In this 45-hour online course, Technology in Mass Timber Design and Construction, you’ll explore mass timber design and construction principles, including biophilic design, industrialized construction methods, and Building Information Modeling (BIM). Learn to analyze designs, estimate material costs, and manage project stages and team dynamics for successful outcomes. This course is ideal for professionals in architecture, engineering, design, BIM, cost estimating, or project management, equipping you to integrate modular and prefabricated elements into sustainable designs. Complete this course and prerequisite courses—Mass Timber Products and Systems and Sustainable Mass Timber Construction—to earn SAIT’s Sustainable Mass Timber Construction and Design Certificate of Completion. Receive a SAITMicro digital badge if you meet the earning criteria for this microcredential.
The course introduces the fundamental concepts of electrical underground distribution systems and design. Based on previous working experience and education, and knowledge from the first two courses in the microcredential: Fundamentals of Distribution Design and Overhead Distribution Design, it provides an overview of electrical underground distribution systems and develops concepts of underground distribution design. Topics include components, design considerations, standards, cables, cable pull calculations, vaults, trenches, transformers, grounding, loads (residential, commercial, industrial), applications, and safety and economical considerations. Software tools will be used for modeling and simulation throughout this course.
Electric vehicles are a great option for reducing the carbon footprint of vehicles. But where do you start? If you’re a consumer or someone in retail automotive sales who is interested in EVs, this microcredential is a good place to start. In this microcredential, you will examine the positive aspects of running an EV and gain an understanding of the general maintenance involved with an EV.
The intended audience is anyone working in the retail automotive sector such as car dealerships, parts stores, and automotive repair shops. The intended audience also recognizes the need for consumer education, therefore, this microcredential is for consumers interested in learning about EVs and their impact.
This course covers how refinishing products affect the environment and how to minimize those effects. Course content includes safe handling, storage, and disposal methods of products containing volatile organic compounds (VOC) as regulated by GVRD Automotive Refinishing Emission Regulation Bylaw No. 1296, 2019 and GVRD Air Quality Management Bylaw No. 1086, 2008.
Venturing into data analysis can be daunting. However, much of the analysis required for agriculture operations may be less complex. For example, regression analysis can provide insight into production levels based on single focus items such as rainfall for the year. However, analyzing combinations of factors such as rainfall, soil condition, hours of sunlight, seed density and fertilizer application rates requires machine learning (ML)/AI to provide a more in-depth picture of what is happening. This microcredential introduces participants to analyzing data and format approaches, algorithms for decision-making, and interpreting results of compiled data.
The ideal learner will be looking to adopt sustainable farming practices using data and already be employed in the farming industry, either as an employee or owner. It is expected that the learner will have at least basic digital skills. The learners will complete the modules at their own pace. Therefore, this microcredential has been developed fully online.
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The Whole-Building Life Cycle Assessment Professional microcredential provides the knowledge and skills needed to effectively use LCA in design decisions for works of construction. Developed in partnership with the Athena Sustainable Materials Institute, this microcredential consists of four courses delivered online by experienced LCA professionals through a combination of self-paced work and virtual live lectures.
Learners will gain foundational knowledge of life cycle thinking, embodied carbon, and LCA standards and methods that they will apply as they conduct whole-building LCAs and calculate the carbon impact of building materials using Athena’s free LCA software. Learners will complete the microcredential with a final project where they will undertake a thorough whole-building LCA and produce a comprehensive report in compliance with the national guidelines on whole-building LCA.
Water and wildlife are two of Canada’s most precious resources. It is important to not only understand the ecology of each but also to manage them. This microcredential will take you through various scenarios to develop tools and techniques for dealing with wildlife. You’ll learn fundamental field skills in wildlife management and the ethics and species involved.
Target audience is anyone wanting to enter the natural resource/environmental tourism sector or supplement their current training. Technicians who work in northern mines, or for environmental consulting companies, and do field sample collection, would benefit from understanding wildlife management techniques. The intended learners are Indigenous youth and adults. The earner of this microcredential will be able to describe the ecological land classification system ecology of land associated with lake ecosystems and understand resource legislation relevant to Indigenous peoples and how these topics relate to conservation management.
