Doctor's degree Architecture High Performance Building - Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus

Doctor's degree Architecture High Performance Building from Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus is a Campus Ph.D Architecture And Related Services degree that prepares you for a Architecture career. Overview Building represents one of the largest, and most important industries in the world. The construction of commercial and residential buildings constitutes one third of all investment in the U.S. and buildings consume roughly 40% of all energy in the US economy. Innovations in materials, manufacturing, IT for building automation systems, solar and other renewable systems, LED lighting, and advances in the thermo-sciences need to be absorbed in the design and construction of new buildings and in the retrofit or rehabilitation of existing buildings . This requires a thorough understanding of their physical behavior, acquired through modeling and simulation. This enables us to study the effect of predicted behavior on technical performance and indoor environment and thus inform design decisions, at the product level as well as whole building scale. The technical performance of buildings is the result of the interplay of many components with complex physical behavior. Components and their assemblies are designed and their control orchestrated such that the performance targets of the overall system is reached. This involves the study of physical behavior of all interacting building components in various domains such as temperature, moisture, ventilation, light, and acoustics. It generates a need for constant discovery of new knowledge with respect to building performance in fields such as energy, sustainability, comfort, health, daylighting, productivity and other performance aspects. Advanced systems for optimal control, sensing, diagnostics and other, require our special attention as we move towards (net) zero energy buildings. High performance buildings rest on the premise that we are able to design, verify and guarantee the type of systems that meet the highest expectations of the client. In spite of advances, many significant challenges remain, e.g. to develop robust building design strategies that guarantee a required level of performance in the light of many uncontrollable uncertainties, optimal energy control and management strategies, especially at the interface of building and urban scale, flexible next generation simulation tools that can be rapidly deployed in the simulation driven design process; efficient human centric control strategies, and many other. View more details on Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Architecture And Related Services courses.