ARPL 435 Building Performance Analytics

BIM and sustainability are symbiotic components of the sustainable design and evaluation process - both necessary to answer questions about sustainability within a timeframe fast enough to provide meaningful feedback to the design team throughout the design process. 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. A significant portion of the design decisions that impact building performance are made in the early stages of project development. As a result, the entire process of design is affected. How is building performance analytics implemented into the design process in various scales from the urban to the building, even within a wall section? How is it incorporated into a designer's formative years? These questions help us understand how our design thinking must evolve. This class will learn how to use BIM analytical Software through building performance modeling, evaluate its role in the design process, systematically evaluate the performance and/or effectiveness of the designed measures, gauge sustainable potential, then diagnose actual design projects. It is designed to integrate Theory- Skills-Application to analyze scales of design from a city to the wall section, and how analytics is used to inform design.

Credits

3

Cross Listed Courses

ARPL 435 & ARPL 535