Contents: Intermediate level database with extra data on concretes and other building materials, and properties including bending moduli and flammability. Study environmental impact with the Eco Audit Tool.

Applicable to: Courses in Architecture courses and some Product Design and Civil Engineering courses.

• Understand classes of materials, their properties, and the underlying reasons for those properties.
• Awareness of the impact of products and buildings on the environment; how to design to reduce this impact.
• Understand thermal conductivity, hygrothermal properties, durability and flammability of materials.
• Understand rational selection of materials and processes using constraints and objectives.

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Example:

• Video
• Lecture unit
• Paper and exercises