Course syllabus
Course-PM
ACE285 Integrated sustainable building design - civil engineers lp2 HT23 (7.5 hp)
The course is offered by the department of Architecture and Civil Engineering
Contact details
Examiner
- Alexander Hollberg (AH), Associate Professor in Computational sustainable design, ACE, alexander.hollberg@chalmers.se, 0738-56 77 59
Lecturer/Supervisors
- Alex Gonzalez-Caceres, Postdoc, Sustainable building research group, ACE, alex.gonzalez@chalmers.se, 031 772 40 18
- Despoina Teli, Associate Professor, Division of Building Services Engineering, ACE, teli@chalmers.se
- Max Tillberg, Chief Executive Officer at EQUA Solutions AB
Course purpose
The aim of the course is to equip students with the necessary skills and abilities for the design of sustainable buildings by integrating environmental, functional, technical, and aesthetical qualities in a design concept. Furthermore, students shall be able to cooperate over professional boundaries in the design processes. They are also expected to be able to formulate and communicate their main ideas and goals orally and in written form.
Schedule
Course literature and Material
Literature will be distributed in connection with the exercises, if needed.
Shared folder on one drive
Course design
The course deals with the building design process following an integrated approach where multiple design, sustainability, and performance criteria are taken into account throughout the design process. The course consists of a design project in which architects and engineers cooperate in groups. This cooperation in an multidisciplinary working environment prepares students for working in integrated design teams in their professional life. The project work includes site visit, consultation with stakeholders, and group supervision meetings.
The main part of the course consists in the project work. Students are expected to independently identify a design challenge they want to solve and develop the strategy to solve it using simulation and optimisation. The teachers will support the students in supervision meetings but the students need to drive the projects themselves, There is no predescribed problem solving strategy. It is one of the learning outcomes for the students to develop and implement the strategy themselves.
To support the project work, lectures and workshops are given on relevant topics and tools (energy, Life Cycle Assessment, climatic design, HVAC). Furthermore, tutorials on the software IDA ICE and CAALA will be provided. In addition, students ae expected to explore the software themselves and support each other.
Students are expected to manage the workload in the group themselves. Any group problems should be reported as early as possilbe to the examiner.
Mandatory events were attendance is required are marked in the schedule. In case that these cannot be attended, the students are expected to inform the examiner beforehand to find a solution together.
Canvas will be the main platform for sharing information and communication. The schedule can be found on TimeEdit and on the Canvas calendar. The schedule might need to be adapted to fit the supervision needs throughout the course. All the lecture slides will be provided after the lectures have been given. Recordings will not be provided.
Changes made since the last occasion
This is the first time this course is given.
Learning objectives and syllabus
Learning objectives:
- contribute to the iterative and multidisciplinary process of a building design project with focus on sustainability
- combine passive and active building design strategies
- apply appropriate engineering tools, models, and methods for evaluating indoor environmental quality (thermal comfort, indoor air quality, daylight), energy efficiency and environmental impact (energy use, Life Cycle Assessment) of design alternatives
- work methodically to optimising the design proposal considering multiple performance criteria
- communicate the optimisation strategy and visualize the results in a clear way to a range of stakeholders, e.g. clients, general public, architects, etc.
- collaborate across disciplinary boundaries in design processes
Link to the syllabus on Studieportalen.
Examination form
The examination is based on two parts:
1) the final presentation and poster hand-ins of the group work with the architectures students (5 credits)
2) the individual final report presenting the optimisation strategy and the analysis results in detail for experts and reflecting on the multidisciplinary approach (2.5 credits).
Two intermediate milestone meetings with the supervisors are mandatory to attend. If those are missed, a written intermediate report needs to be handed in within one week after the scheduled meeting.
Details about the expected report structure, length, and format will be presented within the firdst two weeks of the course.
Course summary:
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