Sustainable Energy Infrastructure Design
Identify, plan and design urban sustainable energy-efficient public infrastructure.
Type
Domain
Competency Area
Sustainable Development
Levels
Understands urban policy context for sustainable infrastructure design
Understands the role of infrastructure in helping cities to become greener
Understand infrastructure as an economic, social and political entity, and its relationship with the natural ecosystem
Understands framework that generates a distribution of cumulative urban planning sustainability impacts throughout the lifecycle of an infrastructure system
Identifies and analyses the relation of urban infrastructure with development goals such as land use, economic development, investment, poverty reduction, etc.
Aware of rapid energy efficiency, waste management, water conservation and recycling, green spaces, transportation and biodiversity protection assessments strategies of the infrastructure sector
Understands zoning law enables sustainable energy infrastructure development
Applies context to existing practices
Understands the role and capacity of local, state and federal institutions in executing climate change policies
Understands creation of sustainability-focused tools for the infrastructure sector that can be classified as (1) knowledge-based methods (2) rating schema or (3) performance-based tools
Aware of technical and program management skills, tools and knowledge on the “how” of identifying sustainable energy infrastructure programs in public infrastructure
Understands feasibility and limitations
Applies innovative models and mechanisms for financing urban infrastructure to deliver good services and to improve the green performance of cities
Understands the limitations of a comprehensive, performance-based approach (for local institutions, government officials, private firms engaged in building infrastructure and their employees) to sustainability-focused design
Establishes and maintains effective energy management systems for monitoring and controlling energy use
Manages the administrative needs for energy certification procedures for existing and upcoming infrastructure projects
Understands and incorporates the role of non-governmental sustainability stakeholders in promoting sustainable infrastructure
Oversees mandatory energy audits for existing infrastructure
Designs sustainable infrastructure program
Designs policy solutions using sustainability-focused tools for the infrastructure sector
Drafts the comparison between two infrastructure design scenarios (status quo versus a sustainable alternative) using modeled benchmarks and empirical benchmarks
Incorporates measures for “socially responsible financing” to incentivize the transition
Aware of sustainability-related innovations in infrastructure planning, design, construction, operation, and maintenance
Designs policy based on Energy Conservation Building Code (ECBC, 2017)
Contributes to global sustainable infrastructure design goals
Incorporates sustainability-related innovations either as retrofitting or by planning, designing, construction, operation of new infrastructure
Develops integrated approaches to sustainable infrastructure in support of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
Approves energy certifications and represents at awards for National Energy Conservation
Participates in international collaborations on Efficient Energy Programmes