Spring 2027

Sustainable Facilities

Sustainable Facilities examines how commercial and residential buildings affect the environment across their entire life cycle, using case studies, benchmarking tools, and public policy analysis.

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2020: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=8 letter grades); Fall 2022: 3.79 GPA, 89.5% A/AB (n=19 letter grades); Fall 2024: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=13 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Describe the environmental impacts of residential and commercial buildings

  • Explain the stages of the building life-cycle, identify the decision-makers, and analyze how the environmental impacts and opportunities change in each stage

  • Evaluate improvement strategies appropriate to each life-cycle stage of a building

  • Utilize benchmarking and analysis tools used in the building sector for environmental and energy performance

  • Compare and justify policies used to influence the building sector, and critique their effectiveness

  • Create and deliver a presentation on a selected green building strategy, citing resources and case studies

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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Student experience

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2020: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=8 letter grades); Fall 2022: 3.79 GPA, 89.5% A/AB (n=19 letter grades); Fall 2024: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=13 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Energy, water, materials, transportation, waste, human health, and land use impacts.
  • Building life cycle phases.
  • Case studies, benchmarking tools, public policies, and emerging concepts.

Skills

  • Analyze environmental impacts across energy, water, materials, transportation, waste, human health, and land use.
  • Use benchmarking and analysis tools for environmental and energy performance in the building sector.
  • Evaluate public policies that influence the building sector.
  • Deliver presentations on green building strategies using cited resources and case studies.

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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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