Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
Civil Engineering and Built Environment
Learning Methods
Lecture
Tutorial
Module Offerings
7304BEUG-JAN-CTY
Aims
To evaluate how the concept of sustainable development is incorporated into practical design strategies for buildings.
To appreciate the role of sustainable energy management in the built environment, and to critically evaluate various methods of managing energy use for sustainable development.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Explain how sustainable development is defined and analyse its implications for building design practice for commercial, industrial and residential developments.
2.
Examine the practicalities and implications of zero carbon building design and analyse current practice for commercial, industrial and residential development, with particular regard to the technique of building energy modelling
3.
Evaluate energy use in recent history and investigate how strategies for future energy sources relate to low and zero carbon technologies
4.
Investigate the energy performance of mechanical and electrical building services engineering systems specified in a range of building types.
5.
Investigate and critically appraise established techniques of generating energy, contrasting these with the range of renewable and low & zero carbon energy generating technologies available and emerging.
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:
Building requirements and constraints, building performance ambitions. Statutory and non-statutory regulations, design guidance, environmental assessment methods, environmental management plans. Building Design: Layout, structure, envelope construction and performance, orientation and glazing. Internal and external environmental design conditions: heating, lighting ventilation. Sustainable and renewable material specifications. Low and zero carbon technologies. Building energy monitoring. Energy consumption in buildings and the wider environments: common and innovative methods of managing and minimising energy consumption. Current energy demands of the built and wider environments: prediction of future energy demands; prediction of future energy resources from conventional and renewable sources.
Building requirements and constraints, building performance ambitions. Statutory and non-statutory regulations, design guidance, environmental assessment methods, environmental management plans. Building Design: Layout, structure, envelope construction and performance, orientation and glazing. Internal and external environmental design conditions: heating, lighting ventilation. Sustainable and renewable material specifications. Low and zero carbon technologies. Building energy monitoring. Energy consumption in buildings and the wider environments: common and innovative methods of managing and minimising energy consumption. Current energy demands of the built and wider environments: prediction of future energy demands; prediction of future energy resources from conventional and renewable sources.
Module Overview:
This module evaluates how the concept of sustainable development is incorporated into practical design strategies for buildings. You will learn to appreciate the role of sustainable energy management in the built environment, and to critically evaluate various methods of managing energy use for sustainable development.
This module evaluates how the concept of sustainable development is incorporated into practical design strategies for buildings. You will learn to appreciate the role of sustainable energy management in the built environment, and to critically evaluate various methods of managing energy use for sustainable development.
Additional Information:
This module allows the student to critically analyse and evaluate the implications of design decisions on the environmental performance of buildings.
This module allows the student to critically analyse and evaluate the implications of design decisions on the environmental performance of buildings.