Advise owners and project teams on sustainable building strategy — rating systems, materials, energy/water measures, and the business case.
What you’ll learn
- Navigate major rating systems and standards at advisory level (LEED, ENERGY STAR, WELL, Passive House concepts)
- Advise on energy, water, materials, and IEQ strategies by project type
- Build the financial case: costs, savings, incentives, and asset value
- Guide a project team through green requirements without derailing schedule
- Package and sell consulting engagements
Lessons
Green Building Consultant Course — Lesson 1: The green building landscape and your advisory role
Green Building Consultant Course — Lesson 2: Energy strategy: the core of every green project
Covers the load-reduction-first hierarchy (envelope, then systems, then renewables), passive design concepts (orientation, shading, daylight), high-performance HVAC and electrification trends, energy modeling at advisory level (what models can and can’t tell you), and benchmarking existing buildings. You’ll practice building an energy strategy memo for a sample project. Building an energy strategy, in orderReduce the load […]
Green Building Consultant Course — Lesson 3: Water, materials, and indoor environmental quality
Water: fixture efficiency, irrigation and landscape strategy, and rainwater/greywater concept-level options. Materials: embodied carbon awareness, EPDs and HPDs at reading level, local/recycled-content strategies, and construction waste management. IEQ: ventilation and filtration, low-VOC specification, daylight and acoustic basics — and why IEQ often sells projects that energy savings alone can’t. Scoping water, materials and indoor qualityA […]
Green Building Consultant Course — Lesson 4: Certifications and compliance pathways
How to guide a client through ‘should we certify?’: certification cost-benefit by project type, documentation burden realism, the LEED process map (registration to review), ENERGY STAR for existing buildings, and green lease/ESG reporting drivers from institutional owners. Covers when certification adds value vs. when ‘built-to’ standards without the plaque is the right call. Guiding the […]
Green Building Consultant Course — Lesson 5: The business case and incentives
The money lesson: cost-premium realism by measure (most green strategies cost far less than clients fear), operating savings, utility and government incentive navigation (how to find current programs — these change, so we teach the search method, not a static list), tax deduction awareness (179D-style concepts), insurance and asset-value arguments, and tenant demand data framing. […]
Green Building Consultant Course — Lesson 6: Running engagements and selling the service
Covers the consulting delivery models — charrette facilitation, owner’s advisor, certification management — scoping and pricing engagements, the deliverables clients value (strategy memos, measure matrices, decision support at design milestones), and keeping green requirements alive through value engineering. Ends with positioning and the discovery call that converts. Certificate of Completion included. From discovery call to […]