What is Foundation G?
Foundation G is not just a professional development programme. Its essence is in helping professionals think green while unraveling solution approaches that can reduce costs financially and ecologically.
Foundation G will transform the way you manage operating costs and improve your company’s earnings. Foundation G goes beyond the technical, to the managerial and the strategic.
It also helps senior professionals who want to cut to the chase, and who need to get under the skin of the cost and solutions of different climate challenges we have Foundation G.
A certified Foundation G professional will be able to walk into a hotel or apartment building and assess the daily demand within 15 mins. What’s more, s/he will be able to offer a broad framework of solutions that can bring down water use by 30 percent at the minimum.
It is a compact capsule that brings you case studies on water/ energy from sectors like Hospitality, Healthcare, Educational Campuses, IT parks, and such like. It offers many intense hours of online modules from mentors who present real-life challenges on management of energy, water, waste and Air conditioning.
Online and Interactive
These interactive online sessions are intense on understanding solutions, technologies, design approaches, and critically costs of various solution directions.
An info-packed programme helping you evolve a Ready Reckoner on the dynamics of daily demand for water on any building and solutions you can craft, design & devise
Programme Schedule
These learning modules are hosted online and can be take up at your convenience.
Mail hariharan@alttech.foundation for more information.
Course Overview
Learning by Doing
How the programme helps you become a smart water management professional.
Water & You
Understand your water use and connect it to the city-level Big Picture.
Carbon Footprint & You
Measure your carbon emissions and understand water’s role in the challenge.
Water Science
The journey of water, property changes, losses and improvement processes.
Properties of Water Module
Decoding water reports, parameters and treatment processes.
Watershed Management
Basics of watershed structures and how they save money and improve land.
Healing Our Rivers
A river’s journey and restoration approaches for sustainability.
Water, Energy, Carbon
The module explains how the concept of water, carbon and energy are inter-related and how do we assess their impact on the nature.
Harvesting the Skies
This module shares and insight on how can we harness the rain deploying different rain water harvesting methods that ensure maximum water saving and high sustainable practices.
Net Zero Water Rating
The module highlights the water saving techniques that leaves no to zero carbon footprint while practising them while teaching how to calculate and reduce the carbon footprint of the available water saving solutions.
Wastewater to Freshwater
The module has in detail the process followed to convert waste water to potable water that could be put for different use based on their properties after treatment.
RWH
This module discusses the most effective model of rain water harvesting and help understand its benefit over the other models present.
Designing Water Pipelines for a Building.
The standards and codes that are to be followed while designing a building’s water pipelines along with the parameters and benchmark of the service installation have been discussed in detail.
Waste water treatment for textiles and other industries.
The waste water treatment procedures of different industries are discussed in detail to help understand what are the effluents in the water from industries that has to be controlled to make the water re-usable.
Your City & Water Use
The module explains the energy consumption of the different water supply techniques in the city, explain what are the energy and water losses during the process and how to minimise them.
Computing Water & Energy Used
Developing a framework for calculating the total cost of energy and resources used for different methods of water drawing and consumption pattern.
The Demand-Supply Equation for a City
The module helps understand the amount of water and energy that is being currently provided along with calculating the upcoming demand and learning on the sustainable measures to save energy and water.
User Energy, Source Energy and Losses
Water while travelling from its source to the destination uses up lots of energy and resources and the amount of water lost and received by the end user computes to find out how sustainable the methods are.
Carbon Target & Water Efficiency
The module talks about how different water drawing techniques release carbon which needs to be checked against the benchmarks provided along with discussing the most efficient techniques to do so.
User to Source Energy
The module encapsulates all the processes, audits and reports that enables the sustainability expert to understand and take on the required action of minimizing the carbon footprint through affordable steps.
Questions for Reflections
The module highlights the questions that a sustainability expert should seek answer to in order to suggest solutions and assess the present condition of the scenario or structure.
Lessons for Climate Change & Environment
The module explains the role of court in environmental and habitat conservation and also talk about role of Non – Governmental and civil society organization in protect the environment.
What are Natural Resources and How do we Manage them
What are Natural Resources and how these have to be managed to our benefits and improved for future generations.
Energy and Renewable Resources
The module helps understand the Source of electricity generation and also discuss on Nuclear, Coal, Oil/gas , Hydroelectricity.
Ecosystems and Bio Diversity
This module helps understating on what are eco systems and the interaction between the living being and their environment for energy floww and recycle of carbon and nitrogen.
Natural Hazards and Disaster Management
The module talks about the natural hazard that India and the world faces due to the global warming created by climate change.
Environmental Crises and Social Response
The module talks about the environmental crisis and social responsible and how environmental crisis are been created by humans and the solution lies in humans acting with a sense of human responsibility.
Top 10 Learning Outcomes
Industry Leaders offer top managers priceless experience on how to secure value engineering that brings best value for your customers, for purchases and supply chain, for execution, for maintenance, and for the company’s profits and brand outlook on responsible sustainable approaches for the future..
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How to pitch decisions with costs, returns, risks, and benefits mapped.
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How to identify problems, craft a solution framework, map scenarios, evaluate financial and non-financial parameters.
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Each hourly capsule will have co-creation case exercises for teams with mentors for each team to hand-hold the learning-by-doing..
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Learn structuring of operational challenges and connecting challenges at different levels with an understanding of inter-linkages.
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Learn to create solution frameworks with metrics and numbers, costs, materials, and quantities
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Develop capacity to address technical, financial and managerial challenges.
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Effectively communicate solution arrangements to decision-makers and stakeholders on company’s bottom line needs.
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How to present a business case to clients and management.
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Develop ability to define carbon reduction for various types of buildings – homes, hotels, hospitals, offices, school campuses – with special focus on hotels and operations.
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Work with new approaches that are trans-disciplinary, and practical on management learning.
Program Highlights
Interactive real-time online sessions
Project Co-Creation by Doing
Upskill for Leadership
Peer Sharing
Higher Job Prospects
Online and Interactive
Award Winning Experienced Mentors
Case Studies of Live Projects
Learn at Your Own Pace
Students Speak
Get a glimpse of the mentors in action.