Course Overview
This course is directed at Architects and allied built-environment professionals, and examines the application of core sunlighting approaches and technologies in commercial buildings as sustainable strategies to; reduce energy costs, offset greenhouse gas, and provide a substantially improved indoor environment in workplaces.
Prerequisite(s)
- No prerequisites are required for this course.
Credits
0.0
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Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Develop a common framework to define core sunlighting and its scope of application.
- Review basic scientific principles of illumination, sunlight harvesting and distribution.
- Develop methodologies to quantify performance and analyze the cost-benefits of core sunlighting strategies.
- Identify technical issues in deploying core sunlighting technologies within buildings.
- Connect the importance of utilizing core sunlighting in the built environment as a sustainable building strategy to support the sustainability goals common to many communities.
Effective as of Winter 2012
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