Building Envelope Design

Gain building envelope design skills with this online course and create energy efficient, sustainable buildings that cut costs.

Learn about the considerations for the building envelope for an energy-efficient and thermally comfortable design!

Identify key principles of building envelope design by evaluating options for correct orientation, site selection and building morphology
Learn about the common materials and the types of openings to best design heating and cooling in a building
Incorporate indices and standards for an aesthetically pleasing design that is compliant to modern energy regulation standards

Designing the Building Envelope for Energy Efficiency

Building envelope design greatly impacts a building’s thermal comfort and energy efficiency. When meticulously designed, the building envelope can be an effective barrier to outside heat or cold, maintaining an indoor temperature that is within a comfortable range regardless of external weather conditions. By minimising unwanted heat gain in the summer and heat loss in winter, a building envelope designed for thermal comfort reduces the need for active heating and cooling. This results in significant energy savings and contributes to environmental sustainability by reducing the building’s carbon footprint.

What you’ll learn

Orienting buildings to maximize natural light and minimise heat gain or loss based on the local climate.
Selecting building sites that enhance energy efficiency and thermal comfort.
Design strategies that use solar energy for heating and cooling
Building envelope elements and their role in thermal performance
Calculating and estimating heating and cooling load
Indices that describe the thermal performance of the building envelope, envelope materials, openings or other fenestrations

Building Envelope Design Course Description

This course on Building Envelope Design essentially discusses the principles and practices for enhancing thermal comfort and energy efficiency in buildings through careful planning of the building envelope. The building has to be strategically placed to consider the climate, or at least the path of the sun. Key components such as envelope materials and types of openings are explored for their impact on reducing heat gain in summer and minimising heat loss in winter. Learn how considerations for the building envelope and ventilation can help determine and assess the HVAC requirements of a building. This course also covers the indices and standards that ensure compliance with building codes.

The ultimate goal is for the building design to be climate-responsive and energy efficient. When a building is designed with energy efficiency in mind, it contributes to environment-saving efforts to minimise the need for mechanical heating or cooling, thereby reducing a building’s carbon footprint.

CPD / CEU / PDH / CEP / CPC

Continuing Education (CE) or Continuing Professional Development (CPD) refers to additional formal learning activities that are required to maintain a professional certification or accreditation.

CE or CPD comes in many names but represents the same thing. Here are some of them that may be used in your country:

CPD – Continuing Professional Development
CEU – Continuing Education Units
PDH – Professional Development Hours
CEP – Continuing Education Programs
CPC – Continuing Professional Competency

Many of our courses provide Continuing Professional Development credits, points, hours, or units. To learn more about Continuing Education and Continuing Professional Development, please read here.

Certification

When you pass all the quizzes in this course, you’ll get a certificate of achievement on course completion, with a QR code that when scanned validates its authenticity. Use this certificate to demonstrate to employees and others your growing sustainability credentials!

This Course Is Perfect For:

Architecture Students
Engineering Students
Architecture Trainers and Educators
Architects
Interior Designer

This course is best for people aspiring to specialize in the sustainable building sector. Professionals with training in designing buildings that operate with very low energy consumption and carbon footprint are in high demand because buildings are now required to be climate-responsive and because of the huge savings in operational costs.

If you want to design or build establishments that do not require too much power while maintaining a standard level of comfort and function like any well-built building, please enroll in this course.

Why Enroll in Building Envelope Design

The training course on Building Envelope Design is aimed at building the skill sets of building science professionals, specifically on sustainable building design. This online course is the next logical step to adding more value to formal education and provides professionals with knowledge of the current developments in the field.

The creator of this course is Dr. Roshni Udyavar Yehuda, an academician and practicing architect with a Ph.D. in Resource Management on structural configuration and thermal behavior of buildings. Dr. Yehuda, an empaneled expert on the Energy Conservation Building Code of India, has more than 20 years of academic and professional experience. She has traveled to more than 20 countries to lend her expertise in energy-efficient and environmental design of buildings.

This course contains tools and approaches that have been proven effective as they have been drawn from Dr. Yehuda’s extensive experience on the subject.