Design beautiful, functional buildings that coexist with nature. Explore innovative glass, lighting, and landscape strategies to protect birds while enhancing architectural vision.
This course examines why birds matter and why they can't see glass, causes of bird collisions, how "bird-friendly" can be defined, mandates and guidelines promoting bird-friendly design, and how bird-friendly construction is compatible with other goals of green design.
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Learn about existing legislation and emerging trends in bird-friendly building codes, understanding the necessity and feasibility of integrating these designs. We'll also explore various retrofit options for existing structures, from films and patterns to external screens and netting. This course will shift your perspective on architecture, empowering you to create structures that are not only aesthetically pleasing and functional but also vital havens for birds, demonstrating that bird-friendly design is both achievable and essential.
Online Courses for Engineers
HalfMoon Education is a nonprofit continuing education provider offering live webinars and on-demand courses for engineers, architects, landscape architects, land surveyors, attorneys, paralegals, accountants and others. Since 1996, we’ve helped thousands of professionals nationwide stay current with industry standards and codes, earn CE hours, and advance their expertise through practical, expert-led learning experiences. Learn more about us at: www.halfmoonseminars.org
Director, Glass Collisions Program, American Bird Conservancy
Dr. Christine Sheppard has been Director of American Bird Conservancy’s Glass Collisions Program since its inception in 2009. She has created a program to evaluate and rate materials for use in bird-friendly design and glass remediation, authored Bird-Friendly Building Design, led the team that wrote LEED Pilot Credit 55: Bird Collision Deterrence, and has consulted on legislation requiring bird-friendly design throughout the US.
