Course Details
Multi criteria assessment of buildings
Academic Year 2025/26
NHA060 course is part of 1 study plan
NPC-EVB Winter Semester 1st year
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
5 credits
Semester
winter
Forms and criteria of assessment
course-unit credit and examination
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
- 1. Recommended literature, basic definitions, legislation, concepts of sustainable development.
- 2. Life-Cycle Assessment- principles.
- 3. Life cycle assessment of buildings, building materials and products, environmental declarations, etc.
- 4. Multi-criteria evaluation of buildings, building materials and products. Overview of used methodologies.
- 5.–7. Detailed acquaintance with the multi-criteria assessment methodology.
- 8.–9. Renewable building materials and materials with low embodied emissions and energy. Overview, use in building process.
- 10. Recycled raw materials in the context of sustainable building - demolition vs. deconstruction, reuse, full or partial recycling, etc. Introduction of available technologies and procedures.
- 11.–12. Structural solutions for sustainable building - green roofs and facades, solar walls, integration of renewable sources, etc.
- 13. Socio-cultural aspects of sustainable building. Sustainable from the point of view of the barrier-free use of buildings. Requirements and examples.
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
- 1. Assignment of building, backgrounds for calculations, assignment of semestral work.
- 2. Calculation of material weights.
- 3.-5. Evaluation of environmental criteria.
- 6.-7. Assessment of socio-cultural criteria.
- 8. Evaluation of economic criteria.
- 9. Evaluation of location.
- 10.-11. Working with the selected software tool.
- 12. Presentation of semestral work.
- 13. Final corrections, credit.