Sustainable Building Process

Procurement for sustainable built environment.

Embodied energy and emissions of buildings.

Selection of materials

Waste management in construction

Planning of sustainable building production.

Knowledge:

- Advanced knowledge on procurement for sustainable built environment.

- Advanced knowledge on life cycle energy and embodied energy of built environment and how to minimize the life cycle energy and embodied energy.

- Advanced knowledge on material selection and construction-site waste management.

- Advanced knowledge on how to map, design and manage work in construction so as to ensure a sustainable construction process.

Skills:

- Supply procurement solutions for sustainable built environment.

- Understand the role of embodied energy in built environment.

- Find solutions to minimize the life cycle energy of buildings.

- Select right material for sustainable construction.

- Planning of sustainable building production.

General competence:

- Present key points of your work to colleagues both in writing and orally.

- Speak the professional language of construction managers.

The course will be made accessible for both campus- and remote students. Every student is free to choose the pedagogic arrangement from that is best fitted for her/his own requirement. Seminars in the course will be given on campus and are open for both categories of students through web conference-systems (Eluminate, Adobe Connect etc). Recordings of seminars and tutoring sessions will be available on internet through the learning management system. Teaching language is English. All hand-ins, reports and examination must be delivered in English.

Mandatory coursework requirements:
- Participation in Seminars
- Two hand-ins