Graduate Diploma in Energy Efficient and Sustainable Building

Program Overview

The Graduate Diploma in Energy Efficient and Sustainable Building provides advanced training in sustainable building design, technologies, and management. Through a multidisciplinary approach, it equips professionals with the skills to address critical issues in the built environment, emphasizing research and innovation. The program offers flexible study options (full-time or part-time) and utilizes a variety of teaching methods, including workshops, lectorials, and project work. Graduates are prepared for careers in sustainable building design, project management, and consulting.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

The Graduate Diploma in Energy Efficient and Sustainable Building is designed to provide an intensive, multidisciplinary environment for the advanced study of the science, design technologies, and management of sustainable buildings. The program focuses on the role of design research and innovative design practice in addressing critical issues associated with the sustainability of the built environment. It emphasizes the application of theoretical knowledge to practice and will build your capability to respond to emerging issues, trends in the field, as well as to manage organizational needs through your developed skills and knowledge.

Outline:

Program Content:

• Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer for Building Science
• Building Systems
• Sustainability in the built environment: A focus on building and design
• Introduction to Project Management
• Research Design and Methods
• Sustainable Building Technologies
• Energy Moisture and Airflow in Buildings
• Project Management Techniques

Structure:

• Full-time: 1 year
• Part-time: 2 years

Assessment:

Assessment is designed to provide opportunities to demonstrate capabilities. It will include a range of activities such as report writing, written reflection, project-based work, problem-solving, presentations, peer or industry review. Students can expect to undertake case studies, project reports, assignments, presentations, and design projects. Ongoing feedback will be provided by lecturers and peers to enhance learning as students continue to refine their capabilities for future professional practice and learning after graduation.

Teaching:

This diploma uses a variety of teaching approaches, including workshops, lectorials, and residential intensives, in conjunction with project work, team-based activities, and work-integrated learning. Studies combine face-to-face learning environments and online delivery, enhanced by a range of resources. As a student of this diploma, you will learn to:

• Analyze and apply sustainable building theory and principles to industry issues, and implement new directions in sustainable building design
• Communicate your ideas and strategies, justifying decisions to diverse stakeholders
• Employ your knowledge to develop solutions that respond to the diverse needs of sustainable building project stakeholders
• Critically examine and reflect on your work, and sustainable building theory, to question accepted building solutions, design strategies, design practices, and decision-making approaches
• Apply appropriate research methods, tools, and technical skills to plan and evaluate projects.

Careers:

This diploma is designed for advanced professional development and specialization for engineers, project managers, landscape architects, and other design professionals working with the built environment. Graduates may pursue many professional pathways, including work in private practice, state or local government, or in private practice as a consultant to building design or property development projects.