Overview
What you will study
The Environmental Aspects of the Built Environment course, offered by KTH Royal Institute of Technology, is designed to give you a profound understanding about the environmental impacts of the built environment in relation to specific settings and contexts and the ability to suggest and argue for relevant approaches for assessing and adressing the environmental impact in planning situations that you might encounter in your future profession.
After completing the course, you should be able to:
- Describe the potential environmental and health impacts caused by different stages in a building’s life span.
- Be able to analytically discuss environmental hotspots regarding the built environment depending on local contexts and building types.
- Suggest relevant planning strategies to reduce the environmental impact both from new building developments and improvements of the existing building stock.
- Suggest relevant types of evaluation and assessment tools for decision contexts related to planning and management of buildings.
- Account for current national strategies to reduce the environmental impact of the built environment.
Programme Structure
The program focuses on:
- the impact of buildings on human health, environment and natural resources
- environmental management strategies in the building and property sector and their relation to city planning
- tools/methods for evaluating and assessing the environmental impact of buildings
- examples of "green building"
The course includes lectures, labs and project assignments followed up by seminars. Labs and project assignments include using a tool for environmental building assessment as well as analysing strategies for environmental impact reduction in practical cases.
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 3 months
Start dates & application deadlines
- StartingApplication deadline not specified.
Language
Credits
Delivered
Disciplines
Environmental Economics & Policy Natural Sciences Environmental Sciences View 4 other Short Courses in Natural Sciences in SwedenWhat students do after studying
Academic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
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Other requirements
General requirements
- In total 7,5 ECTS-credits within the subject environment and sustainable development, e.g. AL1301 Natural Resources Theory or AE1502 Environmental Systems Analysis for Energy and Environment, or AG2150 Sustainable Planning and Design
- English 6
Tuition Fee
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EU/EEA
FreeTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 0 SEK for the full programme during 3 months.
Living costs for Stockholm
The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.