ARBE3101Performance and Sustainability of the Built Environment

Course handbook

Description

This course explores the modern and future built environment through the impact of construction and design decision-making at a global, national and local level. Elements of evaluation, rating, health of buildings and occupants historically and practically are investigated for sustainable and resilient buildings and communities. The philosophies, experiences and resources of our First Nations peoples and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals provides the lens through which these issues are investigated.

Availability2024 Course Timetables

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of the course students will be able to:

1. Discuss the history of colonial invasions and their ongoing impacts on First Nations peoples, cultures and resources and how a global framework for sustainable development can respectfully engage with First Nations peoples and cultures

2. Identify the relationship between a global framework for sustainable development and improving the built environment in Australia

3. Apply decisions about the sustainable design and construction of buildings supported by an appropriate evaluation/rating tool

4. Recall knowledge of Indoor Environmental Quality for the planning of internal environments

5. Apply actions required for maintaining and monitoring building performance and sustainability

Content

1. Introduction to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
2. Applicability of the Sustainable Development Goals to the design and construction of the future built environment
3. Introduction to evaluation/rating tools for sustainable design and construction to support the Sustainable Development Goals
4. Concepts and principals of resilience
5. Acoustic principles and requirements of common interior environments.
6. Artificial lighting principles and requirements of common interior environments
7. Daylighting principles and requirements of common environments
8. Wellness and Indoor Environment Quality in the built environments
9. Place. Access, Equity and Community in the built environments
10. Indigenous philosophies of space, place, and time
11. First Nations culturally safe evaluation principles and practices
12. Concepts and principals of post occupancy evaluation
13. Water sovereignty and First Nations water rights in Australia

Requisite

You cannot enrol in this course if you have successfully completed ARBE4101.

Assessment items

Quiz: Assessment Item 1: Online Quiz

Written Assignment: Assessment Item 2: Professional Report

Quiz: Assessment Item 3: Online quiz

Written Assignment: Assessment Item 4: Professional Report

Contact hours

Semester 1 - 2024 - Singapore BCA

Semester 1 - 2024 - Callaghan

Semester 1 - 2024 - Online

Course outline

• ARBE3101 - Semester 1, 2024 (All) (PDF, 250.6 KB)