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Sustainable Building Investigation

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RMIT University
RMIT University
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Priya Rajagopalan
Professor
2
Timeline
  • March 30, 2022
    Experience start
  • March 31, 2022
    Project Scope Meeting
  • May 31, 2022
    Experience end
Experience
1/1 project matches
Dates set by experience
Preferred companies
Anywhere
Any
Any industries

Experience scope

Categories
Skills
data analysis research
Learner goals and capabilities

This is a final semester course for the Master of Energy Efficient and Sustainable Building Programme. Students will do a project based on topics around sustainable buildings. This course includes a work integrated learning experience in which the knowledge and skills gained will be applied and assessed in a real or simulated workplace context and where feedback from industry and/ or community is integral to student experience. the project will be supervised by an academic staff.

Learners

Learners
Graduate
Any level
15 learners
Project
100 hours per learner
Learners self-assign
Individual projects
Expected outcomes and deliverables

A report - around 10000 words

presentation

Project timeline
  • March 30, 2022
    Experience start
  • March 31, 2022
    Project Scope Meeting
  • May 31, 2022
    Experience end

Project Examples

Requirements

Students in this course have previously undertaken these projects - please use as food for thought:

  • An investigation into the performance and overheating risks of Passive house dwellings under future climate scenarios in Melbourne.
  • Investigating materials to improve airtightness in a Victorian House to comply with Passive House Standards
  • Comparison of Energy Performance of a Single-Family Passive House and Typical Residential Home in Melbourne
  • Investigation the implications of bushfire smoke on IAQ in the residential sectors in Victoria, Melbourne
  • A new energy-efficient design for incremental social housing in Brazil
  • Mitigating Urban heat island impact to reduce the fossil fuel dependency of Institutional buildings
  • Improving the Urban Quality Life in Employment Precincts by Adopting Biophilic Design -
  • Comparative assessment of the National Construction Code: Current against (proposed) NCC 2022 for Class 1 Buildings
  • Identifying the strategies used in sustainable single dwellings across Melbourne, Victoria

Additional company criteria

Companies must answer the following questions to submit a match request to this experience:

  • Q - Checkbox