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CNST-Y512

Energy performance of buildings

academic year
2025-2026

Course teacher(s)

Bert BELMANS (Coordinator)

ECTS credits

5

Language(s) of instruction

english

Course content

Objectives (and/or specific learning outcomes)

Teaching methods and learning activities

go to the course description on the VUB website, 4017230ENR, https://caliweb.vub.be/?page=course-offer&id=007471&anchor=1&target=pr&year=2122&language=en&output=html

References, bibliography, and recommended reading

go to the course description on the VUB website, 4017230ENR, https://caliweb.vub.be/?page=course-offer&id=007471&anchor=1&target=pr&year=2122&language=en&output=html

Contribution to the teaching profile

This teaching unit congtributes to the following competencies

  • exact sciences with the specificity of their application to engineering

  • reformulate complex engineering problems in order to solve them (simplifying assumptions, reducing complexity)

  • a critical attitude towards one’s own results and those of others

  • consciousness of the ethical, social, environmental and economic context of his/her work and strives for sustainable solutions to engineering problems including safety and quality assurance aspects

  • the flexibility and adaptability to work in an international and/or intercultural context

  • conceive and implement design concepts by creatively integrating architectural and engineering sciences with attention to the structural, material and energy performance of buildings and structures, and their architectural value and constructability

  • an integrative attitude towards using issues of sustainability, ecology and energy as catalyst for creatively rethinking conventional notions of enclosure, tectonics, and programme

Other information

Contacts

Prof. F. Descamp, Filip.Descamps@vub.ac.be

Campus

Other campus

Evaluation

Method(s) of evaluation

  • Other

Other

go to the course description on the VUB website, 4017230ENR, https://caliweb.vub.be/?page=course-offer&id=007471&anchor=1&target=pr&year=2122&language=en&output=html

Mark calculation method (including weighting of intermediary marks)

go to the course description on the VUB website, 4017230ENR, https://caliweb.vub.be/?page=course-offer&id=007471&anchor=1&target=pr&year=2122&language=en&output=html

Language(s) of evaluation

  • english

Programmes