Sustainable Materials

Sustainable Materials is a course with a major emphasis on the appropriateness and sustainability of materials for construction projects program. It overviews a wide range of contemporary materials in the context of sustainability and examines metrics for their assessment. In addition, this course explores the main principles of such materials that guide modern science and technology toward sustainable construction projects program. Learning Sustainable Materials heavily relies on real-life examples and taps into current practices of technical analysis. This course goes beyond understanding the background, fostering critical thinking, and challenging the students to draw connections between social, environmental, and economic aspects of sustainable technologies.