Green Advantage professional training offered | Environment

Pinellas County Extension, in partnership with the University of Florida’s Program for Resource Efficient Communities, will offer Green Advantage professional training on Thursday, Feb. 23, from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Pinellas County Extension.

The 8-hour course will provide professionals with an overview of key provisions in the Florida Building Code that affect building performance, introduce the concept of building as a system and examine environmental building failures, resulting from design and construction techniques.

Participants will receive an overview of green building certification standards adopted by the U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Green Building Council, National Association of Home Builders and the Florida Green Building Coalition.

For more information please contact the course instructor, Craig Miller at (352) 392-5684. To learn more about the 2012 Energy Efficiency and Conservation Building Education Program, upcoming events, or to register for continuing education courses, visit www.buildgreen.ufl.edu/cecampus.htm.

The Program for Resource Efficient Communities was established in 2004 to provide a collaborative and multidisciplinary approach to build more sustainable and resource efficient communities in Florida. For more information visit www.buildgreen.ufl.edu.

Pinellas County Extension is a partnership between Pinellas County government and the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences as part of a nationwide network of land grant universities. The University of Florida is an equal access/equal opportunity institution.

The mission of Pinellas County Extension is to provide research-based knowledge and education programs enabling people to make practical decisions to improve their quality of life and the world around them. Education focuses on sustainable living, lawn and garden, families and consumers, and 4-H youth development.

Pinellas County Extension offers programming at the Extension office, 12520 Ulmerton Road, Largo, (727) 582-2100; at the Brooker Creek Preserve Environmental Education Center, 3940 Keystone Road, Tarpon Springs, (727) 453-6800 and at the Weedon Island Preserve Cultural and Natural History Center, 1800 Weedon Drive N.E., St. Petersburg, (727) 453-6500. For more information, visit www.pinellascountyextension.org and find Pinellas Extension on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

Pinellas County complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act. If you are a person with a disability who needs any accommodation in order to participate in this class you are entitled, at no cost to you, to the provision of certain assistance. At least seven days prior to the class, please contact the Office of Human Rights, 400 S. Fort Harrison Ave., Suite 500, Clearwater, FL 33756, (727) 464-4062 (Voice/TDD).