MEng (Hons) Architectural Environment Engineering including an Industrial Year Integrated Master's degree at the University of Nottingham

This module introduces you to some of the technical knowledge and techniques for surveying buildings and structures and identifying common defects using both qualitative and quantitative methods of assessment. Through a two-hour lecture each week you will cover topics such as moisture ingress, surface and interstitial condensation, freeze/thaw resistance, rot and infestation, sulphate attack, carbonation and corrosion.

Building on Level 1 design modules, you'll be introduced to engineering concepts that inform and enrich the environmental performance of buildings. You'll cover the fundamentals of fluid mechanics (fluid properties, hydrostatics, fluid dynamics) and then explore some of these through the analysis of flow through piped water systems and the design of hot and cold water services.

This module aims to help you develop a basic awareness of the building design process and the design skills and techniques used by engineers. Visits to construction sites help to deepen your understanding of the material covered in lectures and tutorials.

This module introduces the principles, concepts and analysis of thermodynamics, relevant to the applications in building environmental engineering. The topics covered include: 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 (closed and open systems, internal energy, enthalpy and entropy, heat engines and the Carnot cycle, refrigerators and heat pumps),

You will be given an understanding of the role that electricity plays in controlling the environment within buildings and the wider built environment through two hours of lectures each week.

Introducing you to the environmental agenda as it applies to the architectural profession, you'll explore the key bioclimatic strategies used to maintain appropriate conditions for the occupants of buildings, thus tying together occupant comfort, building schedule and climate. You'll have a two-hour lecture per week using both physical modelling and computer simulation techniques to gain a better understanding of the strategies involved and their relationship with building design.

Explore how mathematics underpins engineering design. You'll draw on real engineering problems in areas such as structural analysis, heat transfer systems and fluid mechanics and explore the mathematical methods you can use to solve these problems. After consolidating key A level concepts, you'll progress to topics including complex numbers, single variable calculus and methods for solving systems of equations.

This module aims to provide you with a basic understanding of design software and techniques for the design of simple building services systems. It also aims to give you practical experience of fabrication skills. The lectures will introduce you to the engineering design principles of building services, including heating, lighting, piping design, water supply, drainage and basic control systems.

Build on the foundations of Mathematical Methods for the Built Environment 1. You'll draw on real engineering problems in areas such as control systems, heat transfer and fluid mechanics and explore the mathematical methods you can use to solve these problems. The module progresses from A level concepts and previous modules to topics such as vector calculus, multi-variable calculus and further matrix methods.

Extend your mathematical skills to tackle advanced engineering problems. You'll further develop your ability to translate physical engineering situations into mathematical form, drawing on real engineering examples in areas such as control systems, heat transfer and fluid mechanics and exploring the mathematical methods you can use to solve these problems. Progressing from Mathematical Methods for the Built Environment 1 and 2, you'll study topics such as systems of ODEs, separation of variables

This module introduces you to the fundamentals of acoustic and lighting phenomena as they relate to design within the built environment. During two hours of lectures each week, you'll be given an overview of the psychological and technical considerations that underpin design requirements and explore the selection of acoustic and lighting strategies relating to the design of buildings through the introduction of appropriate tools and techniques.

This module develops and advances the principles of thermodynamics and fluid mechanics in Thermofluids 1 and provides applications to architectural environmental engineering. Topics may include: Vapour compression and vapour absorption refrigerator cycles. Psychrometry, wet-bulb temperature, air conditioning. General heat conduction equation (3-dimensional). Steady-state one-dimensional heat conduction in cylindrical coordinate, critical radius of thermal insulation Convection heat transfer: Lam

This module aims to introduce you to large scale building services, principally natural ventilation, air conditioning and other environmental control systems, and to discuss the reasons for resorting to and avoiding A/C and the consequent design issues. Topics include: 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

This module aims to help you develop and extend your skills in designing building services of increasing complexity. You'll study design topics such as: large scale HVAC systems utility services lighting and fire protection services natural ventilation sustainable systems This module expands the design principles of HVAC, along with utility services, and the fire protection systems, into a co-ordinated design. Engineering systems are integrated into a building which is at the design stage.

The aim of this module is to introduce you to computer simulation tools and explore how they may be used to understand the energy behaviour of buildings. Specifically, you'll learn about the methods of examining non-steady state performance of buildings. Starting from a theoretical exploration of transient building response, computer simulation tools are introduced and then used to explore energy flows through buildings.

Two main themes are addressed in this module: Project Development issues and Project management issues. Lectures will introduce the process of 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. Risk management and studies on human resources management will also be introduced.

This module aims to develop an awareness of fluid mechanics and its application within building environment engineering and to teach you the fundamental principles of fluid mechanics and their application to practical problems in building environment design.

This module will introduce students to smart energy systems, which exploit synergies across multiple sub-systems such as electricity, heating, and transport to optimise energy use and reduce carbon intensity. The importance of data science to enable increased efficiency at the building and systems level will also be highlighted. You will be introduced to renewable energy technologies and investigate their performance in hands-on lab sessions.

In this module you will get the opportunity to create work as part of a 'consultancy' team with other students to produce a group report. The project will utilise, extend and develop the fundamental knowledge and skills that you have gained throughout the previous semesters. The initial task is to analyse a current building and, based upon an assessment of the current climate and thermal comfort condition, you will propose a method to take the building towards net zero energy demand.