ARPL 535 Building Performance Analytics
As the field of sustainable design evolves, designers and owners concurrently are starting to measure sustainable benefits in terms of their impact on human health, environment, and cost implications. This indicates that the performance of a building is becoming a requirement for assessing sustainable building design and in evaluating post-design to document the effect of sustainability measures.
For the past decade, a broader and more comprehensive perspective of influences has been emerging in our approach to building design and evaluation. New more aggressive building standards such as those already implemented in San Francisco, New York City and Washington DC are already acting as drivers to predict energy use. Evolving codes and third-party green certification requires architectural analysis to address questions about sustainability within a timeframe fast enough to provide meaningful feedback to the design team from the beginning of the integrated design process, and to the owner through facility performance evaluation after occupancy.
Building Information Modeling (BIM) and sustainability are symbiotic components of this sustainability evaluation. Together they propel our design and construction process from performance modeling, through energy evaluation, into the building's life-cycle and O&M tracking when a building is already occupied. This class will learn how to use BIM analytical software through building performance modeling, evaluate its role in pre and post design processes of systematically evaluating the performance and/or effectiveness of the building, then diagnose actual environments. The completion of this course will offer a formal Building Performance Analysis Certificate from Autodesk.
Cross Listed Courses
ARPL 435 & ARPL 535