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Course Name	Turkish	Ekolojik Yapı Malzemeleri
	English	Ecological Building Materials
Course Code	CKY 536E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	2	3	-	-	-
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Leyla Tanaçan
Course Objectives		-To introduce the ecological building design principles. -To introduce environmental impact parameters of materials and buildings -To introduce the effect of a material in an ecological building design -To teach the LCA of alternative building materials in terms of non-renewable resource use and environmental/human impact.
Course Description		Sustainability in Architecture; Building-environment relationship; Environmental impact parameters; Evaluation of the subject on case studies representing best practices in sustainable design; Importance of building materials in a sustainable design; Principles and methods for evaluating ecological performance of a building material; Standards and tools developed to identify an ecological building material; Ecological evaluation of the alternative building materials with respect to life cycle analysis (LCA) method; Analysis of the materials of an existent building with respect to their ecological properties and development of new proposals.
Course Outcomes		-To gain consciousness in the principles of an ecological building design, -To have knowledge on environmental impact of materials and buildings, -To have knowledge on standards and tools developed to analyze an ecological building material -To be able to select ecological building materials from its alternatives with respect to Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) method.
Pre-requisite(s)		none
Required Facilities		Classroom
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Textbook		Wooley, T, Kimmins, S., Harrison, P., Harrison, R., “Green Building Handbook”, E&FN Spon, 1998, NY 2 Alex Wilson, Mark Piepkorn, “Green Building Products, The GreenSpec Guide to Residential Building Materials, (TH 455 G74 2005), New Society Publishers , Canada, 2005. 3 Demkin, J. A., ‘Environmental Resource Guide:Includes 1998 Supplement’, The American Institute of Architects, 1996, John Wiley and Sons., Inc., Washington 4 Kibert, C.J., ‘Sustainable Construction-Green Building Design and Delivery’, John Wiley and Sons, Canada, 2005. 5 Spiegel, R, Dru Meadows, D., “Green building materials : a guide to product selection and specification”, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1999. 6 Wooley, T., Kimmins, S., “Green Building Handbook (Volume 2)”, F&Fn SPON, USA, 2000
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