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Spring term counts from January - August, fall term counts from September - December.
Important for Exchange Students: As the Full-Time and Part-Time MBA Programs utilize a modular course structure, the dates on which students begin and end the exchange are flexible. Please find here a chronological overview of the preliminary course offering for Fall and Spring.
Sustainability in the Building Sector
(Please note that exchange students obtain a higher number of credits in the BSc-program at WHU than listed here. For further information please contact directly the International Relations Office.)
Course Content
These and other questions will be discussed in your course on Sustainability in the Building Sector. We will look at sustainability issues in the building industry from a holistic perspective, covering economic, social, and ecological aspects. A particular focus will be set on negative externalities in the value chain of the building industry and how they can be recognized and avoided.
The course comprises skills, methods, and concepts to consider different approaches towards sustainability, to understand them, and to align them for reaching sustainable solutions. Such competencies are indispensable in every building, construction, and real estate project that takes energy efficiency and other sustainability criteria as balancing economic, social, ecological, and cultural aspects in responsibility for future generations into account.
These competencies are not limited to the building sector though, as the things we will discuss about in class and the concepts, frameworks and skills that you will acquire are applicable to other industrial contexts, too. Therefore, this course will help you to prepare for today’s careers in green building and sustainability industries.
This taught in a lab format. Students are expected to interact, ask questions and comment on the research findings presented.
In the first lecture of the course, I will give an introduction to sustainability issues and a glance at the building sector. I will cover the questions: (1) Why are we bothered with sustainability (in the building sector)? (2) What are the industries special circumstances? (3) What are the Hidden Costs of this industry?
I will approach these questions from a philosophical and applied (case based) perspective.
Students will then choose a topic for their video project (65% of the grade), in which they are required to spotlight hidden costs in the building sector.
In an applied case study (35% of the grade), students will dive deeper into sustainability issues in the circular economy.
Class Dates
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Learning Methods
- Lecturing
- Case work
- Group and individual work
- Guest lectures