ARCH 4530 - Systems Building Seminar

The course focuses on the underlying principles of systems, building system design, and the ways and means by which the building industry and society use resources to condition environments for human habitation, enterprise, and comfort. It concentrates on the hardware side of the building design process, including conventional methods as well as emerging possibilities for responsive and intelligent system design and implementation. With an emphasis on integration within the ethic of environmentally responsible approaches, the seminar addresses the analysis of environmental conditions, the development of appropriate design criteria, architectural and systems responses. The course provides an overview of building systems and subsystem approaches, innovative assembly techniques, and inventions and innovations, including technology transfers from other industries.

When Offered: Fall term annually.

Credit Hours: 4

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