SCIN 612 Sustainable Building Science: Fundamentals, Tools, and Applications
This course explores the multidisciplinary challenges and opportunities to make the built environment more sustainable, by covering building science fundamentals, tools, and applications. Various topics are covered including green building design principles, methods to assess building energy performance, life-cycle analysis, the relationship and interaction of buildings with their inhabitants, and finally, the study of buildings in respect to their urban environment and infrastructure. This course adopts a practical and holistic approach by introducing students to contemporary solutions and trends both in the industry and in academia. It also teaches them fundamental tools to assess and critique sustainability solutions from a life-cycle perspective, while accounting for how these solutions affect – and are affected by – building users. This is expected to prepare students to work on multi-disciplinary teams with professionals from various fields including engineers, urban planners, human factors and ergonomics experts, social scientists, and architects.
Offered
Fall Spring