Energy-Saving HVAC Tips for Green Buildings

In Energy-Saving HVAC Tips for Green Buildings, you'll learn ...

• The importance of bio-climatic/solar passive building design, building siting, day-lighting and other architectural elements for minimizing HVAC loads
• The effect of energy-efficient lighting and appliances on HVAC systems
• Principles of heat transfer and the parameters affecting the selection of energy-efficient building envelope materials for roof, walls, glazing, and insulation
• Criteria for selecting appropriate refrigerants and cooling systems for your application - package units, ductless split, central chiller systems, pumps, and cooling towers

Overview

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Credit: 5 PDH

Length: 84 pages

Buildings as they are designed and used today symbolize unrestrained consumption of energy and other natural resources with its consequent negative environmental impact.

Green HVAC design means improving a facility's indoor air quality (IAQ) and energy consumption as much as possible. Like many other appliances, the cost of your indoor comfort system includes not only its initial price but also the ongoing costs of operation and maintenance. This means that the cooling and heating equipment and controls that you select today will continue to impact your finances for as long as you occupy the building. That's why investing in a high-efficiency comfort system and maintaining your comfort system makes sense.

This course discusses some of the proven energy efficiency HVAC concepts for new building projects. The course focuses on the design of energy-efficient building architecture, building construction materials, HVAC equipment design considerations, energy, refrigerants, and construction practices. Design engineers, consulting engineers, architects, realtors, building owners, facility managers, interior designers, landscape architects, construction managers, and educators will benefit from this course.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Explain the importance of bioclimatic and passive-solar building design, building siting, daylighting, and other architectural elements in minimizing HVAC loads.
• Apply heat-transfer principles to the selection of energy-efficient building-envelope materials for roofs, walls, glazing, and insulation.
• Describe the effect of energy-efficient lighting and appliances on HVAC systems.
• Select an appropriate cooling-system type based on application criteria, including packaged systems, ductless split HVAC systems, and chillers.
• Explain the impact of CFC compounds on ozone depletion and the use of environmentally preferable refrigerants.
• Describe cooling-tower operating principles and the importance of cooling-water treatment.
• Apply selection criteria to chilled-water and condenser-water pumps, variable-speed pumping, chilled-water distribution schemes, piping, and heat-recovery systems.

Certificate of Completion

You will be able to immediately print a certificate of completion after passing a multiple-choice quiz consisting of 25 questions. PDH credits are not awarded until the course is completed and quiz is passed.