Environmental and Sustainable Building Engineering

1 Introduction to the course 1.1 The concepts of sustainability and resilience 1.2 The role of the built environment: buildings and open spaces 1.3 Grand Challenges 1.4 Architectural Engineering and its role 2 Sustainable buildings 2.1 The building as an organism 2.2 Buildings’ components: features, design and examples 2.3 Buildings’ components effect on sustainability (materials and performances) 2.4 Intervening on existing buildings: diagnosis, strategy, intervention 2.5 Green protocols and certifications 2.6 Performance evaluation 3 Sustainable open spaces in proximity to buildings 3.1 The built environment as a system 3.2 Buildings and open spaces interface for sustainability and resilience 3.3 Open spaces components: features, design and examples 4 Lab sessions: Application of the acquired knowledge to a design project, parallel to the lectures: 4.1 Existing building diagnosis 4.2 Existing building design and strategy for intervention 4.3 Preliminary design 4.4 Final design 4.5 Computational analyses for testing sustainability and resilience

Possessing a base knowledge of architectural engineering

Not mandatory: Integrated Strategies in Architecture By Joan Zunde, Hocine Bougdah ISBN 9780415360845 Published June 5, 2006 by Taylor & Francis

Attendance and participation will be evaluated towards the final grade

Attendance and participation will be evaluated towards the final grade, as well as the punctuality in uploading the homework The final exam consists in the presentation (15 minutes maximum) of the project developed during the class, comprising all of the parts that compose it. Then, two or three theory questions will be asked, regarding the theory lectures.

-Theory lectures -Lab sessions parallel to theory lectures (wit laptop) -seminars from eng./arch. working in the field of constructions -seminars of architectural engineering on specific topics