TECHNOLOGY IV

Credit Hours: 3 · Undergraduate Upper-Level Course URL: www.arch.rice.edu/academics/current-courses

This course addresses building environmental systems including power, water, and wastewater with an emphasis on air condition systems. Through multimedia presentations and fieldtrips, students are taught to analyze the thermal environment in a variety of building types and select equipment to meet these needs. Sustainability issues related to environmental systems such as energy conservational and life cycle costs are also addressed. This is the fourth required course in the architectural technology sequence. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 516 . Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 316 if student has credit for ARCH 516 .