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ALBION DISTRICT LIBRARY BY PERKINS + WILL IS A 2018 COTE TOP TEN RECIPIENT. IMAGE: DOUBLESPACE PHOTOGRAPHY

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The Committee on the Environment (COTE®) is an AIA Knowledge Community working for architects, allied professionals, and the public to achieve climate action and climate justice through design. We believe that design excellence is the foundation of a healthy, sustainable, and equitable future. Our work promotes design strategies that empower all AIA members to realize the best social and environmental outcomes with the clients and the communities they serve.

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Online Education: Stanford’s Building Energy Efficiency Course

By April Ovens posted 02-19-2020 12:07 PM

  

Building energy efficiency (BEE) is a rapidly expanding global industry critical to developing affordable, reliable, and low-carbon energy systems. Stanford University has developed a new online course (Building Energy Efficiency: Technology, Policy & Finance XEIET203) that explores the fundamentals of BEE expansion through an integrated approach, focusing on the interplay of technology, policy and finance and the market, behavioral, and institutional barriers that often hinder its uptake. The course also examines next frontiers of BEE including “data-driven” intelligent efficiency, building decarbonization, the role of BEE in the changing grid, and BEE as a tool in international climate efforts. The course instructors are Dian Grueneich, one of the world’s leading experts on energy efficiency, and Steve Comello with the Stanford Graduate School of Business. It includes a mixture of lectures, mini case studies, and discussions with experts, including former DOE Secretary Dr. Steve Chu. The course offers 6.5 AIA LU/HSW credits. (To secure AIA credits after course completion, forward the Stanford digital record of completion (an email), with your name and AIA number to connie@newbuildings.org; NBI will provide information to AIA.) To learn more and enroll: bee.stanford.edu.

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