Green Buildings and Sustainable Communities EENG 8425

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• Describe current contextual issues that influence sustainable design in British Columbia.
• Evaluate the merits of green building practices at various scales of the built environment, including regions, districts, new and existing buildings.
• Explore the imperatives and some applied strategies for the key areas of sustainable design including Site and Landscape; Water Management and Conservation; Energy; Materials and Health; Indoor Quality and Quality of Place, at the regional, district and building scale.
• Describe the significance of accounting for performance in green buildings and various green building rating systems, with an emphasis on LEED v4.
• Use Living Building Challenge (LBC) as an indication of "true sustainability" in group projects.
• Interpret the function of Life Cycle Assessment as a decision making tool for material, systems and technology selection.
• Explain the planning principles required for the long-term sustainability of cities (including ecocity indicators), and how these principles affect transportation, infrastructure, and the well-being of the inhabitants and the bioregion.
• Discuss how cities contribute to local, regional and global sustainability and how policy shapes the built environment.

Effective as of Fall 2019

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