DEA 2040

High Performance Buildings

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2015-2016.

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.

Course Attribute (CU-SBY)

• 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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