Kalender

Lecture slides meeting 1

The meeting aims to give a broad understanding and insights into significant environmental aspects related to how the built environment affect the local natural environment and vice versa how the local natural environment in a city contribute to increased well-being of its inhabitants.

Compulsory literature to read in advance:

Bolund & Hunhammar 1999

Beatley 2000

Pages 145-148 (chapter 19) in Wheeler & Beatley (Eds.) (2009) The Sustainable Urban Development Reader, 2nd Edition. Routledge, Oxon.

Optional further reading:

Halweil & Nierenberg 2007

The meeting aims to give a broad understanding about how the use of energy, water and materials in the built environment affects the environment. It will especially focus on the fact that depending on climatic context, building phase you are working with, etc. some problems/issues will be more important to focus in order to provide green buildings. Strategies for reducing these problems will be discussed among the participants but is not the main feature of today.

Kibert (2005)

Bokalders & Block (2010)

Dammann (2004)

Brunner (2011)

Krook et al (2011)

The aim of this meeting is to introduce you to sustainable development as a contested and context-dependent concept and also how the concept green or sustainable building is used in practice, and to the risk of letting the assessment tools and indicators define the concept.

Buildings aim to provide us with shelter, work places, etc. We spend 90 % of our time indoors today. The quality of the indoor environment is thus an important issue when talking about green buildings. The aim of the meeting is to introduce the wide array of indoor environmental problems which may arise in buildings, something about their severity and also their relation to buildings and the surrounding built environment.

The meeting aims to create understanding for the notion environmental indicators, different ways in which they may be categorized and to get training in understanding in which situations different types of indicators may be more or less relevant.

The aim of this meeting is to give you an understanding of environmental aspects at the level of a city or a city district, i.e. what is a sustainable city? At the meeting we will familiarize with a selection of assessment and/or certification approaches for urban sustainability. Fundamental to this is the questions of which aspects need to be included (is it really all about CO2?), and how to choose and define the system boundaries for a city or a city district. However, all processes of change need considering not only what to change, but also change by whom. In relation to this the meeting also brings up the dimension of agency and governance of sustainable urban development.

Observe that the venue has been changed to V12.

The meeting aims to give a basic introduction to life cycle thinking and life cycle assessment. Further it aims to give insights into how and when life cycle approaches can be of use for assessing the environmental impacts of the built environment.

The home exam will be uploaded at Bilda at 9.00 and needs to be submitted at Bilda no later than 23.00.

The computer lab gives you practical experience of using a tool for environmental building assessment. The tool will be introduced during the lab session which also comprises an assignment which you accomplished by using the tool.