Aim
To give the student advanced knowledge concerning energy, moisture, quality and environmental issues in existing buildings and building elements during management, and design stage and production during rebuilding to get buildings that in the long run are moisture sustainable, have low operational costs and a healthy indoor environment.

Knowledge and understanding
For a passing grade the student must

Perform energy analysis and suggest energy efficiency measures.

Review and identify substances in the building and in the building services that are harmful to the environment.

Interpret documents and drawings concerning building design and building services and to identify possible defects.

Describe design of building- and service techniques in older buildings.

Skills and abilities
For a passing grade the student must

Apply different measuring methods and estimate and evaluate there reliability.

Work out maintenance planes as a result of measurements, inspections and examination of available documents and suggest measures on how to improve the indoor environment.

Ability to generalize and use acquired knowledge in other projects.

Calculate and estimate the influence from two-dimensional thermal bridges.

Show ability for teamwork and cooperation in groups, be able to oral and in written, in dialog with other groups, present and discuss ones results and conclusions.

Be able to calculate air flow and pressure distribution within a building and through building components and its interaction with the ventilation system and beable to understand consequences of air leakage.

Judgement and approach
For a passing grade the student must

Have ability to identify the need for further knowledge to develop his/her competence.

Contents
Draw up documents for measures and control schemes for moisture protection and environmental management system during all stages of the building process.

Inform about new national and international regulations for the building trade. Analyse and illustrate what consequences the new regulations will lead to.

Inform about different methods to analyse new and existing settlements concerning building technique, indoor climate, moisture safety and building services systems to give priority to different housing improvement and energy saving measures.

Follow-up of operational statistics of a buildings energy use to obtain a rational use of energy.

Analyse moisture safety, energy consumption and indoor environment in buildings.

Study building technique in older buildings.

Learn to interpret old and new drawings from architects, designers and heating, water and sanitation engineering.

General environmental knowledge concerning ecologically harmful building- and furnishing materials and methods for inventory and handling of such materials.

Information about mould and rot in buildings.

Quality assurance systems in the building trade.

Renovation of sanitary rooms including residual pipe renewal.

Energy systems, balancing and construction automation.

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