Advanced Building Technology

Course Code
ARC235
Course Title
Advanced Building Technology
Course Description

This course aims to introduce students to advanced building construction systems & technologies and the means of deploying them in buildings. The first part of the course deals with long-span structures, building envelopes, modular construction, advanced building construction technology, advanced façades construction, sustainable materials, mechanization, and robotics. While the second part of the course discusses the use of Virtual Reality (VR) & Building Information Modeling (BIM) in construction visualization. The practical part of the course will assist students in using BIM &VR tools to produce and visualize a building construction System.

Prerequisites
ARC234
Credits
3
Course Type
Theory, Studio
Offered
Spring