Green Design: Introduction to Sustainable Water Systems (Based on LEED v4)
This Sustainable Water Systems Training course provides a comprehensive introduction to sustainable water management in buildings, sites, and campuses. Learn how local development impacts watershed systems and explore strategies to reduce water use, improve stormwater management, and enhance sustainability efforts. The course covers key concepts from LEED v4 Water Systems Training, including LEED BD+C v4.0 water efficiency credits, and highlights low-impact design practices that support conservation, recycling, and harvesting. By the end of this course, you’ll understand how sustainable water solutions can enhance environmental, social, and economic benefits within communities.
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Learning Objectives
At the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Discuss both larger watershed and community water systems local sites support
- Explain the impact of local development practices on water systems, local water resource reserves, and water quality
- Identify the cultural, social, economic, and health benefits communities derive from earth’s water systems
- Predict consequences of the conflicts between current development practices and these water systems
- Recognize emerging developments practices that work better with, and have a lower-impact on watershed systems
- Describe credits from version 4.0 of the LEED-BDC rating system that support improved quality, conservation, and management of local storm and ground water resources.
- Discuss low-impact practices that support water conservation, recycling, harvesting, and stormwater management – and help meet LT, SS and WE credits in the LEED-BDC rating system that support these goals
- Recall examples of how these practices provide opportunities to express natural, cultural, social, and aesthetic character of place.
Specs
| Course Level | Fundamental |
| Languages | English |
| Compatibility | Audio, MobileReady |
Key Questions
This course is ideal for architects, engineers, urban planners, sustainability consultants, and professionals working on LEED certification projects who want to enhance their knowledge of sustainable water management.
Does this course cover LEED v4 water-related credits?Yes! This LEED v4 Water Systems Training provides an overview of LEED BD+C water efficiency credits, including strategies for stormwater management, groundwater conservation, and water reuse.
How does this course help with sustainable water management in buildings?The course introduces low-impact development practices such as rainwater harvesting, greywater reuse, and stormwater infiltration, helping professionals design water-efficient buildings that align with LEED v4 standards.
Sample Video Transcript
The goal of this course is to introduce a perspective on development and design practices that helps professionals support communities in managing and sustaining use of local water resources. It is often said when discussing sustainable practices that people need to think globally and act locally. This is especially true when dealing with water resources. Unlike any other resource, water cycles through the earth’s environments at global and continental scales, but each step of that journey serves as a highly valued local resource.
This course will discuss a sustainable approach to water use and management in buildings, sites, and campuses. It systematically introduces key concepts that help practitioners understand the larger watershed and community water systems that local development practices impact, and the cultural, social, economic, and health benefits communities derive from earth’s water systems. This course also introduces the consequences of conflicts between current development practices and these water systems and emerging developments practices that work better with, and have a lower impact on, watershed systems. Brief overviews of LEED-BD+C v4 credits that contribute to improved water quality, reduced water use, management of local stormwater and groundwater resources are included to help orient professionals to practices they may wish to learn more about. Lastly, there are examples of how strategies introduced in the course can contribute to and express the natural, cultural, social,
and aesthetic character of places.
At the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Discuss both larger watershed and community water systems local sites support.
- Explain the impact of local development practices on water systems, local water
resource reserves, and water quality. - Identify the cultural, social, economic, and health benefits communities derive from earth’s water systems.
- Predict consequences of the conflicts between current development practices and these water systems.
- Recognize emerging developments practices that work better with and have a lower impact on watershed systems.
- Describe credits from version 4 of the LEED-BD+C rating system that support. improved quality, conservation, and management of local storm and ground water resources.
- Discuss low-impact practices that support water conservation, recycling, harvesting, and stormwater management – and help meet LT, SS and WE credits in the LEED-BD+C rating system that support these goals.
- Recall examples of how these practices provide opportunities to express natural, cultural, social, and aesthetic character of place.
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