Plastics and Sustainable Building Course

Plastics and Sustainable Building.

Summary

This self-paced E-learning course aims to show the potentials for sustainable chemistry in the construction sector and to answer the following questions:

>    How can plastics be used in a sustainable way in buildings?

>    What obstacles are there and how can they be overcome?

>    Which steps need to be followed, under consideration of regional differences?

>    What are recommendations for the areas of research, sustainable innovation, capacity building and policy.

It takes approximately 10 hours to complete all 5 modules.

Who is this course for?

Anyone interested in the role of plastics in sustainable building and living. For example, policy makers, planners, or architects. The course is written on an academic level and provides the learner with knowledge to create a strategy on where it does and where it does not make sense to use plastics in construction.

What will you learn?

After completing the course, you will be able to:

>    Describe how sustainable chemistry can make buildings sustainable.

>    Estimate the hidden costs in a building’s life cycle.

>    Create sustainable solutions for developing countries based on resilient buildings utilising local materials.

>    Draft a strategy to substitutes hazardous additives or to keep exposures and releases as low as possible.

>    Describe how to drive construction products towards sustainability in the sense of the Sustainable Development Goals.

>    List some of the most relevant innovations and potentials for sustainable chemistry in the area of building, living and plastics.

>    Identify strategies to save energy and to avoid greenhouse gas emissions.

>    Explain what recycling means for buildings and how the consumption of resources in the building industry can be reduced.

>    Create strategies to address the growing demand for energy-efficient houses. For example through better insulation materials, but also new solutions, like ‘cool roof’ and ‘phase change walls’.

Topic Overview

The topic is structured into five modules:

>    1.      Introduction

>    2.      Urbanisation, affordable housing, resilience

>    3.      Protecting Human Health and the environment.

>    4.      Resource Demand and Recycling

>    5.      Summary, Outlook and Recommendations.

Course certificate

For each completed module, a badge will be issued. Upon completion of the course, you will receive a certificate.

Course Developer

International Sustainable Chemistry Collaborative Centre (ISC3)

Jan Patrick Paul (jan.patrick.paul@gmail.com) (E-learning)

Carpus + Partner AG (Slides)

Contact Person

Jens Krol (jens.krol@isc3.org)

License

All content is published under the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.