Module manager: Simon Rees
Email: s.j.rees@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) View Timetable
Year running 2025/26
This module is not approved as a discovery module
The module will give students opportunities to explore relationships between modern environmental design practices and real-world building performance. It will examine both technical and non-technical factors that most strongly influence achieving high quality conditions, healthy environments for occupants and achieving carbon emission goals post construction. The module will expose students to application of qualitative and quantitative performance assessment and develop knowledge of the impact of sustainability policies and non-mandatory assessment schemes on design trends.
The module aims to develop understanding beyond design to the point of construction and to develop inclusion of feedback from post-construction performance knowledge. Objectives include development of knowledge of:
- application of modern operational performance standards and metrics and insight into their design implications
- application of post-occupancy evaluation methods and feedback within the design process and professions.
- application of quantitative performance and monitoring methods
- relationships between user behaviour, building active and passive systems and indoor activities and environmental conditions and operational performance.
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following learning outcomes relevant to the subject:
ARB Outcomes:
Students will gain an understanding of
1. How diverse global, cultural, social, technological, economic factors and building technology influence aspects of architecture and urban design. CK1
2. The principles of climate change and biodiversity as relevant to design and construction. CK4
3. The principles of building physics and environmental design. CK6
4. The principles required to ensure that buildings are safe to construct, inhabit, use and maintain, refurbish, re-use and deconstruct. CK7
5. Understand the impacts of strategies for structure, construction technology, materials, services, ventilation, thermal environment and lighting and acoustics that are appropriate to a project’s brief and context. D5
6. Understand how modelling and post occupancy evaluation inform design RE6
Skills Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following skills learning outcomes:
a. Academic skills in collection, analysis evaluation and synthesis of data sources.
b. Digital skills to assemble, collate and organise information in technical and graphic communication
c. Identification of key issues within a diverse set of contexts and ability to develop themes from these.
d. Team and individual working showing initiative and collaboration
The module will give students opportunities to explore relationships between modern environmental design practices and real-world building performance. Technical and non-technical factors that most strongly influence achieving high quality conditions, healthy environments for occupants and achieving carbon emission goals post construction. The application of qualitative and quantitative performance assessment. The impact of sustainability policies and non-mandatory assessment schemes on design trends.
Methods of assessment
The assessment details for this module will be provided at the start of the academic year
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lecture | 10 | 2 | 20 |
| Seminar | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Private study hours | 128 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 22 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 150 | ||
There is no reading list for this module
Last updated: 30/04/2025
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