| CODE | EVD1501 | |||||||||
| TITLE | Fundamentals of Environmental Science | |||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 01 - Year 1 in Modular Undergraduate Course | |||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | Not Applicable | |||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 3 | |||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Environmental Design | |||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | Study-unit Aims: - To introduce the basic concepts of environmental design as a response to human needs for a comfortable indoor environment; - To introduce significance of thermo-physical properties of building materials. Learning Outcomes: - Ability to understand human response to thermo-physical conditions, and sensations and perceptions of climatic comfort; - Ability to understand the role of building fabric to modify external climate, including climate classification; - Ability to measure environmental characteristics, including temperature, humidity, acoustic environment, lighting levels. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: - Architecture, Engineering and Environment, Hawkes, D. & Forster, W., Laurence King Publishing Ltd., 2002. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture and Practical | |||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Simon Paul Borg Vincent M. Buhagiar Joseph Falzon Daniel Micallef |
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