Environmental and Energy Sustainability
Description
The learner will be able to apply several tools necessary to ensure sustainable design, construction, maintenance and management of civil engineering projects. He/she should have a holistic view of sustainable development, i.e. that they automatically consider the concerns of society, economics and the environment. They will have gained specific knowledge of pressing global and local environmental issues such as the causes, effects and remedial measures pertaining to climate change, with specific reference to civil engineering and also in regard to pollution, biodiversity, energy and resource conservation.
Learning Outcomes
Automatically embrace sustainable development in all actions as a civil engineering designer, builder and maintainer.
Discuss ecosystems, biodiversity, ecologically sound engineering practices and their interdependency and to identify the relationships between construction activity and effects on the environment.
Discuss the pressing problems of local and global environmental significance, including the causes and effects of these in global, regional and local contexts and to be conversant in the main international conventions and EU/national environmental legislation dealing with these problems
Calculate the carbon footprint on elements of construction and construction activity as a tool of life cycle analysis and know how this is incorporated in Building Information Modelling
Manage energy use in the design and operation of specific civil engineering schemes.