Syllabus

LEARNING OUTCOMES

After the course, the students are expected to:

• Understand the most important concepts of sustainability
• Understand the connections between sustainability and circular economy
• Know better about links between the different research groups and their research
• Know how to consider sustainability and circular economy in practical projects
• Create a professional identity as an expert and developer of the field
• Improve skills in project and group working in a design group and communication
• Learn to evaluate other’s work

Credits: 5

Schedule: 08.01.2024 - 21.02.2024

Teacher in charge (valid for whole curriculum period):

Teacher in charge (applies in this implementation): Weiwei Lin, Leena Korkiala-Tanttu

Contact information for the course (applies in this implementation):

CEFR level (valid for whole curriculum period):

Language of instruction and studies (applies in this implementation):

Teaching language: English. Languages of study attainment: English

CONTENT, ASSESSMENT AND WORKLOAD

Content

• valid for whole curriculum period:

  It provides the basic knowledge of sustainability, circular economy in civil engineering. This course can be connected to the other courses about sustainability at either Aalto University or other universities.

Assessment Methods and Criteria

• valid for whole curriculum period:

  The course grade consists of flipped classroom presentations and group projects and presentations. More details will be announced in the course syllabus and the first lecture. 

Workload

• valid for whole curriculum period:

  Teaching sessions, flipped classroom presentations, and group project work, etc.

DETAILS

Substitutes for Courses

• valid for whole curriculum period:

  Substitutes for Courses

Prerequisites

• valid for whole curriculum period:

  Prerequisites

SDG: Sustainable Development Goals

9 Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

11 Sustainable Cities and Communities

12 Responsible Production and Consumption

13 Climate Action

FURTHER INFORMATION

Further Information

• valid for whole curriculum period:

  Teaching Language : English

  Teaching Period : 2022-2023 Spring III
  2023-2024 Spring III

  Enrollment :

  40 participants. Priorities will be given to CIV and GEO students in the Department of Civil Engineering.
  

  Following pritorities are accepted on 11th December 2023:
  

  1. Second-year* (or higher) master’s students in both Building Technology (CIV) or Geoengineering (GEO) master’s programmes

  2. Doctoral students in both Building technology or Geoengineering

  3. Exchange students to both Building Technology (CIV) or Geoengineering (GEO) master’s programme

  4. First-year* master’s students in both Building Technology (CIV) or Geoengineering (GEO) master’s programmes

  5. Other exchange students or students from other programmes/universities etc.

  *) if needed, study credits can be used to arrange the students.

Details on the schedule

• applies in this implementation

  Week	Date	Teacher / advisor	Topic
  1	8/1/2024	Weiwei Lin	Introduction, grouping, assignment of FCs
  	12/1/2024	Elina Salo-Miilumäki	Lecture 1 Biodiversity and nature-based solutions for structural engineering
  2	15/1/2024	Leena Korkiala-Tanttu	Lecture 2 Circular economy
  	19/1/2024	Matti Kuittinen	Lecture 3 Resource flows and planetary boundaries
  3	22/1/2024	Jouni Punkki	FC1 Environmental Product Declarations (EPD)
  	26/1/2024	Gerhard Fink	FC2 Design for Disassembly and Reuse – Timber Connection Systems
  4	29/1/2024	Andrea Ferrantelli & Xiaoshu Lu	FC3 Energy renovations, such as enhancing energy efficiency during the renovation process?
  	2/2/2024	Mohamed Noureldin & Weiwei Lin	FC4 Reuse and Recycling in deconstruction Project topic: LCA for buildings
  5	5/2/2024	Augusto Cannone Falchetto & Prof. Nina Raitanen	FC5 Recycling in Asphalt Pavement.
  	9/2/2024	Antti Peltokorpi and Olli Seppänen	FC6 Reducing CO2 emissions in construction phase
  6	12/2/2024	Heidi Salonen, Jarek Kurnitski, and Camilla Vornanen-Winqvist	FC7 Sustainability in indoor environment
  	16/2/2024	Simo Hostikka	FC8 New energy carriers and safety of built environment
  	Group 9	Sanandam Bordoloi & Leena Korkiala-Tanttu	FC9 Recyclability in infraconstruction   The idea is to offer more topics (floating topics) than required (8 groups in the end). If any group has very few students (0-1), it may be cancelled or combined, resulting in only 8 groups.
  7	21/2/2024	All	Final presentation session. Feedback discussion of the course. Self-assessment of group work.

  
  

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