UM Students
EVST 495.02 – Green Building
SYLLABUS
STUDENT PROJECTS
Green Building Rating Systems
WEEK 1
1/25 – GREEN BUILDING FEATURES LIST
1/27 – Required reading – WHAT IS GREEN BUILDING?
- Homework – QUIZ & LIST OF SKETCHUP SHAPES TO COMPLETE - Email answers and .skp file to Instructor by Sunday 5pm.
WEEK 2
2/1 – SKETCHUP LESSON1
2/3 – SKETCHUP LESSON2
2/4- SKETCHUP LESSON3
Week 3
2/8 Buildingscience.com “Read This Before You Design, Build, or Renovate”
Please click on the above link to access the document. I recommend reading the whole thing but at least read Section 1 (all), Section 2(a) down as far as Figure 2, and Section 2(b) down as far as figure 24. (Look for the drop down menu in the box at the top of the “Introduction” page to find the different sections). Then briefly answer the following questions…QUIZ – Week 3
Week 4
2/15 – suggested reading – Passive Solar Design 1
Week 5
2/22 – suggested reading – Passive Solar Design 2
2/25 – suggested reading – Passive Solar Design 3
Homework – 1) Name the ten fundamental principles of Passive Solar Design.
2) Which of these is the most important? Please explain why.
Week 6
3/3 – Homework and Info for next week
Week 7
As mentioned during the site visit the homework for this week is to review the Straw-bale house with regard to the 10 Principles of Passive Solar Design. For each of the ten concepts please (briefly) list one thing that the house does well and one that it could do better. Steve Loken will be coming tomorrow evening and I might compose a little quiz about that as well.
Week 8
The Green Building Ratings for your projects are due on Sunday at 5pm. Up til now I’ve been VERY leniant with people handing work in late…but not this time! Results that I receive late will have marks deducted at my discretion.
I don’t want to spend the rest of next week looking at green building rating results so please get them in on time.
Graduates – you are only required to send in one of the results at this time.
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Everyone – please print your results to a pdf. If you all send them to me as excel spreadsheets my computer will die so pdf’s please. If your computer doesn’t have the ability to print to pdf’s, all of the ones in the lab do so go there. If you don’t know how to print to pdf it’s time you learned. (Hint – tell it to print then choose “Adobe PDF” as the printer then save the file somewhere you can find it again then email it to me).
Remember, I don’t care what score you get when you’re rating your project. I’m interested in what you learn from the process. And don’t get too hung up on anything that you don’t understand. Just make a note of any questions and ask me later.
Week 12
Two items for homework.
1) In one paragraph please briefly describe the process of energy modeling a building.
2) In one page or less please give me your best shot at a POSITIVE view of the future. How can we create a sustainable world?
Please have these to me by 5pm on Sunday.