48-415 Advanced Building Systems

Units: 9.0 Department: Architecture Prerequisites: 48-305 Cross-listed: 48-723 Related URLs: http://www.arc.cmu.edu This course introduces the concept of Total Building Performance, delineating the full range of performance mandates required for today's architecture, including building integrity, thermal quality, acoustic quality, visual quality, air quality, spatial quality, and building integrity. The course highlights the state-of-the-art and major innovations in building technologies for structure, enclosure, mechanical, telecommunications, lighting, and interior systems. The course will explore the relationships, opportunities, and conflicts of the performance mandates, and the integration of building systems necessary to achieve total building performance. Through this course, students should be able to bring leadership to multi-disciplinary design processes, towards creating high-performance buildings.

Popularity index Rank for this semester: #907 Rank in this department: #18   Students also scheduled 48-405 Architecture Design Studio: Systems... 48-453 Urban Design 48-599 Independent Study 60-435 Advanced SIS: Metals 48-551 Ethics and Decision Making in Archi... 48-579 Contemporary London Architecture 60-418 ETB Studio: The Interactive Image 80-253 Continental Philosophy 70-643 Publishing on the World Wide Web 48-596 LEED Buildings and Green Design

Spring 2005 times

Sec	Time	Day	Instructor	Location
A	12:00 - 1:20 pm	T	Hartkopf	BH A53
		R	Hartkopf	BH A53