Climate Literacy: Building Design

The Climate Literacy: Building Design pilot course provides building design professionals with the opportunity to learn about the future of building performance. This full-day, in-person course will equip design professionals with the technical literacy to interpret climate data, the practical skills to design for resilience and carbon reduction, and the economic fluency to justify these interventions to clients.

Why Participate in Climate Literacy Building Design Training?

• Improve your climate science fundamentals: understand how shifting baseline and historical data is no longer predictive and how localized risks (urban heat island effect, precipitation intensity and wildfires are changing the way buildings are designed.
• Learn about defensive and resilient design: how do we ensure assets remain safe, insurable and functional as hazards increase.
• Build knowledge and skills to reduce greenhouse gas emissions: demystify the “Net Zero” buzzwords and look at the physics of carbon (operational vs embodied carbon, life cycle assessment fundamentals, materials selection and electrification)
• Prove the business case: beyond technical solutions, learn about the processes, policy and economic conditions that support successful project.

Who Participate in Deep Retrofits Training?

• Design professionals (modellers, engineers, architects)
• Retrofit and general contractors
• Building managers and Project managers, and
• Consulting professionals advancing retrofit work.

Location: The PIER – 1209 Marginal Road, Halifax NS, B3H 4PH (The Classroom)

Light breakfast snacks and lunch will be provided.