Postgraduate Program in Sustainable Architecture and Construction
Low Carbon Green Buildings and Circular economy
With this program, you will work on the building’s construction process throughout its life cycle, with a strong focus on collaborative design and sustainability. In this way, you will approach environmentally responsible concepts and technical solutions.
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Language:
English
Duration:
12 Weeks (16 ECTS)
Zigurat-specific degree
Digital
100% ONLINE
With live virtual classes
Registration Period Open
Starting Date: February 2023
Because architecture significantly influences the way we live. Because we need to live in a healthy environment.
Constructing, designing, and rehabilitating highly efficient buildings, optimizing and reducing resources in all phases of their life cycle. This course prepares you to work with the correct solutions to the demands of the current construction sector.
The construction sector generates nearly 40% of annual global CO2 emissions.
Through energy simulations, innovative solutions, and promoting the circular economy, you will contribute in reducing this percentage by constructing efficient buildings.
GlaxoSmithKline Carbon Neutral Laboratory for Sustainable Chemistry.
Why you should choose this postgraduate program
1.
Innovate with the most environmentally appropriate materials, solutions, and building systems in your project
2.
Apply building principles, strategies, and techniques for circular economy-based design
3.
Dominate the energy simulation tools to consolidate your learning
4.
Learn how to design Low/ZIB (Zero-Impact Buildings)
5.
Maximize energy efficiency in buildings without increasing costs
6.
Consider energy certifications as an asset to the building
Sorigué Museum, Lleida, Spain, ongoing
AS+ architects
Nobelia Tower offices, Rwanda, ongoing
Carlos Arroyo Architects
Academic content
Module 1.
Eco-friendly buildings
· General framework of building requirements
· Actions for new constructions
· Efficient renovation
· LEED and BREEAM environmental protocols
· Design scales
· Design with social, economic, and environmental impact
Module 2.
Life Cycle Assessment – Reducing Embodied Carbon (REC)
· Circularity Criteria: Level(s)
· Circularity Indicators
· REC’s life cycle analysis
· Improvement strategies from the architectural point of view
· Impact on all stages of life cycle
· Influence of REC on Circular Economy, Cost, Comfort and, Performance
· CAPEX
Module 3.
Life Cycle Assessment – Reduce Carbon Emissions (RCE)
· Passive strategies from architecture
· Active strategies
· Effect on user compliance
Module 4.
Energy efficiency - active vs. passive strategies
· Circularity Criteria (Levels)
· Circularity Indicators
· REC life cycle analysis
· Improving strategies from the architecture
· Impact on all stages of the life cycle
· Influence of RCE on Circular Economy, Cost, Comfort, and Execution
· OPEX
Module 5.
Analysis with energy models.
· Model analysis
· Thermal comfort-lighting comfort-consumption triad.
· Parametric analysis of scenarios
· Search for the optimal solution according to the case
Module 6.
Efficient retrofit.
· Methodological differences between former-new projects and rehabilitation of an existing heritage through practical examples.
· Solutions for new constructions and renovations
Module 7.
Sustainable and Circular Construction: new buildings
· How to apply circularity in building construction.
· Implications of circularity in the construction sector.
· How to evaluate the circularity of a project
Module 8.
Approach to Holistic Design
· Differentiate between rehabilitation and new construction
· Fulfill budget and planning with added value
· Integrating energy, water, waste, bio-sustainability synergies
· Environmental quality according to UNE 171330
· The building’s impact on the user’s comfort
Module 9
Energy Certifications: Passivhaus, BREEAM, LEED, VERDE, WELL
· Energy certification processes: PassivHaus, BREEAM, LEED, DGNB, VERDE, WELL, among others
· New certifications in process related to circularity Levels
· Utility and benefits
Faculty
Board
Xavier Aguiló i Arán
UK Manager and partner at BAC ecg MEng, MAMD AQPE, member EIC Member. CSM, RCA , AA school & UEM lecturer.
Industrial Engineer specializing in Structural Engineering. Experience working with BAC Barcelona as a structural consultant (formerly OMA and BOMA). Associate at BAC and appointed Director responsible for the Madrid office. Currently, UK Manager.
Marti Riera
Energy and Sustainability in the Built Environment Aiguasol.
Studies in Architecture at the Polytechnique University of Catalonia and MSc in Environmental Design and Engineering at University College of London.
Antoni Herrera
Owner en Aiguasol and Project Manager
Coordinador de proyectos orientados a la planificación urbanística energética, al diseño de soluciones pasivas para edificios singulares y a la certificación y acreditaciones públicas y privadas.
Maria Sánchez Ontín
Arquitecta
Arquitecta por la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Máster en estructuras de la edificación por la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Máster en ingeniería de la madera estructural por la Universidad de Santiago de Compostela. Fundadora del estudio de arquitectura especializado en madera The Cambium Design.
Pablo Martínez Coto
Diseñador y calculista de estructuras de madera.
Ingeniero de Montes por la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.
Máster en ingeniería de la madera estructural por la Universidad de Santiago de Compostela. Diseñador y calculista de estructuras de madera en Escuadría.
Nuestros Alumni
Cuando te gradúes, te unirás a una de las redes profesionales más grandes del sector en el mundo: la comunidad de Zigurat Alumni con más de 65.000 estudiantes de más de 70 países. Aquí tienes algunas de las valoraciones de nuestros Alumni:
Patricia Tenorio
He sido alumna del Máster BIM Management en Infraestructuras y GIS y estoy más que satisfecha tanto con el nivel del profesorado como del sistema de aprendizaje que aplican. Las prácticas concretamente son el punto fuerte de este máster puesto que funcionan como un verdadero simulacro del trabajo colaborativo real en la metodología BIM.¡100% recomendable!
Ignacio Barra
Definitivamente un centro de educación que esta a la vanguardia en los temas que tratan y enseñan. Sus Master muy bien enfocados hacia las nuevas tecnologías con docentes de un gran nivel y junto al staff de soporte hacen de un buena experiencia de aprendizaje.
Cristina Palomar Lozano
Muy recomendable. La metodología online que utilizan te permite compaginar el máster elegido con el trabajo. Me ha gustado mucho el enfoque 100% práctico ya que es la mejor forma de aprender, y el apoyo tanto de profesores como del equipo académico en los foros es muy bueno.
Acreditaciones y membresías
BARCELONA
MADRID
