ABSTRACT
In response to a growing awareness of the environmental impacts of construction, a new rmdergraduate course - Environmental Science in Building Construction - was developed and incorporated into architectural engineering and construction management programs at Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE). This senior-level required course is offered concurrently with senior design. Course development included surveying the AGCof Greater Milwaukee and completing a NSF sponsored project to assess environmental impacts of a campus construction project. Course elements include introducing students to drivers of the sustainable construction movement (climate change, ozone depletion, environmental degradation and resource depletion); introducing students to the LEED™ suite of standards and scientific evidence that ILEED1™strategies reduce environmental impacts; and requiring students to complete a research project on technologies that have the potential to reduce environmental impacts. If environmental impacts of construction are to be reduced, future engineers must understand a wide range of sustainability-related issues.
