Speciality Requirements Student must complete 21 credit hours

Course Code	Course Name	Credit Hours	Prerequests
466500	Economic Performance of Green Building	3
In addition to the environmental and social aspects, the economic aspects are considered one of the basic pillars on which the idea of sustainability is based. The economic aspects of green construction are considered one of the most important obstacles to promoting the idea of sustainable architecture and green buildings. Accordingly, this course deals with the principles and methods of economic analysis of green buildings, with a focus on the cost of the building's life cycle from cradle to grave. This course also reviews the economic benefits of green building and methods for comparing different building design options to reach the best sustainable economic option.
466501	Sustainable Construction Materials	3
This course aims to gain knowledge about sustainable construction and green building materials. It also sheds light on sustainable practices and methods that promote environmentally friendly construction. During this course, current irresponsible construction practices and methods will be discussed, and the impact of various types of construction and construction processes on the environment will be demonstrated through the discussion. The sustainability of the building will be addressed based on the rules of the life cycle from material extraction to waste disposal. During the course, basic building materials will also be explored during the stage of extracting raw materials from the origin in addition to the manufacturing stage. In addition, the stages of building use and maintenance and their relationship with sustainability will be explained. Finally, the end of a building's life will be discussed which may include reuse or demolition, and different sustainability assessment systems will be explained.
466503	Renewable Energy Technologies	3
This course covers aspects of performance analysis and system design/sizing of renewable energy systems to integrate with a building. The course provides opportunities to gain experience in issues of technology selection, design, installation and performance analysis of a range of renewable energy systems. With a focus on solar energy technologies (photovoltaic and solar thermal systems), small-scale wind turbines, geothermal energy and their integration into buildings. This includes aspects of weather data collection, system performance analysis, system design criteria, design/simulation tools, field evaluation of these technologies.
466504	Climate Change Mitigation for Buildings	3
The course addresses the main drivers of climate change and the challenge represented by working to mitigate climate change. The course addresses the following issues: (1) The effect of global warming, and climate response to anthropogenic emissions or land use changes. (2) the potential consequences of climate change and associated costs for the building sector; (3) Technological options to reduce emissions from buildings (incorporation of renewable energy into the building, changes in building operation and management mode, negative emission technologies and solar radiation control) and outdoor site management strategies to mitigate climate change impacts (4) Climate change mitigation status and experience in Selected sectors, such as buildings, transportation and energy; (5) Climate change resilience policies and framework conditions (Paris Agreements).
466505	Design for Technology Integration and Sustainable Buildings	3
This course develops research skills through a collaborative design project that explores the integration of sustainability concepts and strategies into a building. The course also provides opportunities to apply different approaches to evaluating performance and developing a comprehensive understanding of the building and its systems. This course is research-based with an emphasis on modelling, design and analysis. Students will be equipped with the knowledge and skills necessary to evaluate interactions between buildings, their occupants and local climate conditions. Integrated design solutions that seek to reduce the use of energy resources in building heating, cooling, lighting and water while achieving good environmental performance will be explored. Students will work in groups to develop a building design from which individual projects will be identified that will evaluate basic sustainability performance and investigate appropriate, sustainable, energy- and water-efficient, material sustainability and indoor environmental quality strategies to improve building efficiency.
466555	Smart Buildings and Facilities	3
This course works to move engineers and designers from the traditional pattern that prevails in designing and constructing buildings, such as passive monoliths that lack a central control system to the buildings that are equipped with sensors and sensory inputs that provide the necessary data in order to transform the building into a smart building that has the ability to improve environmental performance automatically. This course examines developments in construction technology, including the use of BMS and application of the Internet of Things (IoT), big data analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning, occupancy management, and COVID-era innovations in touchless mobility. The course guides students towards understanding these technologies and their applications in their projects all the way to the practical aspects of creating a smart building at different levels of complexity and scales. In addition to linking the course to smart networks and smart cities.
466590	Research Methodologies & Data Analysis	3
This course enables students to acquire and practice basic skills used in research by exploring a specialized topic related to sustainability and the indoor environment in buildings. This course covers the skills and resources needed to conduct independent academic research, including how to effectively publish and present findings. It will also cover choosing a topic for research, and how to use research methods techniques in the research literature, including the use of various references and scientific websites on the Internet. In addition, students will learn about the different research methodologies used in scientific research, their advantages, and how to use them to analyze different data.
466598	Comprehensive Exam	0
The student must successfully pass the comprehensive exam.

Speciality Optional Requirements Student must complete 15 credit hours

Course Code	Course Name	Credit Hours	Prerequests
466550	Buildings Retrofitting	3
In this course, students will acquire the skills and knowledge necessary to carry out retrofit activities to reduce energy and water use. It also serves as an introduction to the concepts of energy and water sustainability. Students will learn about the principles and basics of retrofitting buildings and the obstacles they face. Energy and water conservation concepts.
466551	Cooling & Heating Systems	3
This course aims to gain knowledge about heating and air conditioning systems and the most effective alternatives. The course will also investigate advantages and disadvantages, and an estimate of its specifications and the calculations associated with it. Students will also be able to determine their sizes.
466552	Microclimate and Environmental Design	3
Students will develop passive means of controlling the environment to achieve comfort in different climate zones. The concept of external and internal climate of buildings will be critically investigated and students will develop a good understanding of the microclimate created by cities, landscapes and building groups. The impact of materials, form and construction on environmental performance will be examined with reference to global standards. Specific techniques and methodologies for climate analysis and environmental design will be learned and applied.
466553	Indoor Environmental Quality	3
In this course, we will define the nature and causes of indoor environmental health and comfort problems, and the measures used to investigate and control them. We will present indoor environments and their pollution problems, inorganic pollutants (asbestos, radon, lead), combustion-related pollutants, organic pollutants, and biological pollutants. We will also discuss measuring indoor pollutants, source control, ventilation, air filtration, and current laws.
466554	Net Zero Energy and Passive Buildings	3
Zero energy buildings, also known as net zero energy buildings, are buildings that, using on-site renewable energy sources, produce the same or more energy than they consume on an annual basis. Typically, a zero energy building consists of a highly efficient building with a photovoltaic system on the roof or installed on-site. This type of building relies on passive construction strategies to provide highly efficient buildings for their projects that do not consume much energy. In the next few decades, much of new construction could be zero or passive energy. This course provides a comprehensive exploration of zero energy and passive buildings, including building energy dynamics, renewable system fundamentals, energy economics, site and source energy and financing, and incentive structures. Case studies will be used to demonstrate feasibility, key concepts and lessons learned. The course also explores the benefits and challenges that zero energy poses to the energy grid and passive construction in enhancing energy security, resilience and survivability.
466556	Advanced Simulation of Building Performance	3
The course discusses the main concepts and applications of Building Performance Simulation (BPS), a system that models and simulates buildings, energy use, and building services. The course mainly focuses on evaluating energy demand and consumption during building operation as well as user comfort (thermal and visual comfort). The course includes defining and evaluating weather data (solar radiation, temperatures and wind), internal loads as well as user behavior. Learn about the usual methods for modeling the main physical phenomena in the building envelope: thermal conductivity, convection, light, and radiation. Introduction to the main modeling methods resulting from a building component or system: windows and glazing, solar shading, room temperature distribution, building air flow and ventilation.
466557	High-Performance Facades	3
Advanced facades are those that are designed, analyzed, procured and operated as a system that requires optimizing ? often conflicting ? performance criteria such as cooling load, artificial and natural lighting, sound insulation, user comfort, costs and aesthetics. This requires an integrated approach from the entire team including architects, project managers, suppliers and engineers, from the early stages of the design process. This course explores advanced, high-performance building facade systems and their role in reducing environmental impacts while improving the quality of the indoor environment for building occupants. Topics to be covered in this course include integrated facade design approaches, basic building physics that determine facade performance, structural facade typologies, solar and natural lighting control facades, dual facades, ventilated facades and dynamic facade systems. Various analytical procedures and simulation tools for evaluating high-performance facade designs will also be examined.
466558	Sustainable Built Environment and Transportation Systems	3
Through this course, students learn about the principles of sustainability in transportation and communication, as the course addresses topics of transportation and public health, environmentally friendly vehicles, environmentally friendly pedestrian facilities, bicycle facilities, public transportation systems, sustainable pavement systems, and environmentally friendly logistical systems.
466559	Human and Built Environment	3
A sustainable approach to architectural and urban development includes taking the human element into account at all stages of the project. It is enough to examine the various events and documents that have marked the history of sustainability to understand this necessity. Along with this historical approach and in order to highlight the place that should be given to people in these approaches, it is necessary: - To understand the methods and processes implemented in human-environment interactions. - Defining comfort and its evaluation tools. - Defining the role of users in the various stages of the project. - Knowledge of tools and methods that allow the establishment of a regional dialogue in order to integrate users into projects and thus allow a better adaptation and allocation of the designed space.
466560	Ventilation and Dynamic Air Movement in Buildings	3
With an overview of indoor ventilation, airflow and CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) through which skills are developed in CFD modeling of airflow, heat transfer and pollutant transport processes in buildings. This course will introduce the fundamentals of air flow and heat transfer associated with building ventilation with a brief introduction to CFD principles for building applications. Students will be introduced to commercial CFD packages (simulation software such as Design Builder or ANSYS Fluent), which will be used to develop practical modeling skills by exploring airflow, heat transfer and dispersion of pollutants in and around buildings based on a variety of ventilation strategies.
466561	Energy Management Optimization	3
In this course students will learn about the role of energy management and conservation in the development of industrial, commercial, and public facilities. At the end of this course, students will have a clear vision of the importance of building, improving and adopting energy management systems. What is the energy situation: global and national, how to conduct an energy audit. Understanding and analyzing energy bills, in addition to auditing energy in buildings and mechanisms for energy saving and improving the efficiency through lighting and air conditioning systems and electrical equipment. Finally getting to know ISO 50001.
466562	Digital Design - Integrating BIM and Digital Twins	3
The integrated design perspective, which is considered the latest in technology, is a global requirement in the world of construction within the various levels of building applications, starting from the small building to the largest facilities. The digital design process, with its various tools, ranging from Building Information Modeling (BIM) to Digital Twinning (DT), has become a basic requirement for managing the full life cycle of the project from the design phase to the maintenance phase.
466563	Advanced Building Structures and Wrappers	3
This course aims to gain knowledge about advanced building materials and reviews their use and techniques in creating sustainable building envelopes and structural systems. During the course, the student explores innovative alternatives to traditional building materials and improved forms of them, and learns new forms of innovative concrete, wood, steel, and glass structures with improved qualities and other techniques that enhance the properties and functions of materials. In addition, the student will be introduced to green materials that preserve the environment. The course also aims to gain knowledge about the design of advanced buildings that can be dismantled and reused. The role of sustainability and its relationship to building technology, the need for flexibility and change in building and construction, and the resulting economic benefits will be discussed. Through the course, the student will also learn about a systematic approach that allows for designing the possibility of transformation and change in buildings. Finally, the student will learn how to evaluate transformation ability through a proposed knowledge model.
466564	Risks Management and Sustainable Constructions	3
The course contains a general introduction to the basic concepts of disaster risk reduction and the terminology commonly used in this field. The course includes a number of chapters, the most important of which are: natural and unnatural hazards to which buildings may be exposed, and the main elements and drivers of both risk assessment (including: risk, vulnerability, exposure, and capabilities), risk management (including: avoidance/or mitigation, preparedness, emergency response, recovery and rebuilding), risk analysis and classification of their levels, characteristics of the disaster risk management planning process in addition to the elements and sequence of the process, and the methodology for rapid assessment of damages and collapses. Structural and non-structural buildings. The course also contains a chapter on the goals, objectives, and priorities for action of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 and the extent of integration of its goals with the goals of sustainable development, in addition to the relationship and integration between building sustainability and the ten basics of resilient cities adopted by the relevant international institutions.