processes, as well as regiona
climate, and site-speciic microclimates, are the oundations upon
which sustainable planning and design are based. This course wil
introduce principles and practices, and materials and methods
that allow the realization o responsible solutions in today’s bur-
geoning green marketplace. Students will explore the role that
architects and other design team proessionals share in generating
sustainable site design as site elements are used to increase com
ortLevels, and lower energy use and operating costs. In green
practice, the site’s climatic and environmental eatures directly
inluence orm and location as architectural design moves beyond
the building envelope and into the landscape.
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grEEn PrACtICE: EnErgy
AnD AIr quALIty PrInCIPLES
1.5 Credits • 24 AIA HSWUSGBC Education Providers Level 300
Instructors: John Boehs and Elena Primikiri
The concept o an environmentally conscious building should
take into account energy consumption, the quality o indoor air,
and most importantly human comort. Indigenous strategies that
adapt to the rigors o the local climate and contemporary biocli-
matic architecture are part o this introductory course to sustain-
able design. Participants will be introduced to the human needs
or comort and shelter as well as psychrometrics and the phys-
ics o heat transer and heat loss calculations. Building orm, ori-
entation, and indoor spaces will also be discussed as they relate
to sun, wind, and site, as well as bioclimatic design, passive solar
design, natural cooling, and daylighting.
mAtErIALS, rESOurCES, AnD InDOOr
EnvIrOnmEntAL quALIty
1.5 Credits • 24 HSW AIA Hrs/LUsLevel 300
Instructors: Margie McNally
This course gives students the tools they need to evaluate a
material based on how it impacts the built and natural environment.
Since people in western cultures tend to spend most o their time
indoors, speciic attention will be paid to Indoor Environmental
Quality (IEQ). Environmentally responsible materials selection
will be discussed, including the importance o waste, Lie Cycle
Assessment (LCA), and all aspects o the manuacturing process.
Interior design issues that are covered include the importance
o natural daylighting, Indoor Air Quality (IAQ), and acoustics.
Current materials rating systems and speciication writing aids
will be reviewed. Case studies representing best practices in
sustainable design o interiors will be presented or discussion.
This course is directly useul to anyone selecting materials or any
kind o building project.
BuILDIng EnvELOPE
1.5 Credits • 24 AIA HSW
USGBC Education Providers Level 300
Instructor: TBA
It is the building enclosure where many sustainable design inten-tions ind their physical expression. Here, as well, is where the
majority o legal claims against designers ind their expression.
The building enclosure has three major assemblies-oundation,
walls, and roo- each with as many as 10 (or more) components.
Sustainable design requires integration o these assemblies and
their components in a way that manages the major degradation
vectors- water, air, heat, radiation, pests, and even occupants.
This course covers the building enclosures or both commercial
and residential structures. A major ocus o the course is the
relationships among green building, building science, energy e i
ciency, durability, and risk management . Students leave the course
with a new way o understanding, analyzing, and designing sustainable enclosures. An equal emphasis is placed on design, specii-
cation, construction, and commissioning o building enclosures
Peeisies: Sustainable Design as a Way o Thinking, or equiv-
alent knowledge in sustainable design. Working knowledge o con-
struction documents, including detail sections and specifcations.
EnvIrOnmEntAL SyStEmS
1.5 Credits • 24 AIA HSW
Instructor: Asesh Raychaudhuri
Designed as a ollow-up course to Energy and Air Quality Prin-
ciples, this course covers environmental systems undamentals
HVAC system types, ventilation requirements, demand-con
trolled and energy recovery ventilation, underloor-air sys-
tems, air distribution, uel choices, understanding energy ei-
ciency, zero-energy buildings, renewable energy systems
solar thermal systems, building-integrated photovoltaics, bio
uels, energy modeling, and plumbing/water conservation
Peeisies: Green Practice: Energy and Air Quality Princi
ples. Please contact the CE o ice i you are in doubt about meeting
the prerequisites.
SuStAInABLE trAnSPOrtAtIOn
1.5 Credits
Instructor: John Hersey
In the pursuit o a model t hat meets needs o the present with-
out compromising the needs o the uture, sustainable transpor
tation is inextricably linked to sustainable development. Start-
ing rom a context o land-use planning, this course will examine
current transportation models and their impac t on our environ
ment, consider alternatives to these models, and discuss meth
ods to aect change beyond the academic setting. The course
provides an overview o sustainability as envisioned by the Smart
Growth paradigm and explores issues o transport ation policy as
they pertain to a variety o modes, uses and users. Students wil
learn to think about transpor tation in close relation to land use
and gain amiliarity with local, national and international models
o sustainable transportation.
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SuStAInABLE COmmunItIES: LAnD uSE ,
trAnSPOrtAtIOn, AnD PLAnnIng
1.5 Credits • 24 AIA HSW Instructor: James O’Connell
This course will examine how communities across the nation are
grappling with such smart growth issues as aordable housing,
sprawl, urban revitalization, economic development, transporta-
tion investments, and open space protection. These issues are
also collectively reerred to as sustainable development, growth
management or New Urbanism. The course will cover the his-
tory o sprawl and current policy debates about land use, urban
design, regulation, and public and private investment. The course
will eature critiques o speciic development projects, tailored to
the interests and communities o students.
hIgh PErFOrmAnCE DESIgn
AnD thE LEED r AtIng SyStEm
1.5 Credits • 24 AIA HSW
USGBC Education Providers Level 300
Instructor: Ashley Muse
High perormance design is changing the way buildings are built
and the way design and construction proessionals work. The US
Green Building Council developed the LEED Rating System as a
tool to promote and propagate high perormance building design;
LEED has become the dominant green building rating system in
the US and is being adapted or use around the world. This course
presents integrated design and sustainability principles through the
lens o the LEED or New Construction Rating System. Students
will learn how to use LEED on projects both as a design tool and
or building certiication. They will gain an understanding o the
evolving role o LEED in proessional practice and in larger issues
o human & environmental health. S peciic topics include in-depth
look at the six major LEED categories: Sustainable Sites, Water
Eiciency, Energy and Atmosphere, Materials and Resources, and
Indoor Environmental Quality, plus the use o integrated design
practices, inancial costs and beneit s o green building, and more.
This course is appropriate or students with some back ground in
green building who are interested in learning how to apply the
LEED Rating System principles into building design. It covers, but
does not ocus solely on, preparation or the LEED AP exam.
Peeisies: Green Practice: Energy and Air Quality Princi-ples, or equivalent experience in design and construction; and
Sustainable Design as a Way o Thinking, or equivalent knowledge
in sustainable design.
SuStAInABLE DESIgn In PrACtICE
1.5 Credits • 24 AIA HSW
Instructor: Richard Sullivan
Eective organization and design process are as essential to green
design as technical knowledge. This course will address tech-
niques or mobilizing support or sustainable building among cli
ents, unding sources, sub-consultants and the project team. A
variety o strategies will be discussed with regard to integrateddesign, goal setting, speciications, commissioning, post-occu
pancy evaluation, LEED certiication, construction administra
tion, and policy implications. Resources or urther learning wil
be provided and discussed as well as case studies representing
best practices in orchestrating sustainable design projects. Pe
eisies: Sustainable Design as a Way o Thinking or equiv-
alent knowledge in sustainable design, and one o the ollowing
courses: Green Practice: Energy and Air Quality Principles, Build
ing Envelope, or Materials, Resources and Indoor Environmenta
Quality. Courses in our Planning track.
SuStAInABLE DESIgn AnD BuILDIng
InFOrmAtIOn mODELIng (BIm)
1.5 Credits
Instructors: Bradley Nies
Buildings are the largest single resource consumer in the world
The United States consumes 25% o the world’s energy and the
US building industry accounting for 40% of those resources. In
order to solve the problem o global warming, we need to look
at the AEC industry and move towards a truly sustainable build
ing practice built on solutions which embrace conservation, e i
ciency, health, prosperity and elegance. Building Inormation
Modeling (BIM) allows designers to change communication and
worklow, making the practice o architecture more eicient and
better equipped to address global climate change and resource
issues. It allows the design team to create the building in a vir-
tual environment and test a number o design variables with cli
matic givens to test and streamline building perormance opti-
mizing resource and material usage. This class will investigate the
solutions currently available using BIM to provide more sustain
able building solutions.
We recommend having a computer that meets the speciications
below. Also, knowledge o a BIM application is not necessary but
it is strongly recommended to gain the ull beneit o the lesson
in this class. I you do not own a BIM application, you can down
load a ree copy o Revit using your student email address at s
des.aodes.co with a license valid or one year.
For system requirements, go to ww w.e-bac .ed/ee
select Course Descriptions, then click on System Requirement
ater this course.
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mArA BAum
High Perormance Buildings & the LEED Rat ing System
Mara Baum, AIA, LEED AP, is a designer and researcher atAnshen+Allen Architects in San Francisco. She received her
Master o Architecture and Master o City Planning rom Uni-
versity o Caliornia Berkeley and a Bachelor o Arts in architec-
ture rom Washington University, and has been a LEED Accred-
ited Proessional or 7 years. Her proessional interests include
holistic approaches to net zero energy and water use, human
health and well being, and urban and regional planning and design.
Much o her current work in hospital design ocuses on the inter-
section between ecological considerations and the creation o a
healthy and healing built environment. Mara’s diverse proessional
experience includes work in green building consulting, a building
science research, higher education, architecture and urban design.
She was the US Green Building Council’s 2006 Ginsberg Sustain-
ability Fellow and is currently a liaison to the national USGBC
Research Committee. Mara also teaches LEED and sustainability
classes within Anshen+Allen and in the Bachelor o Architecture
and Master o Architecture Programs at Caliornia College o the
Arts.
JOhn BOEhS
Green Practice: Energy and Air Quality Principles
John obta ined mechanica l engineer ing degrees rom the Univer-
sity o Massachusetts at Amherst (MSME) and Lehigh University
(BSME). John is licensed in the Commonwealth o Massachusetts
as both a Mechanical Engineer and a Construction Supervisor and
is a LEED Accredited Proessional.
ELEnA DOuvLOu-BEggIOrA
Sustainable Design as a Way o Thinking
Elena is a registered Architect both in the UK and Greece. She has
a special research interest in sustainable design and urban regen-
eration, building monitoring, simulation and post-occupancy eval-
uation and has presented her research on the subject and lectured
in various institutions in UK, as well as in Greece, Dubai, Tunisia,
Estonia, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands and Brazil. Within her area
o expertise she has published articles and ha s presented papers in
international conerences. Her interest in the environment led her
to complete a Masters in Advanced Architectural Studies at theUniversity o Sheield ocusing on passive cooling techniques and
later, as a scholar o the State Scholarships Foundation o Greece,
to complete a PhD in the area o climatic responsive design and
occupant comort.
Elena joined the University o Portsmouth rom October 2003
until August 2008 as a Senior Lecturer. She taught studio design to
both undergraduate and diploma students including projects such
as the Eco-House Live Project and coordinated units on the sub-
jec t o Susta inable Development . She al so acted as the direc tor o
the MSc Sustainable Architecture and Environment course and ha
supervised more than 20 MSc projects.
While at Portsmouth, she successully completed the Post Grad
uate Certiicate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education in
UK, and is a Fellow o the British Higher Education Academy
She is currently an independent environmental consultant. As an
architect and environmentalist she is able to draw on her under
standing o sustainable approaches to design rom dierent cul-
tures with a view to establishing a best practice dependent upon
climatic conditions.
DAvID FOLEy
Sustainable Design as a Way o Thinking
David Foley has worked in the ields o energy eiciency envi-
ronmental building since 1980, as a designer, builder, teacher and
researcher. Since 1994, he has been a partner in Holland and Foley
Architecture, LLC, a small irm engaged in environmental build
ing design and consulting. Prior to 1994, David has worked fo
the Maine State Energy Oice, the Lawrence Berkeley Nationa
Laboratory, Fisher-Friedman Architects o San Francisco, Wil
liam R. Sepe Architect and Planner o Camden, Maine, John Scholz
Architects o Camden, Maine, and Tanglewood Camp and Learn
ing Center o Lincolnville, Maine. David has a Master o Architec
ture rom the University o Caliornia, Berkeley, a Master o Pro
essional Studies in Resource Economics rom the University o
Maine, and a Bachelor o Arts (cum laude) in Community Design
rom Dartmouth College. In 1996, he was one o six U.S. recip-
ients o a German Marshall Fund Environmental Fellowship, to
research “green” buildings in Europe. His design or an aordable
environmental house was awarded “Best Lie-Cycle Cost” by the
Maine State Housing Authority in 2006. David lives with his wie
Judy Berk in Northport, Maine , in a home he designed and built
He is an avid gardener, sea-kayaker and crosscountry skier.
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thOmAS rC hArtmAn, AIA
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Thomas RC Hartman is a partner at Coldham & Hartman Archi-tects in Amherst, MA. The irm provides proessional design ser-
vices or residential, commercial and institutional clients com-
mitted to creating green buildings and communities throughout
the Northeast. The irms completed work includes the Student
Housing and the College o the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, ME, the
Moomaw residence in Williamstown, MA, the Harris Center or
Conservation Education in Hancock, NH, t he Hawthorne Valley
Farm Store in Ghent, NY, and Rocky Hill Cohousing in Northamp-
ton, MA among other notable green and high per ormance build-
ings. He has served on the Board o Directors o the Northeast
Sustainable Energy Association or two terms and has been Trea-
surer. Additionally or NESEA, he has been Chair, Co-Chair, and
organized and presented at numerous Building Energy Coner-
ences. He is currently the Treasurer and President-Elect o the
Western MA Chapter o the American Institute o Architects.
Tom graduated with a Proessional Bachelor Degree rom the
School o Architecture o the University o Southern Caliornia in
Los Angeles, and an Associate in Architectural Engineering Tech-
nology rom Wentworth Institute in Boston. Ater graduation
rom USC in 1995, he was awarded the USC Architectural Guild
Traveling Fellowship and studied and visited intentional commu-
nities in Scandinavia, Holland and Great Brit ain. Prior to joining
as a uture partner at C&H in 1999, he worked at DiMella Shaer
Associates in Boston, DMJM Keating in Los Angeles, and various
consulting positions including construction documentation anal-
ysis and 3d computer model representation or a Thelen Marrin
Johnson & Bridges on a public transit lit igati on case. He is a Reg-
istered Architect in Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Ver-
mont, New York, Connecticut and holds an NCARB Certiicate.
JOhn hErS Ey
Sustainable Transportation
John Her sey is a t ransportation pl anner or the Centra l Transpor-
tation Planning Sta, the technical and policyanalysis support to
the Boston Region Metropolitan Planning Organization and other
members o the region’s transport ation community. He received
a Bachelor o Arts in sustainable urban planning and a Mastero Regional Planning both rom the University o Massachusetts
at Amherst. As a student, his work earned the 2006 Student
Planning Award rom the Massachusetts Chapter o the Amer-
ican Planning Association. He has worked at the municipal and
stateLevel on a variety o planning-related issues, including eco-
nomic development, civic engagement, community branding and
placemaking, urban saety, homelessness, environmental preser-
vation, and multi-modal transpor tation policy. A lielong resident
o the North Shore, John enjoys community engagement, work-
ing and playing outside, ruminating about planning concepts, and
his riends.
mArgIE m CnALLy
Materials, Resources, and Indoor Environmental Quality
Margie McNally is an interior designer and environmental con
sultant specializing in sustainable design. Her approach to inte
rior design is a relationship between sustainability, resource ei
ciency, good indoor environmental quality and health. Margie
has an associate’s degree in interior design and is licensed with
NCIDQ (National Council or Interior Design Qualiication) in
the state o Massachusetts or the practice o interior design. She
also is a USGBC (United States Green Building Council) LEED
Accredited Proessional (Leadership in Energy and Environmen
tal design) as well as an ALA Lighting Associate (American Light
ing Association). She has more than15 years o experience in the
ield. Margie worked as The Environmental Program Coordi
nator or the American Lung Association in a team eort with
southeastern Massachusetts schools to address indoor air quality
issues. For several years Margie was the Lighting Program Coor
dinator or Massachusetts Energy Star Homes where she also
administered the LEED or Homes pilot program. She has con
ducted many workshops on green building including a BSA spon
sored LEED or Homes training or architects and workshops at
area colleges and technical high schools. Margie has written and
published several articles on green design including a recent ea
ture in Antiques and Fine Arts Magazine. In an eort to assist he
clients in the selection o more healthul and resourceul materi
als and urnishings or their homes and o ices, Margie works as a
consultant as well as a workshop presenter. Materials selection
speciication review and energy eicient lighting design are ser-
vices she oers. Indoor air quality, healthier alternatives in build
ing materials and design methods are subjects that her workshops
explore.
AShLEy muSE
LEED 2009 AP Test Preparation
Ashley Muse has experience in creating high perormance, sus-
tainable buildings. Through her work with Rocky Mountain Insti
tute’s Built Environment Team, she provides recommendations
and integrated design strategies or a range o project typesincluding institutional and educational buildings, large mixed-used
developments, and campus master plans. She ha s expertise within
the subjects o energy and water use, resource eiciency, day-
light analysis, material selection, and indoor environmental qual
ity. Ashley has held leadership roles in RMI’s LEED certiication
team and the US Green Building Council’s Emerging Green Build
ers Committee and Colorado Chapter.
Sustainable Design Certifcate Faculty
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AnnE nICkLIn
Green Practice: Energy and Air Quality
Anne Nicklin is a designer with the sustainable group at GenslerArchitects in San Francisco. Her work ocuses on LEED certii-
cation, integration o HVAC and architectural designs, as well as
innovative handling o construction waste and salvaged materials.
Prior to her work in Caliornia, she was with Atelier Ten Envi-
ronmental Designers in New York City and received her MArch-I
rom Pratt Institute in Brooklyn,NY. Anne is a LEED accredited
proessional, a certiied deconstruction specialist, and sits on the
Advisory Board o the Away Station in Marin, CA.
BrAD nIES
Sustainable Design and Building Inormation Modeling (BIM)
Brad is director o Elements, a division o BNIM Architects that
ocuses on sustainable design consulting. He is a registered archi-
tect in the state o Missouri with 13 years o experience and a
LEED® Accredited Proessional. Brad has worked on several
LEED Certiied projects including two that achieved Platinum
Certiication. Brad was the sustainable design consultant or the
USGBC LEED Platinum Certiied Heier International Center in
Little Rock, Arkansas, which won a 2007 AIA COTE Top Ten
Green Project Award and a National AIA 2008 Institute Honor
Award. Volunteering as part o the Greater Kansa s City Chamber
o Commerce Climate Protection Partnership Br ad is co-leading
151 irms through inventory and action plan development. In 2002
Brad led the team that created Implement: The City o Seattle’s
Sustainable Building Tool. Brad is co-author o “Green BIM Suc-
cessul Sustainable Design with Building Inormation Modeling”.
JAmE S O ’COnnELL
Sustainable Communities: Land Use, Transportation, and Planning
James C. O’Connell is a Community Pl anner at the Boston O ice
o the National Park Service. He has worked in planning positions
in Cape Cod and Springield, MA.. He has written our books
and many articles on planning and New England history. His
books include Becoming Cape Cod: Creating a Seaside Resort.
He serves as chair o the Massachusetts Zoning Reorm Work-
ing Group, which has developed the Community Planning Act . He
has written the report “Ahead or Behind the Curve?: Compact
Mixed-Use Development in Suburban Boston” (2004) for the Lin-coln Institute o Land Policy.
BEth PAuLSOn
Site Design, Landscaping and Site-Water Issues
Beth Paulson is a landscape designer who promotes the use oEcology and Plant Community Models in her work with private
clients and design irms, most recently at Walter Cudnohusky
Associates. She has studied Environmental Design and Landscape
Architecture at the University o Massachusetts. She currently
works as an Energ y Specialist or the Center or Ecological Tech
nology, where she is an EnergyStar Homes and a LEED or Home
Rater and landscape consultant.
ASESh r AyChAuDhurI
Environmental Systems
Asesh is a Senior Mechanical Engineer at the U.S. Depar tment o
Veterans Aairs in Washington, DC, where he works on greening
the department’s buildings. He is a registered Proessional Engi
neer and a Certiied Energy Manager. He has extensive experi
ence in engineering and project management. Asesh is a member
o ASHRAE and AEE. He has also been teaching at dierent uni
versities/colleges in Boston area or a number o years, includ-
ing the BAC and Northeastern, where he has taught Environmen
tal Systems.
trIStAn rOBErtS
Sustainable Design as a Way o Thinking
Tristan Korthals Altes is Managing Editor at BuildingGreen, Inc.
publishers o Environmental Building News (EBN) and the Green
Spec product directory. At EBN, the leading source or green
building news and inormation, Korthals Altes has applied his
experience in residential construction and renovations while
exploring key topics in green building such as historic preser
vation, green product selection, designing buildings or hygiene
nanotechnology in building materials, and third-party green prod
uct certiications. Korthals Altes has recently spoken at Yale Uni
versity, the Southace Energy Institute, the State University o
New York, and the Governor’s Institutes o Vermont, and his
writing has appeared in Landscape Architecture, Energy Design
Update, and GreenSource magazines. Korthals Altes holds a mas
ter’s certiicate in Sustainable Design rom the Boston Architec
tural College and is a LEED Accredited Proessional.
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SuzAnnE SOWInSkI
History o Sustainable Building
Suzanne Sowinski is the director o sustainable strategies or Sow-inski Sullivan Architects. Named by NJ Biz as one o New Jersey’s
“Top 50 Women in Business” this year, her designs have been rec-
ognized in various national and international publications, includ-
ing, The NY Times, Landscape Architecture, and Architectural
Record. Currently, Ms. Sowinski has the ollowing notable proj-
ects underway through her irm. A zero energy ootprint rail sta-
tion in the Meadowlands; research on sustainable strategies or
the Harmon Shop Facilities, which include a $300 million LEED
Silver building within a larger, multi billion dollar complex, a
green parking garage study and LEED strategies or stations or
the MTA/Metro North Railroad; Currently there are over $800
million worth o buildings that are being designed to meet LEED
certiication or better status under her responsibility within the
irm. Additionally, she recently received a grant rom the BAC
to write a new class on the history o sustainable building. Cer-
tiications and Accreditations: USGBC – LEED AP, US Depart-
ment o Energy’s Energy Code 2007 Cer tiication o Compliance,
Licensed Architect – NJ, NY, CT, VA, ME, VT, PA and NCARB
Accredited Proessional.
rIChArD SuLLIvAn
Materials, Resources, and Indoor Air Quality
Richard Sullivan has over 20 years o technical and design expe-
rience has been built on designing and building architecture in
the public realm. He has designed and/or managed the design
for over 4 miles of New York City’s new waterfront parks from
Roosevelt Island to Brooklyn, Long Island City and Manhattan. He
has designed improvements to over seven dozen rail proper ties
over the past two decades, most recently or the new $65 mil-
lion Yankee Stadium Station in the Bronx. Long a proponent o
green building and the eective reuse o urban inrastructure, he
has also received local and regiona l awards or his historic preser-
vation and building rehabilitation projects. With his wie Suzanne
Sowinski and their irm o 25 people, he provides creative archi-
tectural services to a broad spectrum o public clients throughout
the northeast as well as private entities such as the Four Seasons
and Intercontinental Hotel companies. Certiications and Accred-
itations: USGBC – LEED AP, Registered Architect – NJ, NY, CT,FL, MT, ME, DC, NCARB Accredited Proessional.
StEPhEn tuCkEr
Building Envelope
Stephen Tucker is a registered architect in Boston. Throughouthis career he has designed, speciied, and managed the construc
tion o buildings large and small. Ater graduation rom the Har
vard Graduate School o Design in 1970, Steve worked or severa
prominent Boston design irms and in 1975 won the irst EOCD
design competition in Massachusetts or housing or the elderly
which was sponsored by the Boston Housing Authority. Severa
o his early private residential projects won design awards and
have been published. In the late 1970’s, ollowing his natural incli-
nation to technical matters, he began a decade-long independen
practice as a construction speciier. In the e arly 1980’s he joined
with two riends to orm Dean Tucker Shaw, Inc. which grew to
a ity-person architectural irm specializing in buildings or medi
cine and biotechnology as well as providing design services in the
areas o corporate interiors and building preservation. He served
as the irm’s Technica l Principal. Since the mid-90 ’s he has devoted
his energies to working with younger designers to improve their
Level o technical expertise and as a reviewer o building detailing
within an overall quality assurance program under his direction
Most recently this has involved him in designing building envelope
incorporating high-perormance air barriers and new approaches
to exterior wall and window construction and sealing.
AnDrEW WEBStEr
The Zero Energy Home: What, How and I
Andrew Webster’s ocus has long been on the translation o com
plex ideas into understandable orms. His career in visual commu
nication began in documentary ilm, producing, writing and edit
ing. When the technology subjects he ocused on grew stale, he
moved to the more complex world o commercial production
managing dynamic projects with large teams and even larger bud
gets. He began teaching at that time, writing and instructing on-
line classes in digital production.
He moved with his amily to Western Mass to begi n work in archi
tecture, based on the conviction that “green design” would pro
vide the only rational way orward into an uncert ain energy uture
He has studied energy e icient and passive solar design, renew
able energy systems, and building science undamentals, with aneye on “deep energy retroits”. He is currently a project manager
at Coldham&Hartman Architects, working on residential renova
tions and small-scale commercial projects.
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ALEx WILSOn
Sustainable Design as a Way o Thinking
Alex Wilson is president o BuildingGreen, LLC, the Brattleboro,Vermont-based publisher o Environmental Building News (EBN),
GreenSpec Directory, and BuildingGreen Suite, an integrated
online resource on green building. Alex has been the executive
editor o EBN since the newsletter’s ounding in 1992, and he is
coeditor o GreenSpec, which is available in print and as part o
the BuildingGreen Suite. He wrote Your Green Home (New Soci-
ety Publishers, 2006) and is coauthor with Rocky Mountain Insti-
tute sta o Green Development: Integrating Ecology and Real
Estate ( John Wiley & Sons, 1998), and coauthor o ACEEE’s Con-
sumer Guide to Home Energy Savings (9th edition, 2007). He has
also written hundreds o articles on energy conservation, build-
ing technology, and the environment or such magazines as Fine
Homebuilding, Architectural Record, Landscape Architecture,
The Journal o Light Construction, The Construction Speciier,
and Popular Science. He served on the board o the U.S. Green
Building Council rom 2000 through 2005, and currently serves as
a trustee o The Nature Conservancy – Vermont Chapter. When
he’s not researching and writing about green building topics, he
might be ound exploring New England’s lakes and ponds—he
has written a series o our books on quiet-water paddling or
the Appalachian Mountain Club. Alex lives with his wie and two
daughters in Dummerston, Vermont, just outside Brattleboro.