Sustainability in Real Estate

1.00 credits · Undergraduate

This course will introduce students to real estate in the context of global pressures to reduce our collective impact on the planet. Topics covered will include energy, carbon, water, materials and biodiversity footprints of buildings and communities, social handprints, responses to those pressures from governments, NGOs and industry itself, best practices, and leading innovations in real estate. Green building systems will be considered, as well as hard metrics, and the future will be debated.