ENGS-44 "Sustainable Design"
Winter 2012 Schedule
Lectures and other course activities:
Tuesday and Thursday from 2:00 to 3:50pm
X-hour on Wednesday from 4:15 to 5:20pm
Classroom: 132 MacLean Engineering Sciences Center
Week 1:
Thursday, 5 January Course overview
The Sustainable Design Context
Sustainable Design Principles
In-class
exercise: Creative design
Week 2:
Tuesday, 10 January Building energy needs
Thermal insulation
In-class
exercise: The economic limit to insulation
Wednesday, 11 January Movie projection: "No-impact Man" by Colin Beavan
Thursday, 12 January Solar energy
In-class
exercise: Insolation calculation
Week 3:
Tuesday, 17 January Solar energy utilization
In-class
exercise: Passive gain calculation
Wednesday, 18 January Field trip: Class of 1953 Commons, on campus
(tour led by Dave Newlove, DDS Director)
Thursday, 19 January Active solar systems
In-class
exercise: Sizing solar panels
Homework
set 1 due –
Week 4:
Tuesday, 24 January Green behavior, Comfort in green buildings
In-class exercise: Motivating green behavior
Wednesday, 25 January Movie projection: Bill McDonough's Ted Talk
on Cradle to Cradle
Thursday,
26 January Bo Petersson: Building commissioning
& Energy issues on the
Questions
& Answers
Week 5:
Tuesday, 31 January Water in buildings
In-class exercise: Let’s be creative about water
Wednesday, 1 February Field
trip:
(tour led by Stu White, architect)
Thursday, 2 February Lew Harriman: Building retrofit for energy efficiency
Questions & Answers
Week 6:
Tuesday, 7 February Progress report by students: Groups 2, 3, 4 & 6
Wednesday, 8 February Progress report by students: Groups 1 & 5
Thursday, 9 February David
Madigan: Net-zero energy projects
Questions & Answers
Homework set 2 assigned
Week 7:
Tuesday, 14 February William Johnson: Geothermal and heating systems
Questions & Answers
Wednesday, 15 February No
activity
Thursday, 16 February Dara Goldberg ’08: Sustainable Redevelopment
& Energy Efficiency – Questions & Answers
Homework
set 2 due –
Week 8:
Tuesday,
21 February Nandan Shetty: Transforming Streets and
Questions & Answers
Wednesday, 22 February Field
trip: Landau’s passive house in
(tour led by Hans Porschitz, builder)
Thursday, 23 February Malcolm
Lewis: LEED and sustainable building design
Questions & Answers
Week 9:
Tuesday, 28 February Wind energy
In-class exercise: Integration of wind energy in buildings
Wednesday, 29 February Movie projection: Selections from “The Economies of Being
Environmentally Conscious”, PBS Home Video
Thursday, 1 March Building materials
Homework
set 3 due
Week 10:
Tuesday, 6 March Sustainable communities and cities
In-class
exercise: The ideal city
Wednesday, 7 March Field
trip: Strawbale house in
(tour led by Franny Eanet, owner)
Thursday, 8 March No
activity
Week 11:
Monday, 12 March Final reports by students: Groups 2 & 6
Tuesday, 13 March Final reports by students: Two groups
Wednesday, 14 March Final reports by students: Last two groups
Written project reports due by 5pm