Buildings for People | Adeiladau ar gyfer Pobl
Schedule
Mon, 06 Oct, 2025 at 10:00 am to Fri, 10 Oct, 2025 at 01:00 pm
UTC+01:00Location
Centre for Alternative Technology Machynlleth Powys Wales SY20 9AZ, SY20 9AZ Machynlleth, United Kingdom | Machynlleth, WA
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Join a CAT student teaching week and delve into the complex relationship between finding buildings comfortable, energy flows in buildings and energy-efficient building design.Through a series of lectures, discussions, and practical activities you will learn alongside our postgraduate students on our MSc courses including Sustainability and Behaviour Change and in Sustainability in Energy Provision and Demand Management.
Taking this module as a short course, you will experience what it likes to study on one of our postgraduate courses at CAT and gain invaluable knowledge and skills around the wider implications of the sustainable adaptations and transformational changes needed to address the climate and biodiversity emergency.
---Key information---
Duration: five days
Upcoming dates: Monday 6 October – Friday 10 October
Start and finish times: starts at 10am and ends at 1pm on the last day
Fees: £700
Includes: tuition, all materials, lunch
Please note that accommodation is NOT currently available at CAT for this course. Spaces may be released once students have booked their accommodation in September.
What to bring: good boots and waterproof clothing is advised
---Who this course is aimed at---
This week is aimed at people who wish to have a taster of studying at postgraduate level at CAT and want to be better able to understand how we can design more energy-efficient sustainable homes and buildings that will meet our demands in the face of the climate crisis.
---What you will learn---
This short course help participants to develop critical and systematic approaches to critically appraise the energy-efficient design and approaches we can take to create thermally comfortable energy-efficient buildings.
Topics covered include:
Thermal comfort
Heat transfers through building fabric, determination of U values
Ventilation
Sunlight and solar gain
Passive cooling
Thermal mass
Impact of moisture on building fabric
Climate influences on design and future climate change considerations for this
Quantification of building performance
Embodied energy and carbon of building materials
Building energy management
Aspects of human health and wellbeing in relation to above topics of study
Societal benefits of energy-efficient buildings
---How will you learn---
Through pre-reading and some pre-recorded introductory lectures, live in person lectures, discussions, group activities and practical activities at CAT.
This short course is part of the teaching week for the MSc module Energy Flows in Building and Buildings for People.
Please be aware there may be some activities and content during the week only available to students, where an activity isn’t appropriate for the short course attendee, we will endeavour to arrange a replacement activity.
Learn more👇
https://cat.org.uk/event/building-for-people/
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Where is it happening?
Centre for Alternative Technology Machynlleth Powys Wales SY20 9AZ, SY20 9AZ Machynlleth, United Kingdom, Nora's Pub, Machynlleth, SY20 9, United KingdomEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
