Building sustainability

This unit will address issues of sustainability in the built environments from a number of perspectives and provide you with a variety of lenses in which the built environments interlock with the human and natural system. You will apply skills and knowledge from this unit, and use a rigorous process of design, simulation, validation, and evaluation, to solve real-world problems. Topics include passive and active technologies, building energy simulation and modelling of different domains in indoor environmental quality, field data acquisition and analysis, building codes and rating system, and the topics intersecting with other fields, such as ubiquitous computing, architecture design, public health, high-performance materials, etc.