Contents: Databases on both Architecture and Eco Design to facilitate teaching about Sustainable construction. The Enhanced Eco Audit Tool additionally covers secondary processes and cost.

Applicable to: Any course covering the environmental impact of a design.

• Understand classes of materials, their structural properties, and the underlying reasons for those properties.
• Understand thermal conductivity, hygrothermal properties, durability and flammability of materials.
• Understand systematic selection of materials and processes using constraints and objectives.
• Awareness of the impact of products on the environment and how to design in a way that reduces this impact.

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Example resources:

• Lecture unit
• Paper
• Case study