Continuing Education

Continuing Education Units (CEUs) will be available for Educational Sessions,Offsite Education Sessions, LEED Workshops, Green Building Tours, and Post Conference Seminars. USGBC is a registered educational program provider for AIA/CES, ASID/IIDA, BOMI and IFMA

Instructions

This year attendance to educational sessions will be recorded through name badge scanning and RFID. The scanning captures your attendance, and will quickly be loaded to an on-site training certificate database. The sign-in period begins 30 minutes before each session and ends 30 minutes after each session. You will not be able to scan into two sessions at once, if you do, the system will only record the second session.

If you have any questions about CEUs onsite, please go to any of the information booths where representatives will be able to assist you.

American Institute of Architects (AIA)

Qualification: AIA/CES credit is available for Educational Sessions, Offsite Education Sessions, LEED Workshops, Green Building Tours, and Post Conference Seminars. If you provided your AIA number during registration, simply make sure your badge gets scanned when you arrive at each session. The session number and the number of Learning Units (LUs) will then be recorded in an electronic database. The number of LUS per session is equal to its length, so a one and a half hour session is equal to one LU. If you did not provide your AIA number during registration, please go to our registration booths and request that your AIA number be added to your file before attending any sessions. By doing so, we can ensure that your sessions are reported correctly an in a timely manner to AIA/CES.

Submission: The U.S. Green Building Council will automatically submit your sessions and LUs accumulated to AIA. You can print a certificate of your session attendance for your records after the confrenence in case of any discrepancies on your transcript.

American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA)

Qualification: The U.S. Green Building Council is registered with the American Society of Landscape Architects as a provider for the Continuing Professionals Education (CPE) programs for the landscape architects for Greenbuild 2008. Please note the Continuing Education requirements vary for licensure depending on state regulations. To find out your state’s requirements visit: http://www.asla.org/members/govtaffairs/licensure/pdf/CE.pdf

Submission: To earn continuing professional development credits, print your Greenbuild 2008 CEU certificate, list that you attended Greenbuild 2008, and submit as instructed by ASLA.

Building Owners and Managers Institute (BOMI)

Qualification: Greenbuild 2008 qualifies fro BOMI Institute Continuing Professional Development (CPD) credit for RPA, FMA, and/or SMA graduates

Submission: To earn continuing professional development credits, print your Greenbuild 2008 CEU certificate, attach it to your CPD Verification Form, list that you attended Greenbuild 2008, and submit as instructed.

CoreNet Global

Qualification: CoreNet Global will award 16 Continuing Professional Development credits toward MCR Designation Renewal registrants who attend all three days of Greenbuild 2008.

Submission: To earn continuing professional development credits, print your Greenbuild 2007 CEU certificate, attach it to your MCR Designation Renewal Application Form and list that you attended Greenbuild 2008.

Construction Specifications Institute (CSI)

Qualification: Construction Specifications Institute (CSI) Continuing Education Credits are available for Educational Sessions, LEED Workshops, Tours, and Post Conference Seminar. The Greenbuild 2008 CEU Certificate will record the number of CEU hours of instruction for each session. The number of CEU hours per session is proportional to its length. You will need ten instructional contact hours to obtain 1 CEU. For example, a 90 minute Greenbuild Educational Session= .15CEUs.

Submission: Your information will be automatically submitted to the Construction Specifications Institute (CSI) Construction Education Network (CEN) where it will be stored electronically. To access your transcript, visit http://education.csinet.org and register as a Learner using the same email address as you used for your Greenbuild 2008 registration.

Technical support for the CSI CEN is available by calling 888-861-6067 or by emailing cen@csinet.org.

International Facility Management Association (IFMA)

Qualification: IFMA will award 20 maintenance points to a Certified Facility Manager (CFM) and 10 maintenance points to a Facility Management Professional (FMP) who attends all three days of Greenbuild 2008.

Submission: To earn the maintenance points, print your Greenbuild 2008 CEU certificate, place it in your mainte¬nance record, and list that you attended Greenbuild 2008.

International Interior Design Association (IIDA)

Continuing Education in Interior Design is coordinated through the Interior Design Continuing Education Council (IDCEC). Core Member Organizations are: American Society of Interior Designers (ASID), Interior Designers of Canada (IDC), Interior Design Educators Council (IDEC), International Interior Design Association (IIDA), and National Kitchen & Bath Association (NKBA). The stated pur¬pose of IDCEC is to promote life long learning for the interior designer, to serve as a central entity for the sharing of CEU information, accreditation, and registration, and to provide strategic planning for CEU programming and activity.

Qualification: Continuing Education Units are avail¬able for the above stated organizations for Educational Sessions, LEED Workshops, Green Building Tours, and Post Conference Seminars.

Submission: To receive credit from IIDA you must fill out an official NCIDQ Participant Form with the sessions you attended, and attach the Greenbuild 2008 CEU certificate showing which sessions you attended. CEU registration forms must be submitted to the National Council for Interior Design Qualification (NCIDQ) with a check for ($12 USD/ $12 CAN) within 30 days upon completion of the conference. Each participant receives a record of course participation from NCIDQ to verify CEU registration. Failure to do so may result in participants not receiving CEU credit through NCIDQ.