Energy and the Environment
| Code | School | Level | Credits | Semesters |
| ABEE4098 | Architecture and Built Environment | 4 | 20 | Spring UK |
- Code
- ABEE4098
- School
- Architecture and Built Environment
- Level
- 4
- Credits
- 20
- Semesters
- Spring UK
Summary
This module begins by discussing current worldwide energy resources and energy demand, international carbon reduction targets, and the need for sustainable development. Within this context, it describes the methods and technologies used to convert those energy sources to usable forms, such as thermal, mechanical, and electrical energies, and used by built environment systems. Their relative performance, economics, and environmental impacts, are considered and improvements are discussed. The ability of environmental systems to record and share performance data can be exploited to improving their performance so that they become smart systems. The Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM) is identified as a method of assessing, rating, and certifying the sustainability of buildings and students will complete training that would allow them to sit the examination (not included) to become a certified BREEAM Assessor.
Target Students
Building Performance Engineering U7PBPENG (K21A).
Classes
- One 2-hour seminar each week for 11 weeks
- One 2-hour lecture each week for 11 weeks
Assessment
- 100% Coursework 1
Assessed by end of spring semester
Educational Aims
To identify the need for sustainable development and to show how the energy and environmental sustainability of buildings can be determined and improved. Highlight the importance of the internet of things and the development of smart systems. Use a standard assessment procedure to determine the lifetime sustainability of a building.Learning Outcomes
Knowledge and Understanding:
• International energy sources, demands, mechanisms of energy conversion and storage, and carbon emissions;
• Economic, social and environmental impacts of building energy and resource demands;
• Approaches to reducing energy demand and embodied carbon of the built environment;
• Exploitation of the internet of things to develop smart system that moderate their own performance to optimize building performance.
Professional/practical skills:
• Use of BREEAM as a method of assessing the sustainability of a building.
This module supports the following Engineering Council learning outcomes - supporting students to:
M4) Select and critically evaluate technical literature and other sources of information to solve complex problems.
M5) Design solutions for complex problems that evidence some originality and meet a combination of societal, user, business and customer needs as appropriate. This will involve consideration of applicable health & safety, diversity, inclusion, cultural, societal, environmental and commercial matters, codes of practice and industry standards.
M6) Apply an integrated or systems approach to the solution of complex problems.
M7) Evaluate the environmental and societal impact of solutions to complex problems (to include the entire life-cycle of a product or process) and minimise adverse impacts.