Building Systems and Equipment

Catalog description

This graduate-level course engages students with mechanical and electrical systems and equipment in buildings, from the particular perspective of equipment performance evaluation and asset planning. Students are exposed to details of equipment, its operation, control, and adjustments or retrofits for energy efficiency and carbon reduction. The course emphasizes professional practice, including field testing, instrumented data acquisition and key parameter analysis as methods in energy audits, performance assessment and commissioning. Students lead team-based evaluations and improvement planning based on case studies; they will be responsible for coordination and quality control of student-team work, including clarity of analysis, quantification procedures, and quality of technical writing. Pre/Co-requisite: SUS 7900A: Introduction to Building Science and Energy Engineering (WAP 1.1) or SUS 7300A: Low Energy Building