Module V: Built Environment and Sustainability

Professors:

  • Jennifer Smith, Trinidad and Tobago Institute of Architects (TTIA)
  • Mr. Martyn Joab, Architect, Trinidad and Tobago
  • Dr. Asad Mohammed, Director of blue Space
  • Mr. Bas van der Westerlo, Cradle to Cradle Consultant

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


Dr. Asad Mohammed
Director of blueSpace

Built Heritage: Preservation learning from and adapting old models for current and future sustainability

Presentation

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