Resilient and Sustainable Built Environment

Code:

MBUILD12

Acronym:

ACRS

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
CNAEF	Civil construction and Civil engineering

Instance: 2023/2024 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Web Page:	http://www.mbuild.eu
Responsible unit:	Department of Civil and Georesources Engineering
Course/CS Responsible:	Master in Sustainable Design, Construction and Management of the Built Environment

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MBUILD	14	Syllabus	2	-	6	56	162

Teaching language

English

Objectives

• Discuss the main challenges that the built environment (buildings and infrastructures of any kind that compounds cities and human facilities) is facing (e.g., sustainability, resilience and needed adaptation to the Climate Change).


• Study the resilience concept and adaptation techniques (e.g., Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDS), Low Impact Development (LID) and Water Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD)).


• Analyse and discuss the possible actions to implement in the built environment, taking suitable decisions with a clear list of criteria and priorities.

Learning outcomes and competences

Learning outcomes

1. To understand the importance of the resilience applied to the built environment
2. To be acquainted with the techniques to deal with extreme teperatures in the built environment.
3. To be acquainted and apply the water sensitive urban design techniques.
4. To describe the main tools for urban management and apply GIS for decision-making.
5. To understand the smart city concept and its implications in the resources and energy management.

 

Specific competences:

• Be able to design, construct and manage sustainable and resilient infrastructures in the urban environment.

Working method

Presencial

Pre-requirements (prior knowledge) and co-requirements (common knowledge)

The ones required for admission in MBUILD.

Program

Block 1 (30h). Jorge Rodríguez:

Resilient built environment: risks and actions.

Sustainable built environment management: Low impact development (LID), Water Sensitive Urban Design and Cool Pavements.

 

Block 2 (15h). Esther González:

Urban management and Smart cities: GIS and tools for decision-making.

 

Block 3 (15h). Helena Corvacho:

Climate adaptive urban environment: heat island effect, resources and energy.

Mandatory literature

Diverse;  Class notes provided by the lecturers

Comments from the literature

1. Additional References
   
   
   
   • Rockefeller Foundation (2017) 100 Resilient Cities. Resources. http://www.100resilientcities.org/resources
   
   
   • Berkeley Lab (2017) Heat Island Group. https://heatisland.lbl.gov/publications
   
   
   • CIRIA (2017) Guidance on the construction of SuDS (C768) https://www.ciria.org/
   
   
   • UrbanGIS (2017) International Workshop on Smart Cities and Urban Analytics https://wp.nyu.edu/urbangis/
   
   
   • SmartCity (2017) Expo World Congress. Circular Economy http://www.smartcityexpo.com/en/
   
   
   
   

Teaching methods and learning activities

Presential

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	5,00
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	15,00
Trabalho prático ou de projeto	80,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	4,00
Elaboração de projeto	30,00
Estudo autónomo	30,00
Frequência das aulas	52,00
Trabalho de investigação	40,00
Total:	156,00

Eligibility for exams

GRADING SCALES AND PERFORMANCE

• U.PORTO Portugal<=> Excellent=> 20; 19; 18; | Very Good=> 17; 16; | Good=> 15; 14; | Sufficient => 13; 12; 11; 10; | Fail=> 9; ...; 0; |
• U. CANTABRIA Spain<=> Matrícula de honor=> 10.0; | Sobresaliente=> 9.9; 9.0; | Notable=> 8.9; ...; 7.0;| Aprobado=> 6.9; ...; 5.0; | Suspenso=> 4.9; ...; 0.0; |
• THM GERMANY<=>Excellent=> 100; ...; 88; | Good=> 87;...; 73;| Satisfactory=> 72;..; 58; | Sufficient=> 57;...; 50; | Fail=> 49;...; 0; |

Calculation formula of final grade

Block 1 = 50%
Block 2 = 25%
Block 3 = 25%

Examinations or Special Assignments

N/A

Internship work/project

N/A

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

N/A

Classification improvement

• If the final grade of the module is FAILED, then the student has to resubmit the failed parts in order to increase the final grade of the module to obtain a PASS. In those cases where the original exercise/workshop was submitted in group or in pairs, the new submission will be carried out individually; in those situations, lecturer will adapt the exercise to accommodate the working effort for an individual submission.


• Deadline of the re-submission will be done, as latest, during the official resit period of the semester at UC.