Urban sustainability courses
The challenges of modern urbanism are many, but without a doubt, sustainable territorial and urban development without forgetting that triple dimension; social, economic and environmental, poses a complex urban progress.
The million dollar question… How to assess the behavior of a city with respect to the sustainability? A problem that takes us much further Far from preparing an environmental impact report traditional.
It is here, where the two free courses of the UPV can help us clear many doubts to understand sustainability urban…
1.- Sustainability evaluation and impact course in the urban environment
Training aimed at understanding trends and elements basics to be able to carry out a sustainable evaluation of a built urban environment.
It analyzes which tools are the most suitable for carry out an analysis of the impact of the policies of urban sustainability in cities.
The course is divided into five weeks with a total 3 to 4 hours per week and starts at the end of this month. Each week represents a theme and they are:
- Week 1: Dimensions for Sustainability urban. First, an analysis is carried out through the classics, followed by a magisterial lecture on the climate change by Nobel laureate Edward S. Rubin and ending with an interview with the late Nobel Prize Sir Harold Kroto on Nanoscience.
- Week 2: Tools for developing a sustainable urban environment. The connection is built with the tools available through science to make our cities sustainable. The possibilities of nanomaterials, followed by the impact key of green infrastructure in the metabolism of the city and ends with an analysis of the role of networks intelligent energy distribution for cities of the future.
- Week 3: Evaluation and assessment. deal with the concepts of evaluation and impact analysis of the built environment. The theoretical framework followed is developed due to the Integrated Design approach necessary for a assessment and impact evaluation presented.
- Week 4: City models. Investigation in the modeling techniques that are applicable in the cities. Introduction of how to apply BIM (Remember the compilation of free BIM courses that we have) and analysis of the life cycle.
- Week 5: Circular cities. HE presents the envisioned final paradigm of the circular city through starting from the foundation of the concepts that later they are developed in the Circular City model proposed. As a final point, the Plan of Sustainability from the University of British Columbia in Canada.
We can access the evaluation and impact course of the sustainability in the urban environment from the EDX platform HERE (Remember that the MOOC course is free and you can see all the videos, but if you want an accreditation of having done, it's time to pay the corresponding fee)
2.- Interdisciplinary introduction course to urban sustainability
This course to understand sustainable urbanism is aimed at so that students can develop a model of neighborhood and be able to assess their behavior. Offers an interdisciplinary approach to sustainability in the urban architecture.
The course is divided into four weeks with a total of 3 to 4 hours per week and begins at the end of this month. Each week represents a theme and they are:
- Week 1: Relevance of the materials in the buildings. You will learn to develop a model conceptual from the architectural elements of the buildings; the basic component of which will be performance of the materials.
- Week 2: Buildings: behaviour, functions and materials. It investigates the methods to optimize energy performance. Needs and limitations inherent to the selection of materials and urban elements of the neighborhood (the second layer of the model for the green, blue and gray infrastructure).
- Week 3: Efficiency, sustainability and architecture. tools will be developed principles for introducing energy and measuring its impact potential on climate change (CO2). This supposes a new (third) layer in our sustainability model of neighborhood, which will be addressed from a perspective overall.
- Week 4: Integrated design and modeling business. Techniques for an evaluation will be explored joint venture directly related to policy issues to be applied.
We can access the course on interdisciplinary introduction to urban sustainability from the EDX platform HERE (Remember that the MOOC course is free and you can see all the videos, but if you want an accreditation of having done it, you have to pay the corresponding fee)
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