48-723 Performance of Advanced Building Systems

Units: 9.0 Department: Architecture Prerequisites: 33-106 Cross-listed: 48-415 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.

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Spring 2005 times

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