BILD 422 Sustainable Building Design and Performance Assignment 2, 2026

BILD422 Assignment 2

General

This project is focused on the creation and documentation of a process for early design analysis of a real design project. It is intended to be part I of a two-part process. Part II will be Assignment 3, which is the development of a systematic way of examining multiple design options via (cloud-based?) parametric analysis based on the design analysis tools developed in this assignment. In Assignment 2 you will examine to an appropriate depth, at a minimum, the design analysis topics explored by your class in project 1 and relevant to the IBPSA modelling competition. You will explore, by applying research analytical techniques to a design, the important construction parameters in the design of a real building at preliminary design stage in New South Wales, Australia. The goal will be to identify how to construct an early design analysis process that shows where the greatest potential exists: 1) for improvement in the achievement of a zero carbon operational goal; 2) for improvement of the embodied carbon investment in the project; and 3) for improvement of the well-being and performance of the occupiers of the building.

The goal of Assignment 3, will be to build a process that might examine multiple design options rapidly through parametric analysis, rather than the one-off design options explored in Project 2.

Aims of The Project

The aim of this Research Paper is to provide students with the practice at reasoning a case based upon sound building science theory and evidence gathered through empirical test or equivalent.

Course learning objectives

Students who pass this course should be able to:

1. Select appropriate building design and research responses to their choice of sustainable engineering systems and associated building performance.

2. Present their work orally in a succinct, but detailed manner appropriate to a situation.

3. Present their work graphically and in writing in reports that convey technical concepts in a manner appropriate to the audience.

4. Critique others’ and their own work, using evidence, logic and appropriate professional behaviour.

Submission

Report of approximately 4000 words documenting the results of a Sustainable Engineering Systems Investigation of a Design

Contents to include:

• Documentation of the modelling tool and model used to test the building
  performance
• Description, based on the class literature reviews, of the likely design alternatives to be explored in Assignment 3, identifying how the model has been built to facilitate this exploration
• Quantitative identification of the important construction or form features
  affecting the building performance

To be submitted electronically via blackboard

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