Sustainable Design

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Sustainable Design

Students in this year-long course will learn about sustainability as they go through the process of designing and building a structure for a specific location and purpose. Students will use Computer-Aided Design (CAD) to design a structure, research the building site’s geographic location, harness environmental resources for power and energy, research environmentally-friendly building materials, and build a scale model of the structure.

By the end of the course, students should know how engineers are playing a part in sustainability in the world today, and what they can do as adults to incorporate sustainability into their homes and towns. This course will challenge students to shift their thinking about current practices in building and design, as well as how they look at the designed world. Sustainable Design meets a graduation requirement for Practical Arts.