SOLA3010

Low Energy Buildings and Photovoltaics
Contents

3. Course details 2

Credit points 2

4. Teaching strategies 4

5. Course schedule 5

Online Quizzes (15%) 6

Assignment (Total 40%) 6

Calculators 8

Special consideration and supplementary assessment 8

9. Academic honesty and plagiarism 10

10. Administrative matters and links 11

Staff contact details

Contact details and consultation times for course convenor

Email: a.sproul@unsw.edu.au

Moodle: https://moodle.telt.unsw.edu.au/

Online Consultations: Thursday 3 – 4 pm

Contact details and consultation times for additional lecturers/demonstrators/lab staff

Important links

• Student Resources

• UNSW Timetable

Course details

Credit points

The normal workload expectations of a student are approximately 25 hours per term for each UOC, including class contact hours, other learning activities, preparation and time spent on all assessable work.

You should aim to spend about 10 -13 h/w on this course. The additional time should be spent in making sure that you understand the lecture material, completing the set assignments, further reading, and revising for any examinations.

Pre-requisite and Assumed Knowledge

Contact hours

Summary and Aims of the course

Student learning outcomes

After successfully completing this course, you should be able to:

Teaching strategies

The teaching strategy for this course comprises a series of lectures and tutorial sessions. The lecture series will present theory related to understanding the relationship between building design and thermal and lighting performance, and human comfort.

Course schedule

Indicative Online Lecture Schedule

Indicative Online Tutorial Schedule

Assessment

Assessment overview

Assignments

Assessments

The assessment scheme in this course reflects the intention to assess your learning progress throughout the term. Submission will be via Moodle for the online quizzes and the assignment (PDF only, no hard copy submissions). The final examination will cover all material in the course.

Online Quizzes (15%)

Assignment (Total 40%)

Presentation

All submissions are expected to be neat and clearly set out. Your results are the pinnacle of all your hard work and should be treated with due respect. Presenting results clearly gives the marker the best chance of understanding your method: even if the numerical results are incorrect.

Submission

Work submitted late without an approved extension by the course coordinator or delegated authority is subject to a late penalty of 30 percent (30%) mark reduction on the first day and an additional 10% per day thereafter, consistent with other SPREE courses.

2. Online quizzes where answers are released to students on completion, or

3. Professional assessment tasks, where the intention is to create an authentic assessment that has an absolute submission date, or

Marking

Examinations

Please visit myUNSW for Provisional Examination timetable publish dates.

For further information on exams, please see the Exams webpage.

Calculators

Special consideration and supplementary assessment

Please note that UNSW now has a Fit to Sit / Submit rule, which means that if you sit an exam or submit a piece of assessment, you are declaring yourself fit enough to do so and cannot later apply for Special Consideration.

For details of applying for Special Consideration and conditions for the award of supplementary assessment, please see the information on UNSW’s Special Consideration page.

Expected resources for students

Reference Books

• Thermodynamics: An Engineering Approach – Y.A. Cengel, M.A. Boles (useful for psychrometry)

• Energy Efficiency Building Design – Resource Book – Brisbane TAFE – Holger Willrath

Online Resources

• Moodle: https://moodle.telt.unsw.edu.au/login/index.php

Climate Information

• Rocky Mountains Institute: http://www.rmi.org/Buildings

• Victorian Energy Smart Housing Manual: http://www.aprbuildingservices.com.au/C1_Energy_Smart_Housing.html

Design Tools

• SAM – Software for photovoltaic Systems: https://sam.nrel.gov/

• Bear iD (Netherlands): http://bear-id.com/

• Solar Design Associates (US) http://www.solardesign.com/

Standards and Rating Frameworks & Software

• Building Code of Australia - via UNSW Library (sirius)

• BASIX: http://www.basix.nsw.gov.au/information/index.jsp

Course evaluation and development

Feedback on the course is gathered periodically using various means, including the UNSW myExperience process, informal discussion in the final class for the course, and the School’s Student/Staff meetings. Your feedback is taken seriously, and continual improvements are made to the course based, in part, on such feedback.

Academic honesty and plagiarism

Plagiarism is a type of intellectual theft. It can take many forms, from deliberate cheating to accidentally copying from a source without acknowledgement. UNSW has produced a website with a wealth of resources to support students to understand and avoid plagiarism, visit: student.unsw.edu.au/plagiarism. The Learning Centre assists students with understanding academic integrity and how not to plagiarise. They also hold workshops and can help students one-on-one.

You are also reminded that careful time management is an important part of study and one of the identified causes of plagiarism is poor time management. Students should allow sufficient time for research, drafting and the proper referencing of sources in preparing all assessment tasks.

Administrative matters and links

• Attendance

• UNSW Email Address

• Equitable Learning Services

Appendix A: Engineers Australia (EA) Competencies

Stage 1 Competencies for Professional Engineers