Postgraduate Course: Conservation Technology and Materials (Distance Learning) (ARHW11001)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art | 
College | College of Humanities and Social Science | 
 
| Course type | Online Distance Learning | 
Availability | Not available to visiting students | 
 
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) | 
Credits | 15 | 
 
| Home subject area | Architecture - Heriot-Watt University | 
Other subject area | None | 
   
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Taught in Gaelic? | No | 
 
| Course description | PLEASE NOTE: THIS COURSE IS OWNED AND ADMINISTRATED BY HERIOT-WATT UNIVERSITY and delivered by distance learning. Course leader P Banfill - student effort hours 150. 
 
To provide students with an understanding of the properties and availability (both historic and present day) of the materials used in original construction  
and conservation.  To show how those properties influence the built form and the processes of conservation.  
 
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements |  None | 
 
| Additional Costs |  None | 
 
 
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2012/13  Semester 2, Not available to visiting students (SS1) 
  
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Learn enabled:  No | 
Quota:  None | 
 
	
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Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes 
Students should:  
1. Understand the difference between technology and materials 2. Recognise the differences in behaviour between the different materials  
3. Understand the science of materials performance in relation to different environments 4. Understand the role that specialists in investigation, testing and analysis of materials can play in building conservation  
5. Be aware of the effects of deterioration processes in materials on performance 6. Recognise the contribution that materials, technology and workforce skills can make to a built environment that is both sustainable  
and provides a high quality of life.  
 
Students should be able to observe, draw logical deductions, and make recommendations on the information available. They should be able to commission and discuss, as informed colleagues, the results of specialist investigations and analyses carried  
out by others. They should be able to make informed judgments on the likely success of alternative repair and rehabilitation treatments.  
 
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Assessment Information 
Examination 70% 
Coursework 30% |  
 
Special Arrangements 
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Additional Information 
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| Keywords |  Structural materials: masonry, iron and steel, timber, concrete. ? Non structural materials: roofin | 
 
 
Contacts 
| Course organiser | Prof Mark Dorrian 
Tel: (0131 6)50 2338 
Email: Mark.Dorrian@ed.ac.uk | 
Course secretary | Mrs Moira Seftor 
Tel: 0131 221 6072 
Email: m.seftor@eca.ac.uk | 
   
 
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