AcornVac
Face-to-Face Course - Vacuum Plumbing and a Sustainable Future
AIA Course number: IAC22A
USGBC Course ID:
090006359
Credits:
1 AIA/CES LU/HSW/SD Hour
1 GBCI CE Hour for LEED
Professionals
This Continuing Education course offers LUs and CEUs for architects, LEED professionals, interior designers, engineers, product manufacturers, and anyone else in the A/E community seeking education units.
During this one hour Lunch and Learn session, typically instructed at your firm, design professionals will discover how buildings impact water consumption and waste, and in turn, how water usage impacts energy consumption. The course explores various water-saving strategies with an emphasis on plumbing technologies, while comparing vacuum and standard plumbing and the associated water waste and cost savings. Relevant LEED credits are also reviewed.
Learning Objectives:
1. Discuss the many ways to protect and conserve
water in public or private buildings.
2. Explain how vacuum plumbing systems
work and indentify the key components for an efficient operation.
3. Compare
the performance of vacuum plumbing systems with gravity plumbing systems in
terms of sustainability, health and safety, cost, design and construction
flexibility.
4. Calculate the dramatic water savings and related environmental
benefits of vacuum plumbing systems.
5. Discuss the application of vacuum
plumbing systems as related to LEED certification.
Registration for the course can be found on GreenCE at www.greence.com.
