Module II: Built Environment and Sustainability

Professors:

Content:

  • Social education and resettlement Programs in Medellin

  • Towards zero energy buildings

  • Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of sustainable measures on new construction as well as the existing housing stock, or retrofitting the existing housing stock

  • Green buildings, assessing cost and cost effectiveness

  • Buildings energy efficiency

  • Urban Island effect

  • Policy making: regulatory and voluntary mechanisms

  • Closed Looped Cycle Production in the Americas (CLCPA) Program -- manufacturing and use of sustainable building materials, the need to develop building envelop performance indicators, how to incorporate C2C principles in infrastructural projects and planning activities

Presentations


Glenroy Blanchette
CFBC/Geography & Disaster Risk Management Specialist
Flood Hazard, Hydrological cycle, freshwater Supply, and Urbanism 
Presentation

Ms Ghanja O’Flaherty
Solid Waste Management Corporation
Urban Waste Management – E-Waste and Waste Management
Presentation

Linh Anh Cat, Rhea Dorris, Charlene Komondy, Sam Riccio and Vassany Gumbs, Kelso Clarke, Ariela Wilkinson
SHADEHOUSE STEPS
Presentation