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The Sustainable Design Institute

Learn how buildings react with the natural environment and the choices available to make that interaction positive. The Sustainable Design Institute (SDI) at the BAC offers fully online, graduate-level courses, which can be taken individually, as part of the sustainable design certificate programs , or as electives in the online Master of Design Studies in Sustainable Design. SDI courses are:

  • Online and asynchronous: Our students and instructors are in all time zones. Students "enter" the virtual classroom according to their own daily schedules. 
  • Instructor-led: By being instructor-led, SDI students are able to engage in give and take with the building industry experts who develop and teach the courses. 
  • Interactive: The interactive nature of the courses exposes students to each other’s ideas and experience as well as to those of the instructor. 
  • Small: Class sizes are limited to 15 persons plus the instructor, making manageable and meaningful discussions possible. 

Extensive Offerings in Sustainable Design

The SD Institute has a breadth of over thirty half-semester courses in subjects ranging from planning communities to designing, constructing and operating individual buildings. Courses include...

We Are Where You Are

The SDI faculty is made up of experienced sustainable design practitioners and includes architects, engineers, research professionals, landscape architects, interior designers, planners, green building consultants and authors.

Selected courses are offered five times a year: twice in the fall semester, twice in the spring semester and once during the summer.

Many courses are approved for continuing education credits by the AIA, the RIBA, the USGBC and the EADC.

Announcements

Registration for Spring 2012 Courses are now open!

 

For information on courses and certificates in Sustainable Design, call +1-617-585-0101, email us at ce@the-bac.edu.

Download the Session I Spring 2012 Sustainable Design Brochure