Course Objectives
This course provides:
- An understanding of the basic principles and the impact of environmental factors on the built environment.
- An awareness of necessity and how decreasing the energy consumption, ways of predicting humidity and condensation levels and providing thermal comfort within buildings.
- To be able to analyze the thermal characteristics and behavior of building materials to make the students calculate heat loss and gain.
- To comprehend the principles of environmental design embracing ecological and climatic factors.
- To progress the student ability to discuss the characteristics of climatic regions and the impact of climate on traditional architecture.
- An understanding of the importance of fire prevention and safety in architecture.