GPRO Fundamentals of Building Green | September 21, 2023

Course Overview

In this GPRO Fundamentals of Building Green online course, you will learn how to see buildings differently and discover strategies to make them efficient, healthy and resilient.

What you'll learn
By the end of this course, participants will learn:

• How reducing building energy will reduce the effects of climate change

• Basic elements of green, high-performance construction and building operations

• Role of trades on high-performance job sites

• Energy-consuming building systems and some strategies to reduce building energy use
  

Who is this for

This course is ideal for anyone who needs a better understanding of high-performance building, including sales or administrative staff in real estate, construction, architecture or engineering, workforce development providers, facilities and operations staff, and college students interested in entering the building or construction industry.

How it works

This class session will be held virtually over zoom. Registration includes a course e-book and the online exam session. Students who pass the exam with an 80% or higher become a GPRO Certificate Holder.

GBCI: 4 CE Credits
AIA CES: 4 LU/HSW Hours

Instructor:

Daniel Eida, Principal & Owner, DE Energy Consultants (DE). 
DE is a New York City based environmental consulting firm that assists Building Owners to comply with LL97 and the New York City Energy Conservation Code (NYCECC). Daniel is an Environmental Engineer with experience in all types of NYC construction, from large-scale ground up commercial, to smaller scale institutional Museums and Libraries. He is a LEED Green Associate and is passionate about the transition to a renewable energy economy.

GPRO is a comprehensive national training and certificate program developed by Urban Green Council. The program teaches the principles of sustainability and trade-specific green construction knowledge to people who build, renovate and maintain buildings.

GPRO courses range from our foundational course, Fundamentals of Building Green, to technical trade-specific classes focused on filling the green-gap between energy efficiency and conventional building and construction knowledge. Working with unions, USGBC chapters, non-profits, workforce development groups and real estate companies throughout North America, we have trained over 16,000 building professionals to date.  

Subsidized Training

NYSERDA fully subsidizes the cost of this training for anyone in one of the below groups who lives or works in New York State. Please reach out to gpro@urbangreencouncil.org for details on how to register.

• Veterans;
• Native Americans;
• Individuals with disabilities;
• Low-income individuals, whose household’s total income is below or at 60% of the State Medium Income, or whose household has been determined eligible for or is receiving assistance through the Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP), Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), or other human service benefit programs;
• Incumbent or unemployed power plant workers;
• Previously incarcerated individuals;
• 16- to 24-year-olds who are enrolled in or have completed a comprehensive work preparedness training program such as those offered by Boards of Cooperative Education Services (BOCES), technical high schools, Conservation Corps, Youthbuild, and AmeriCorps. The training program must include a combination of rigorous clean energy education with hands-on technical training. Eligibility of work preparedness programs under this category will be considered on a case-by-case basis.;
• Homeless individuals;
• Single parents.

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