High Performance Green Building Envelopes Seminar
DISCLAIMER
Before purchasing, review the rules of your licensing or certifying entity. It is your responsibility to confirm this course meets your CE requirements. See the credit tab on the course page for details.
What’s Included: Full webinar recording, written course materials, expert instruction, a mandatory quiz, and a certificate upon completion.
Deliverability Timeline: All courses are generally available within 1-2 weeks after the live presentation.
CE Credits: AIA and/or LA/CES accreditation is available by request for courses recorded prior to March 11, 2026. All courses after that date include those accreditations by default, if applicable. With these accreditations, our courses qualify for credit in nearly all states for engineers, surveyors, architects, and landscape architects.
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Agenda
Registration: 8:00 – 8:30 am
Morning Session: 8:30 am – 12:15 pm
Lunch (On your own): 12:15 – 1:15 pm
Afternoon Session: 1:15 – 4:00 pm
Introduction to Green Infrastructure Practices for the Building Envelope
Goals of Green Infrastructure
Green infrastructure practices: definitions and benefits
Typical design and components: vegetated green roofs, living walls, stormwater planters
plants, engineered soils, drainage components and accessories
Monetizing the Benefits of Green Infrastructure for the
Building Envelope – Part 1
Storm Water Management
Implications of new site run-off reduction standards
Green infrastructure applications leading to measurable and
valuable stormwater management
Energy conservation and operational spend reduction
Monetizing the Benefits of Green Infrastructure for the
Building Envelope – Part 2
Urban ecological, environmental and commercial value of green infrastructure
Environmental mitigation: pollution control, CO2 sequestration, urban heating/cooling
Urban agriculture, rooftop farming
Improved marketability, increased value and profitability of real estate
The Reversal of All Gains: Failures and Remediation
Case studies of vegetated green roof and living wall failures
Points of failure: design, installation, maintenance
Strategies to avoid failure: effective design, installation and maintenance practices
The Social and Human Element
The Biophilic Effect
Urban nature and human health, development and well-being
Design considerations for incorporation of green infrastructure to
facilitate human engagement
Healthcare, educational municipal facilities
Proving Asset Value Gains, Part 1
The value of Certification (LEED, SITES, etc.)
Proving value creation
Proving Asset Value Gains, Part 2
Returns on investment
ROI case studies:
Stormwater management, energy conservation & increased real estate assessment
Exercise: The Green Infrastructure Scorecard
Example: Addition of vegetated green roof to an existing building
Credits
Professional Engineers
6.0 PDHs
Architects
6.0 HSW Contact Hours
6.0 AIA HSW Learning Units
Landscape Architects
6.0 HSW Continuing Ed. Hours
6.0 LA/CES HSW PDHs
Contractors
Non-Credit Continuing Ed.
Continuing Education Credit Information
This seminar is open to the public and offers 6.0 PDHs to professional engineers and 6.0 HSW contact/CE hours to architects in all states, and 6.0 HSW continuing education hours to landscape architects in Illinois. Educators and courses are not subject to pre-approval in Illinois.
This seminar is approved by the American Institute of Architects for 6.0 HSW Learning Units (Sponsor No. J885) and the Landscape Architecture Continuing Education System for 6.0 HSW PDHs. Only full attendance can be reported to the AIA/CES and the LA/CES.
Landscape architects seeking continuing education credit in other states will be able to apply the hours earned at this seminar in most cases. Refer to specific state rules to determine eligibility.
HalfMoon Education is an approved continuing education sponsor for engineers in Florida, Indiana (License No. CE21700059), Maryland, New Jersey (Approval No. 24GP00000700), North Carolina, and North Dakota. HalfMoon Education is deemed an approved continuing education sponsor for New York architects and landscape architects.
This seminar offers a non-credit continuing education opportunity to construction contracts. It has not been approved by any contractor licensing board of continuing education credit.
Speakers
Joanne Rodriguez
GreenStructure, Ltd.GreenStructure, Ltd.
Ms. Rodriguez is a LEED AP, CRPL climate leader, certified permaculture practitioner and green infrastructure specialist. With over 30 years experience in the building products industry, she is the founder of GreenStructures, a multidisciplinary environmental consulting firm. Her efforts are concentrated in the development of training and public outreach in the areas of climate mitigation, resiliency and green infrastructure practices. Former director of sustainability for Tremco Roofing, Ms. Rodriguez has provided leadership on many high-profile green roof projects across North America. Her recent speaking engagements include keynote speaker The Virtual Green Roof & Wall Summit, the National Roofing Contractor Association sustainability webinar series and the Green Infrastructure Foundation Seattle Design Charette.
Mary Ann Uhlmann
Founder of the Urban Horticulture Consulting, LLC
Ms. Uhlmann is an environmental horticulturist, accredited green roof professional, certified permaculture practitioner and certified sustainable landscape professional. Her firm, Urban Horticulture Consulting, provides green infrastructure planning, training, and asset management. Over the past 19 years, she has been a passionate advocate for green infrastructure education and policy making. Based in Marietta, Georgia, her projects include green roof design, assessments and remediation, maintenance protocol development, FLL compliance testing and the development of public outreach programs. Recent speaking engagements include The Little Rock Sustainability Conference, P80 Global Summit, and The Green Infrastructure Foundation Seattle Design Charette.