ARCH-4530

Systems Building Seminar

The course focuses on the ways and means by which the building industry and society at large use their resources to plan, design, evaluate, use, and abandon the built environment. It concentrates on the hardware side of the building process, including conventional methods, industrialization, building systems and subsystem approaches, innovative assembly techniques, inventions and innovations, including technology transfers from other industries. Prerequisite: ARCH-4510 or permission of instructor. Spring term alternate years.

4 credit hours