MSc in Building Energy and Environmental Performance Modelling
To offer knowledge and expertise in the effective use of building modelling for assessing energy and environmental performance at the scale both of individual buildings and the city, using computational analysis and physical scale modelling.
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Tuition fees
UK & EU Full Time Student Fees for 2007/2008
Start dates
September each year
Length
1 year (Full-time) / 2 years (Part-time)
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Area of study
Engineering & Technology
Last update
2008-08-01
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Length
1 year (Full-time) / 2 years (Part-time)
Start dates
September each year
Application Deadline
You can find more information about the application process, including downloadable application forms that you can print out from the web, available at www.cardiff.ac.uk/postgraduate/pgapply
Teaching Language
English
Exams Required
The course is suitable for practitioners who advise on, design for, or regulate environmental performance or energy use in the built environment, and for recent graduates in these same fields. Applicants should possess a good first degree, or equivalent work experience in a relevant discipline.
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Course content
Of the many aspects of environmental performance that designers need to consider, the course focuses on those likely to have a formative influence in the early stages of the design process. The breakdown of the first taught part of the course into six modules reflects this.
Modules in the taught element are:
Ambient Environment: takes an analytical approach is taken to the natural environment outside buildings and its influence on environmental design.
Light and Shade: covers the calculation of daylight availability, incident solar radiation, shading/overshadowing effects and artificial lighting simulation.
Thermal Analysis: introduces the complex and often counter-intuitive interactions that govern the thermal performance of buildings and shows how computational analysis tools have a pivotal role to play in achieving efficiency and comfort.
CFD and Air Flow Modelling: looks at the simulation and analysis of ventilation and air flow through and around buildings.
Efficient Building Services: considers strategies for comfortable, safe and healthy environments in buildings more reliant on mechanical services.
Urban Scale Modelling: discusses the broader planning and community issues associated with larger developments and the different approaches the change of scale requires.
In a second stage of the course, students are able to investigate in greater depth an aspect of the subject that interests them. They produce a written dissertation based on their research.
Special Features of this course:
The School is among the leading developers of computer modelling software at scales ranging from individual buildings, through urban clocks to entire cities.
The environmental laboratory is equipped with a boundary layer wind tunnel and the most advanced artifical sky and heliodon installation in the United Kingdom.
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Tuition fees
UK & EU Full Time Student Fees for 2007/2008
Scholarships
Information on postgraduate funding opportunities for UK and EU students, including a regularly-updated list of university studentships, can be found on our website at www.cardiff.ac.uk/postgraduate/pgfunding
Funding is highly competitive and we recommend planning and researching your funding options well in advance of commencing your studies. Also, in most cases, you will need to have a firm offer of a place to study on a postgraduate programme before you will be considered for an award. It is therefore important that you apply for your chosen postgraduate programme well in advance of the closing date for funding applications as set by the relevant funding body.
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