Course Syllabus
CM 2020 Course Syllabus
Introduction
Course: CM 1200 Building Science
This course fulfills the IE (Integrated Exploration) General Education requirement
Course Description
This course will cover essential building science principles that enable students to construct buildings that are safe, comfortable to live in, energy efficient, and functional for many years. Students will learn how to apply building science principles to new construction and how to apply the same principles to remodeling existing homes. Principles of sustainability are incorporated throughout this course.
The principles covered will include the following topics: The house as a system; Air flow; Heat flow; Moisture flow; Indoor Environmental Quality; How these principles apply to remodeling existing homes; Sustainability principles.
Course Objectives
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Be able to explain and give examples of how a dwelling performs as a system and how the occupants and the planet they live on are also part of that system.
- Be able to explain concepts of human energy consumption in the context of emerging world economies.
- Demonstrate an understanding of provident living and global awareness and their role in sustainable energy consumption within the context of real human needs.
- Be able to explain various approaches to green building from "high tech" to natural building systems and demonstrate an understanding of the cost analysis of each
- Demonstrate a basic understanding of various, traditional and natural heating, and cooling systems.
- Be able to identify the effects of air flow principles on a building and discuss ways to minimize the negative effects of air flow.
- Be able to explain heat and moisture flow principals in buildings and how to apply that knowledge to affect proper building techniques whether new construction or remodel.
- Be able to identify and discuss how the elements of building design affect indoor environmental quality.
Required Materials
There is no required text book.
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