Promoting Energy Efficiency in Land Use Planning Training
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About the Project
The NB Environmental Trust Fund awarded funds to QUEST Canada and Decodesign to train professionals on promoting energy efficiency through land use planning design and smart growth principles integrated into development projects. This bilingual training is aimed particularly at professionals and officials working with communities, regions, and development projects. Planners, civil engineers, elected officials and administrators, and people working with development projects are invited to join us for this free online training course or watch the recordings from past sessions.
Webinar Session 1
Include design and possible actions while implementing energy-efficiency projects.
Webinar Session 2
Understand how to build communities through design and housing affordability.
Webinar Session 3
Learn how to determine the best design approaches in the creation of energy-efficiency community projects.
Webinar Session 4
Explore ways to integrate concepts for energy-efficiency and sustainable design, introducing the ROI and adopting local planning documents.
Webinar Session 5
Participants of this workshop put newly attained design principles into practice by developing their own designs for a fictive community subdivision project.
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DecoDesign’s purpose is to build sustainability, with design in every project. It’s DecoDesign’s aim to ensure that all development projects are ecological, that all sites are decoded to best determine their green assets, and all design follows intentional sustainable principles.
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This project is made possible by support from the New Brunswick Environmental Trust Fund.
Established in 1990, New Brunswick’s Environmental Trust Fund supports projects focused on protecting, preserving, and enhancing the province’s natural environment.