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This CPD aims to help architects:

- Understand the major factors that make healthcare architecture different from other building types, and the implications of these differences on green building.
- Address the relationship between “green” and “healthy” as it pertains to healthcare facilities.
- Determine driving factors other than environmental sustainability that are relevant to healthcare facility design.
- Understand the differing needs between patients, families, administrators and staff.
- Understand the main contributing factors to indoor environmental quality in healthcare buildings, and why these might not be the same as for other building types.
- Determine how healthcare facilities are uniquely affected by lighting design, especially for aging and other visually challenged populations.
- Describe best practices in acoustical design for healthcare facilities.
- Apply concepts associated with the biophilia hypothesis to healthcare.
- Understand the major contributors to air quality in hospitals.
- Determine the differences between air quality in healthcare facilities and other building types.

This CPD aims to help architects:

- Identify a truly sustainable firm from inside to outside and use their knowledge to know how to successfully run a sustainable design business, not just what a sustainable design firm looks like.
- Comprehend codes, rules, standards that agencies create, LEED guidelines, state, federal and local policies. Students will have knowledge that there ARE sustainable guidelines that are mandated by public policy in state and local government.
- Recognise the current ups/downs of the implementation of new software based on the process of change in mindset of a group of people.
- Concretely understand AIA Document B214 – 2007 and AIA Integrated Project Delivery and be able to use them effectively during designing and construction projects.
- Have confidence in information sharing and a collaborative approach to educating ourselves and each other in order to market ourselves and firms.
- Understand the liability and responsibility of an architect in not only the architecture/design business but in sustainable design and who holds - should hold - the responsibilities.
- Be effective leaders and effectively guide a team into change that work s together well.
- Know an architect’s role as a keystone species or a supporting member in the industry and ultimately the sustainability movement.

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This CPD aims:

- To state course requirements and to begin our exploration of sustainability and design.
- To give you new thinking tools for understanding long-term, dynamic, complex systems and how this understanding can help sustainable design.
- To introduce you to the ideas of design patterns and pattern languages; to explore how pattern languages could be used to network design professionals in common efforts across geographic scales; to explore the geometry of sustainable, natural, living systems.
- To increase the skill with which you bring collaboration and integrated-design processes into your work.
- To increase your ability to incorporate services provided by nature when designing and engineering. To increase your ability to design and engineer for the efficient provision of desired services; to increase your familiarity with the scope and scale of the climate-change problem; and to increase
your understanding of the effectiveness of strategies to address this problem.
- To provide thinking tools to help you assess the life cycles of materials and products, and their use in the built environment.
- To provide you with opportunities to make up for shortfalls in previous assignments.
- To invite you to integrate ideas from the course into a real-world setting.
- To provide students with ideas and perspectives for thinking about environmental sustainability.
- To provide a better understanding of some key environmental issues related to design and construction.