Courses

Courses

The program offers 4 daily hours of academic input, complemented by a two hour afternoon session with guest speakers from the field. Additionally related workshops and visits are offered.

Learning objectives

• Understand the origin of resources and the respective use as well as the integration in buildings
• Learn about the relationships between buildings and their context
• Create an understanding for the necessity of interdisciplinary cooperation to realize green building strategies

Course topics

• Sustainable urban and settlement development, spatial planning for increased quality of life
  (including: mobility, open space planning, energy supplies and renewable energies, waste management)
• Resource-optimized building concepts
  • Fundamentals of planning for  resource-optimized building concepts
  • Passivhaus and Energy Plus Buildings
  • Healthy Building
    • Thermal comfort
    • Air quality
    • Daylight planning
  • Buliding envelope, renewable construction materials (NAWAROs)
  • Building Services Engineering
    • Control systems, automatization
  • Certification of buildings, quality control
  • Sociological aspects, impact of utilizers