Sustainable Design in the Built Environment

Catalog description

Course develops students’ analytical abilities to apply fundamental concepts of environmental issues, building systems analysis, and architectural and engineering design. Students learn how to reduce the negative environmental impacts, and maximize positive social and economic impacts, of the built environment. Students cultivate applied skills in sustainable design; including fundamental energy calculations, heat flow analysis, schematic design analysis, and building operating impacts assessment. Course emphasis is on building energy flows. Students conduct group and independent research projects, providing the opportunity to study broader impacts of the built environment and propose solutions. Class meetings combine lectures, student presentations, and group workshops. To join the waitlist if there are no available seats, please enter an override request reason and briefly summarize your learning objectives in Courses@Brown. Your concentration and semester information is automatically entered.