CVLE637 SUSTAINABLE BUILT ENVIRONMENT

This course develops the scientific and engineering skills necessary to design energy-efficient and sustainable buildings and built environments. The course aims to integrate laterally a wide range of advanced environmental building design aspects that includes building physics, enhanced natural ventilation, sustainable building materials, rational water usage, global energy demands and renewable/alternative energy technologies, bioclimatic building design, perception of human comfort, and environmental management and strategies. The course also demonstrates examples of both sustainable and unsustainable aspects of current building design practice, and how international policy frameworks can act as both drivers and barriers to sustainable solutions. The course involves individual case studies of international environmental design projects. Current sustainability certification schemes are presented and discussed critically.