Unit Code: EVH519

Unit Name: Built Environment and Health

Description: This course is designed to provide an understanding on how the built environment impacts health both positively and negatively. The advancement of the field of built environment contains elements that are strongly positive for both current and future health, all successes contain within them dangers and the seeds for failure. A genuine danger is that health issues may become the next mere design fad, and just as new buildings and developments are being “greenwashed”, so “healthwashing” may erode substantive improvements to health and the built environment. While the future of BEH efforts will succeed or fail depending on the cogency of data and clarity of the messaging by future practitioners of public health, urban planning, architecture, business, law and related fields.

Learning Target Outcomes: On successful completion of this course, the students will be able to : 1. Explain the concepts and what comprises of a healthy Built Environment 2. Discuss the relationship of specific environmental factors on the built environment 3. Discuss the impacts of pollution on the built environment. 4. Compare the various building laws and regulatory frameworks with ethical considerations. 5. Identify the processes, tools and outcomes of planning that lead to more sustainable places across the built environment. 6. Explain the impacts of weather and climate on buildings.

Prerequisite: NA

Prerequisite Sentence: N/A

Credit Point: 15

Offered In: Semester 2