Description

The economic context is an important factor in building design and management decisions, because scarce resources (capital, land, labor) must be allocated and invested in order to construct buildings. Architects can make decisions to save initial capital cost and reduce longer-term expenses of buildings. This course main goal is to integrate economics with architectural building design.

Program

M.Sc. in Architectural Engineering and Environemental Design

Objectives

•  To make the student obtain sensitivity for the relative importance of the many factors influencing the cost and the buildings, also  To gain practical experience assessing building value at various stages in the design process (feasibility analysis, cost estimating and life cycle cost analysis).