Green Home Design University Online by Home Architects.com
Rand Soellner Home Architects recently launched the Green Home Design University online on their company's website: www.HomeArchitects.com. The purpose of this "green design university" is to make Green information available to the public.
Online, February 25, 2010 (Newswire.com) - Green information to be studied, learned and tested includes: energy conservation, recycling, natural materials, embodied energy principals, global warming issues, healthy home design, green home analysis, energy efficient solutions, indoor air quality in homes, value engineering efficient home systems, construction practices for a cleaner environment, and selection of home features that reduce the carbon footprint on our planet, among other topics. This Green Home Design University focuses on home design, although the topics discussed have broader applicability. One of the premier features reviewed is Rand Soellner Architect's Green Gauge, which is a very interesting interactive software program he invented. It allows clients, contractors and other architects to "build" their home design projects on the Green Gauge for free, testing the "greenness" of the materials and systems selected. A free report is provided at the conclusion of that particular study, for your project files.
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The term "university" in this context refers to an online course of study; it is not a bricks and mortar physical place. It is a virtual educational center, online. There are about 20 modules or webpages (and growing), each on a different subject having to do with energy conservation or governmental programs like Energy Star, or natural materials home architecture, and related subjects. This Green Home Design University has a series of simple questions at the bottom of each webpage of information, typically about 3 questions, so the demands are not great on one's time. The answers are below the questions, so everyone attending this Green Home Design University are on the honor system. It's all about gaining knowledge and green understanding. This is not an accredited university or course of study. The purposes are informational for home design, for entertainment, social and environmental responsibility.
Where to go to find the Green Design University:
Click here to be taken to the Green Home Design University starting page: Green Home Design University .
Green Home Design University Certificate of Green Understanding:
When you have read all of the modules and successfully answered all of the questions, you can printout a handsome Certificate of Green Understanding suitable for framing and hanging on your wall, as testimony to taking this course of environmental & architectural studies at the Green Home Design University. This is the "gold star" that website visitors can earn and proudly display.
Simple and easy online course of study at the Green Home Design University:
Each study module and questionnaire takes about 10 to 15 minutes. The entire course of study might take 2-1/2 to 4 hours or so, depending on your familiarity with the subject matter. The beauty of it is that you can stop wherever you want and return later as you wish.
Cost of taking the Green Course at the Green Home Design University:
Zero. Zip. Nada. Nothing. Why? The Rand Soellner Architect company wants to help provide useful information for clients, contractors, other architects and designers and the public in general. Why? As part of their self-imposed obligation as architects, members of the American Institute of Architects, and members of the design community to help improve the situation in which our country and world finds itself. It's all about environmental responsibility and energy conservation in home design. Also, you just might find lowered utility bills as a benefit of using some of these green principles.
About Rand Soellner Architect: this home architects design firm specializes as custom home architects, timber frame architects, post and beam architects and green home architects. Soellner's home designs are featured in books and magazines throughout the USA and the world. Recently, 3 of his rustic-elegant home designs were included in a thick, full-color coffee table book along with several other world-famous home architects, about the best mountain home architects and best homes in the world in scenic locations. This was called: House With A View, published by Images Publishing, available through Amazon.com.
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