DEA 2040

High Performance Buildings

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2014-2015.

A "high performance building" is one that integrates and optimizes all major high-performance building attributes, including energy efficiency, aesthetics, life-cycle performance, cost-effectiveness, environmental impact, and occupant safety, comfort and productivity.  This course introduces design strategies and system approaches to create, evaluation and make design recommendations for high performance buildings.

When Offered Spring.

• Develop a comprehensive and integral understanding of buildings elements and building systems, and their implications for the planning, design, and operation processes.
• Explain the implications of a variety of design and system strategies for the performance of building; conduct building performance evaluation; analyze the pros and cons of different design strategies and building systems solutions; and make planning, design and operation recommendations.
• Compose building element and system analysis reports; compose building performance diagnosis reports.

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