Course Syllabus for students Autumn 2023

After a successful course, the student shall:

- show familiarity with the concept of BIM
- display knowledge of the most common systems and methods of assessing sustainability within the field of Construction Engineering
- demonstrate comprehension of the concept of multicriteria decision making

- demonstrate skills to modify and develop BIM models for sustainability analyses and simulations
- demonstrate the ability to use BIM based tools and software to perform sustainability analyses and simulations

- demonstrate the ability to apply different BIM based sustainability assessment systems and tools for a sustainable built environment
- demonstrate the ability to identify, analyze, simulate, and evaluate vital building performance criteria from a sustainability aspect

The course focuses on the concept of BIM, sustainability assessment systems and creation of BIM models to perform analyses and simulations for buildings’ sustainability and performance assessments.

The course includes the following elements:
- The concept of BIM
- Sustainability assessment systems
- BIM based sustainability assessment tools
- Design Authoring

Instruction is conducted through lectures, exercises, and project work. A limited number of guest lectures in Swedish might occur.

The teaching is conducted in English.

The applicant must hold the minimum of a bachelor’s degree (i.e., the equivalent of 180 ECTS credits at an accredited university) with at least 90 credits in construction engineering, civil engineering, architecture engineering, lighting design or equivalent. The bachelor’s degree should comprise a minimum of 15 credits in mathematics and 7,5 credits in BIM or CAD 3D, or equivalent. Proof of English proficiency is required.

The course is graded 5,4,3 or Fail.

Name of the Test	Value	Grading
Project1	4.5 credits	5/4/3/U
Exercises	3 credits	U/G

¹ Determines the final grade of the course, which is issued only when all course units have been passed.

The literature list for the course will be provided 8 weeks before the course starts.

Scientific papers and other course material will be available in Canvas, free of charge.