BEng (Hons) Architectural Environment Engineering including an industrial year Bachelor's degree at the University of Nottingham

Develop basic awareness of the building design process and design skills and techniques used by engineers. Covers overview of the construction sector and the role of engineers in design teams, hand sketching and 2/3D computer drafting tools, communication and IT skills including programming, simple assessments of designed performance of buildings, field trip, and training in presenting work through graphics, numerical data and text.

Technical knowledge and techniques for surveying buildings and structures and identifying common defects using qualitative and quantitative methods. Covers moisture ingress, surface and interstitial condensation, freeze/thaw resistance, rot and infestation, sulphate attack, carbonation and corrosion.

Engineering concepts that inform and enrich the environmental performance of buildings. Covers fundamentals of fluid mechanics (fluid properties, hydrostatics, fluid dynamics) and analysis of flow through piped water systems and design of hot and cold water services.

Environmental agenda as it applies to the architectural profession. Explores key bioclimatic strategies used to maintain appropriate conditions for the occupants of buildings, tying together occupant comfort, building schedule and climate.

Basic understanding of design software and techniques for the design of simple building services systems and practical experience of fabrication skills. Covers engineering design principles of building services including heating, lighting, piping design, water supply, drainage and basic control systems. Includes practical experience through workshops on metal work, plumbing, electrics and wall building.

Principles, concepts and analysis of thermodynamics relevant to applications in building environmental engineering. Covers dimensions and units, thermodynamic properties, thermodynamic systems, forms of energy, work and heat, ideal gas law, steady flow energy balance equation, 1st law and 2nd law of thermodynamics, steam table and the Rankine cycle.

Understanding of the role that electricity plays in controlling the environment within buildings and the wider built environment.

How mathematics underpins engineering design. Covers real engineering problems in areas such as structural analysis, heat transfer systems and fluid mechanics. Progresses to topics including complex numbers, single variable calculus and methods for solving systems of equations.

Build on the foundations of Mathematical Methods for the Built Environment 1. Covers real engineering problems in areas such as control systems, heat transfer and fluid mechanics. Progresses to topics such as vector calculus, multi-variable calculus and further matrix methods.

Advances the principles of thermodynamics and fluid mechanics in Thermofluids 1 and provides applications to architectural environmental engineering. Topics include vapour compression and vapour absorption refrigerator cycles, psychrometry, wet-bulb temperature, air conditioning, general heat conduction equation, steady-state one-dimensional heat conduction, convection heat transfer, and introduction to radiation heat transfer.

Fundamentals of acoustic and lighting phenomena as they relate to design within the built environment. Covers psychological and technical considerations that underpin design requirements and selection of acoustic and lighting strategies relating to the design of buildings.

Introduction to large scale building services, principally natural ventilation, air conditioning and other environmental control systems. Covers assessments of heat gains and losses, thermal comfort and relevant climatic data, system types and associated secondary plants, plant selection, location, sizing and design alternatives.

Advanced mathematical skills to tackle advanced engineering problems. Covers translation of physical engineering situations into mathematical form, drawing on real engineering examples in areas such as control systems, heat transfer and fluid mechanics. Topics include systems of ODEs, separation of variables and application of Fourier series.

Mix of theory and application through computer simulation of control systems with particular focus on buildings technologies. Includes deriving dynamic models of building service, block diagram presentation, time response of systems, and selection and design of a controller.

Project development issues and project management issues. Covers procurement of land and buildings, project management, development finance and economic factors, strategies and controls, facilities, estate and property management in relation to interests in the architectural profession and the building industry. Includes risk management and human resources management.

Develops awareness of fluid mechanics and its application within building environment engineering and teaches fundamental principles of fluid mechanics and their application to practical problems in building environment design.

Introduction to computer simulation tools and how they may be used to understand the energy behaviour of buildings. Covers methods of examining non-steady state performance of buildings, transient building response, computer simulation tools, and exploration of energy flows through buildings in relation to climate, design, materiality and occupant behaviour.

Smart energy systems, which exploit synergies across multiple sub-systems such as electricity, heating, and transport to optimise energy use and reduce carbon intensity. Covers importance of data science, renewable energy technologies and investigation of their performance in hands-on lab sessions. Includes building a model of a smart energy system in the context of a real-life case study.

Year-long placement with an appropriate company. Subject to meeting relevant requirements, this year will be spent in industry. The placement year enables you to take what you've learned and apply it to real projects in a professional working environment. Supported by a placement tutor in securing a position. Can provide source of income and may lead to a job offer before graduation.

Opportunity to create work as part of a 'consultancy' team with other students to produce a group report. The project utilises, extends and develops fundamental knowledge and skills gained throughout previous semesters. Initial task is to analyse a current building and, based upon assessment of current climate and thermal comfort condition, propose a method to take the building towards net zero.