澳门六合彩开奖记录
CE3SBE: Sustainable Built Environments
Module code: CE3SBE
Module provider: School of Construction Management and Engineering, School of Built Environment
Credits: 20
Level: Level 3 (Honours)
When you'll be taught: Semester 1
Module convenor: Dr Eugene Mohareb, email: e.mohareb@reading.ac.uk
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Co-requisite module(s):
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Placement information: NA
Academic year: 2024/5
Available to visiting students: Yes
Talis reading list: Yes
Last updated: 21 May 2024
Overview
Module aims and purpose
- To explain the role, practice, and application of sustainability for built environment professionals聽
- Applying the fundamentals of resource efficiency and relevant frameworks (including urban metabolism and life cycle assessment) to debate and research-based learning to better evaluate technical options;聽
- To demonstrate the role of natural systems & processes in cities and how they affect the sustainability of urban areas;聽
- To enable students to apply critical thinking and problem solving to their knowledge and understanding of sustainability; including in application to current solutions being proposed for our sustainability challenge.聽
The Module Lead at the 澳门六合彩开奖记录 Malaysia is Dr聽Mustafa Klufallah (m.klufallah@reading.edu.my).
Module learning outcomes
By the end of the module, it is expected that students will be able to:聽
- Evaluate the ways in which built-environment practitioners are reliant upon natural systems and assess the sustainability of resource consumption in the built environment;聽
- Describe the resource cycles and material flows that influence the built environment and evaluate an urban metabolism or life cycle assessment case study;聽
- Compare and contrast carbon footprints of different cities and discuss ways in which cities can be modelled after natural ecosystems to improve resource efficiency;聽
- Demonstrate the limitations imposed on urban areas through thermodynamic principles, with a deep understanding of the environment-economy relationship and imaginative approaches to reducing resource throughputs in the built environment聽
Module content
- Introduction to the Sustainable Built Environments module; aims, objectives, learning outcomes;聽
- Energy and the role and limits of resource efficiency in buildings, including domestic buildings;聽
- Urban resource consumption and its mitigation;聽
- Water, material, nutrient conservation, efficiency and technologies in the built environment;聽
- Greenhouse gases from cities and how they can be mitigated聽
- Solutions for urban sustainability, using natural ecosystems for inspiration聽
Structure
Teaching and learning methods
Lectures, debates, group work, presentations, and associated problem-based learning, and private study.聽
For students studying at our campus in Malaysia: This module may be taught in a different semester and the breakdown of study hours may differ to those set out in the Study Hours table (please refer to the Module Handbook for the correct breakdown). In addition, you will be required to complete an additional 40 hours of study, taking the total number of study hours to 240 for this module. This is to comply with the Malaysian Quality Agency (MQA).
Study hours
At least 25 hours of scheduled teaching and learning activities will be delivered in person, with the remaining hours for scheduled and self-scheduled teaching and learning activities delivered either in person or online. You will receive further details about how these hours will be delivered before the start of the module.
聽Scheduled teaching and learning activities | 聽Semester 1 | 聽Semester 2 | 听厂耻尘尘别谤 |
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Lectures | 20 | ||
Seminars | 5 | ||
Tutorials | |||
Project Supervision | |||
Demonstrations | |||
Practical classes and workshops | |||
Supervised time in studio / workshop | |||
Scheduled revision sessions | |||
Feedback meetings with staff | |||
Fieldwork | |||
External visits | |||
Work-based learning | |||
聽Self-scheduled teaching and learning activities | 聽Semester 1 | 聽Semester 2 | 听厂耻尘尘别谤 |
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Directed viewing of video materials/screencasts | |||
Participation in discussion boards/other discussions | |||
Feedback meetings with staff | |||
Other | |||
Other (details) | |||
聽Placement and study abroad | 聽Semester 1 | 聽Semester 2 | 听厂耻尘尘别谤 |
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Placement | |||
Study abroad | |||
聽Independent study hours | 聽Semester 1 | 聽Semester 2 | 听厂耻尘尘别谤 |
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Independent study hours | 175 |
Please note the independent study hours above are notional numbers of hours; each student will approach studying in different ways. We would advise you to reflect on your learning and the number of hours you are allocating to these tasks.
Semester 1 The hours in this column may include hours during the Christmas holiday period.
Semester 2 The hours in this column may include hours during the Easter holiday period.
Summer The hours in this column will take place during the summer holidays and may be at the start and/or end of the module.
Assessment
Requirements for a pass
Students need to achieve an overall module mark of 40% to pass this module.
Summative assessment
Type of assessment | Detail of assessment | % contribution towards module mark | Size of assessment | Submission date | Additional information |
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Written coursework assignment | Written report on Urban Metabolism | 70 | 2,000 words | Last Wednesday of Semester 1 | |
Oral assessment | Oral assessment and presentation | 30 | 15 minutes | During Semester 1 before the assessment period |
Penalties for late submission of summative assessment
The Support Centres will apply the following penalties for work submitted late:
Assessments with numerical marks
- where the piece of work is submitted after the original deadline (or any formally agreed extension to the deadline): 10% of the total marks available for that piece of work will be deducted from the mark for each working day (or part thereof) following the deadline up to a total of three working days;
- the mark awarded due to the imposition of the penalty shall not fall below the threshold pass mark, namely 40% in the case of modules at Levels 4-6 (i.e. undergraduate modules for Parts 1-3) and 50% in the case of Level 7 modules offered as part of an Integrated Masters or taught postgraduate degree programme;
- where the piece of work is awarded a mark below the threshold pass mark prior to any penalty being imposed, and is submitted up to three working days after the original deadline (or any formally agreed extension to the deadline), no penalty shall be imposed;
- where the piece of work is submitted more than three working days after the original deadline (or any formally agreed extension to the deadline): a mark of zero will be recorded.
Assessments marked Pass/Fail
- where the piece of work is submitted within three working days of the deadline (or any formally agreed extension of the deadline): no penalty will be applied;
- where the piece of work is submitted more than three working days after the original deadline (or any formally agreed extension of the deadline): a grade of Fail will be awarded.
The University policy statement on penalties for late submission can be found at: /cqsd/-/media/project/functions/cqsd/documents/qap/penaltiesforlatesubmission.pdf
You are strongly advised to ensure that coursework is submitted by the relevant deadline. You should note that it is advisable to submit work in an unfinished state rather than to fail to submit any work.
Formative assessment
Formative assessment is any task or activity which creates feedback (or feedforward) for you about your learning, but which does not contribute towards your overall module mark.
Students may submit a proposal in week 4-6 describing their chosen case study, why they have selected it, some of the issues the case study has with resource consumption, and citations of relevant literature.聽
Reassessment
Type of reassessment | Detail of reassessment | % contribution towards module mark | Size of reassessment | Submission date | Additional information |
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Written coursework assignment | Written report | 100 | 3,000 words | During the University resit period |
Additional costs
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Computers and devices with a particular specification | ||
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Specialist equipment or materials | ||
Specialist clothing, footwear, or headgear | ||
Printing and binding | ||
Travel, accommodation, and subsistence |
THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS MODULE DESCRIPTION DOES NOT FORM ANY PART OF A STUDENT'S CONTRACT.