Green Building

Course Name: Green Building

Duration: 5 Days

Course Code: L22108

Location:  Nation Wide

Awarding Body: FETAC Level 5

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This course is designed to provide learners with an understanding of the principals, practices and relevance of environmentally sustainable building and construction. It will enable learners to become more informed homeowners, and to be more aware of the choices available to them when designing or constructing a new house, as well as how those choices can best be used for both the benefit of the environment and of their own health.

Entry Requirements
Level 4 Certificate, Leaving Certificate or equivalent qualifications and / or relevant life and work experiences.
Delivery

Hughes delivers our training program through having fun, experiential learning, practical exercises and group participation. Along side our highly experience trainers, we aim to develop course material with appropriate educational notes and case study examples ensuring all learning outcomes are met. Resulting in participants having a beneficial learning experience during and after our course.

Course Content

This course has 6 units in total.

  • Unit 1 Green Building in Perspective
  • Unit 2 The Elements of a Green House
  • Unit 3 Choosing Your Materials
  • Unit 4 Designing for Energy Efficiency
  • Unit 5 Different Approaches to meeting Housing Need
  • Unit 6 Approaching Design
  • Unit 7 Health & Safety
  • Unit 8 Practical EcoBuilding
Aims

On completion of this course learners will have developed an awareness of the environmental problems arising from conventional construction practices. They will be familiar with the principals and practices of green building. The learner will understand how energy consumption in all stages of a building’s lifecycle can be minimized.
They will also acquire the knowledge to be able to communicate their ideas to an architect and become a more informed participant in the process of the design of their own home.

Progression Route

Major Award FETAC level 5


Assessment

Project               50%
Assignment 1    30%
Assignment 2    20%