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CIV-E6010 - Sustainability and Circular Economy in Civil Engineering, Lecture, 8.1.2024-21.2.2024

Please note! Course description is confirmed for two academic years, which means that in general, e.g. Learning outcomes, assessment methods and key content stays unchanged. However, via course syllabus, it is possible to specify or change the course execution in each realization of the course, such as how the contact sessions are organized, assessment methods weighted or materials used.

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
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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