London Metropolitan University-L68

Course Details

Architecture, Energy and Sustainability (MSc)

Course Description

This course is tailored for architects and other professionals working in the built environment who want to acquire specialist skills and knowledge in low energy design and sustainable development. Students acquire a practical and theoretical grounding in the knowledge and skills required to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from buildings and ensure that buildings are adapted to meet the challenge of climate change. Skills are developed in a range of different methodologies for evaluating environmental conditions and predicting the effects of design solutions. These may include data collection and interpretation methods and computer-based simulation of buildings, set within a framework of low energy design principles. The course is based on research that has emerged from the Low Energy Architecture Research Unit (LEARN) within the Faculty of Art, Architecture and Design. This unit was created in 1987 to bridge the gap between architecture and research in low energy design. Staff in LEARN have expertise in the field of low energy architecture, sustainability, lighting and daylighting, building thermal analysis, adaptive thermal comfort, overheating, environmental monitoring and post occupancy evaluation. Staff at LEARN are actively engaged in a wide range of research and dissemination of the activities of the MSc and PhD students including Visiting Researchers from many parts of the world. You will have access to a range of environmental simulation software, which is complemented by facilities for testing and simulating different environmental conditions using physical models, including a lighting laboratory equipped with an artificial sky and heliodon.

Course Duration

NumberDuration
1year

Career outcomes

This course equips you with the practical and theoretical skills required by the construction and design industry to achieve goals of reducing carbon dioxide emissions and ensure steps are taken towards adapting buildings to the impact of climate change. Skills are developed in a range of different methodologies for evaluating environmental conditions and predicting the effects of design solutions. Throughout the programme you will benefit from strong links with industry professionals both nationally and internationally. Past graduates have found employment in leading environmental consultancies and architectural practices, for instance ARUP, AECOM, Mott Macdonald, GIA, Foster and Partners, Grimshaw, ZEDFactory and Zaha Hadid to name a few. Those who wish to take their research further can go on to take a PhD program. We have highly qualified Staff (Professors and Doctors) with extensive MSc and PhD supervision experience. Check our LEARN page for further details.




Architecture, Energy and Sustainability (MSc) London Metropolitan University-L68