Sustainable Facilities

EPD 730: Sustainable Facilities explores the environmental impacts of buildings across all life cycle phases, covering energy, water, materials, and policy.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Fall 2026 Joy Altwies

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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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EPD 730

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Professors

Fall 2026

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).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

JOY ALTWIES is recorded teaching in Spring 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2020, Fall 2022, Fall 2024. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

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Calendar & sections

Fall 2026

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LEC 001Online Only7 / 150

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Student experience

the class

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

  • Environmental impacts of commercial and residential buildings
  • Resource use: energy, water, materials, transportation, waste, health, land use
  • Building life cycle phases
  • Case studies, benchmarking tools, public policies, and emerging concepts

Skills

  • Analyze environmental impacts of buildings across multiple resource domains
  • Evaluate building life cycle phases
  • Apply case studies, benchmarking tools, and policy analysis

Grades

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EPD 730 · Fall 2026

Sustainable Facilities

Recorded 2026-09-07
Raw records
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nvidia/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4
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