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Undergraduate Course: Building Energy and Environmental Performance 5 (CIVE11057)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Engineering CollegeCollege of Science and Engineering
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Year 5 Undergraduate) AvailabilityAvailable to all students
SCQF Credits10 ECTS Credits5
SummaryThe course considers environmental and energy aspects of buildings, with emphasis on the operational life cycle. It adopts a focus based on building physics and modelling to empower engineers and designers with a systematic approach to deliver high performing buildings.
Course description This course is an introduction to building physics for sustainable design. The course explores the role buildings, and their occupants play in the transition to a decarbonised world and establishes the foundations for their analysis and designing. The course focuses on the design of the building envelope, its systems, and how everything is connected through occupant behaviour. Practical applications are considered through a project-based approach to showcase current and future societal challenges.
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesNone
Course Delivery Information
Academic year 2025/26, Available to all students (SV1) Quota:  None
Course Start Semester 2
Timetable Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 100 ( Lecture Hours 10, Seminar/Tutorial Hours 10, Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 10, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 68 )
Assessment (Further Info) Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment) Coursework %: 100
Feedback Not entered
No Exam Information
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  1. Recognise the role buildings and their occupants play in the transition to net zero.
  2. Describe fundamental building physics processes that drive building design.
  3. Analyse energy use in simple buildings driven by weather conditions.
  4. Appraise design options available and their influence on net zero goals.
  5. Create building designs that meet aspirations for net zero.
Reading List
Beausoleil-Morrison, I., 2021. Fundamentals of Building Performance Simulation.
Passiv House Institute, 2022. Passive House Planning Package Version 10 (2022). Passiv House Institute, Darmstadt.
Szokolay, S.V., 2008. Introduction to architectural science: the basis of sustainable design, 2nd ed. ed. Elsevier, Architectural Press, Amsterdam.
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
Keywordsbuilding physics,net zero,energy demand,simulation
Contacts
Course organiserDr Daniel Fosas De Pando
Tel: (0131 6)50 7204
Email: d.fosas@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMr Tom Lawford-Groves
Tel: (0131 6)50 5687
Email: t.lawford-groves@ed.ac.uk
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