Environmental Systems in Architecture ARCH 4320

Course description:

This course covers study various environmental systems and their applications in buildings, such as health, water supply engineering, sanitation, lighting and acoustics and thermal insulation and mechanical installations.Includes two parts, theoretical and practical projects and part laboratory practice.

Course Aims:

This course aims to:
  • Identify the impact of modern technology in the design and construction process.
  • Learn the scientific foundations for principles of heating and cooling, plumbing, lighting, acoustics and its applications in buildings.
  • Familiarity with various environmental issues.

Course outcomes:

The student after his study of this course are able to:
  • Gain a full awareness of the relationship between the architectural design and related environmental issues in terms of satisfaction warming, saving energy, acoustics and other processing.
  • Calculating and assessing the environmental performance of buildings through software.
  • Tethering capability for all phases of architectural design architectural issues and environmental issues in terms of architectural space design externally and internally.
  • Produce a practical project.