ARCH0003-7

Duration

30h Th, 30h Pr, 2,5d FW

Number of credits

	Bachelor in engineering	5 crédits

Lecturer

Shady Attia

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the first semester, review in January

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

The course "Sustainable Building Construction Technology Ia" is aiming to address sustainable architecture and conceptual design from a technical, constructive and material science perspective. During the study semester we explore the basics of building construction approaches and technologies in order to serve architectural projects.
This course is designed to deeply study sustainable building techniques and principles. The course explores the construction elements, and constructive approaches in parallel to performance of the various building materials and their implementation in construction. The course is structured into three main parts: 1) Design and materials, 2) construction timeline on site and thermal bridging details. The topics will be presented in logical order to achieve a deep understand and ideal representation of sustainable building construction techniques. The following topics are studies during this course:

Sustainable design and construction, and life cycle assessment of buildings.
Elements of Construction
Principles of Construction

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

At the end of this course the student should be able to:

Observe and represent building construction.
Learn the systems and methods for a supporting structure and an envelope.
Learn the main building materials and their technical implementation.
Read and interpret technical drawings
Apply and propose different architectural solutions based on different structural systems

The course should enable students to:

Inventory: References and understand the common construction systems,
Comparison: identify and differentiate solutions
Defining and naming: recognize and know the parts of a building construction
Proportion: materialize and order the different parts of a structure,
Projecting: compose and share solutions.
Creation and design: of buildings on different construction scales (sizing, scale, thickness modularity)
Learn to work independently while referring to specifications and professional referential documents.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

This is an introductory course and does not have any prerequisites.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

The courses follow a hybrid approach (bended learning) of the flipped classroom and classical ex-cathedra lectures representing a good compromise between different learning methods, different educational streams to achieve the learning objectives.

In class presence from September to December: Classical Lecture, Flipped Classes, Mini Concepts, Reading in class, practical work (TP) site Visits.
Form of examination: Written exam, Continuous assessment of project during the semester, Jury, Final Deliverable.
One or more site visits or training center will be organized in the course of the semester, date and practical information will be confirmed timely.

Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)

Face to face from September till December.

Assessment methods and criteria

Examine for the theoretical part: 40% of the overall grade
Overall evaluation of the practical work: 60%

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks

You must enroll in this course! The course has automatically an online course space on the eCampus (Blackboard) platform.

Contacts

Shady Attia, PhD, LEED AP Professor of Sustainable Building Technology Head of Sustainble Buildings Design (SBD) Lab
UEE Dept., Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of Liège
Quartier Polytech 1, Allée de la Découverte 9 4000 Liège, Belgium Tél: +32 43.66.91.55 - Fax: +32 43.66.29.09 shady.attia@ulg.ac.be
www.sbd.ulg.ac.be/

Building construction techniques I, elements