Trainings and Workshops

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The YRG Training Experience

YRG sustainability trainings and workshops are designed to be dynamic, engaging, relevant and effective. Through anywhere from one-hour to multiple-day sessions, YRG works with organizations and individuals to ensure they have the information and tools they are looking for, and that they are inspired to use them.

 

YRG Trainers: Education from Practitioners and Experts

YRG sustainability provides technical and strategic sustainability consulting services to support a high level of performance, value and quality in the built environment and within businesses and organizations. Our experiences as consultants provide the real-life perspectives, stories, lessons learned and knowledge that are the backbone to our education and training.

YRG Education Offerings

YRG provides highly interactive and effective private trainings for private firms, corporate executives and employees, universities, organizations, government entities, and more.  YRG also presents public trainings at conferences and events all over the world for various groups and individuals.

YRG training topic areas include:

• Green Associate and LEED AP exam preparation
• Sustainability and LEED 101
• Current trends in sustainability / green building / LEED  (can include a focus on specific project types including schools, residential, commercial, interiors, new construction, infrastructure, etc.)
• Costs and benefits of green buildings
• Strategies and technologies for green building and operations
• Sustainable operations and maintenance of existing buildings
• Integrated project delivery
• How to effectively manage a LEED / green building project
• Green building / LEED for building portfolios (including LEED Volume overview)
• Modeling and analysis tools for green building (energy, daylight, cost-benefit, etc.)
• Green building / sustainability policy and legislation
• Green building from an international perspective: rating systems, challenges, trends, etc. 
• Case studies and lessons learned from the field
• Corporate sustainability: policies, knowledge management, programs, reporting, staff engagement and more
• Carbon measurement and management
• Supply chain and product sustainability
• Personal sustainability

Courses approved for GBCI CE hours for LEED Professionals: 

• LEED Project Management
• Introduction to LEED Project Management
• Greening Existing Buildings: Policies and Practices

 

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For more information about YRG trainings and presentations or to book a training, contact:

Brittany Grech

bgrech@yrgsustainability.com

(347) 843-3085

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