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BCT Summer and Fall Continuing Education Courses and Events at Mount Ida Campus in Newton Announced

April 3, 2019April 3, 2019 by Alexander Schreyer Comment Closed

BCT is again offering continuing education courses and professional-focused events at UMass Amherst's new Mount Ida Campus in Newton, MA. Extend your knowledge and expand your professional horizon with BCT’s continuing education courses. Join us for convenient after-work in-person courses or learn online at your own pace. Continuing Education Courses and Academic Programs Our upcoming courses (at Mount Ida, online, or in Amherst) are: Sustainable Building and LEED Certification (Summer 2019) Online| BCT 414 (undergraduate) Instructor: Ho-Sung Kim | 3 credits | Course details | Register Sustainable Building and LEED Certification (Summer 2019) Online| ECO 697DL (graduate) Instructor: Ho-Sung Kim | 3 credits | Course details | Register Introduction to Building Energy Modeling (Fall 2019) Mount Ida Campus | BCT 597BE Instructor: Peter Levy | 3 credits | In-Person | Course details | Register Legal Aspects of Architecture, Engineering, and the Construction Process (Fall 2019) Mount Ida Campus | BCT 597N Instructor: Steve O’Neill, Esq. | 3 credits | Hybrid (In-Person + Online) | Course details | Register Legal Aspects of Architecture, Engineering, and the Construction Process (Fall 2019) Amherst Campus | BCT 597N Instructor: Steve O’Neill, Esq. | 3 credits | Hybrid (In-Person + Online) | Course...

Register Now for BCT’s Spring 2019 Continuing Education Courses at UMass’ Mount Ida Campus

December 20, 2018December 20, 2018 by Alexander Schreyer Comment Closed

Starting with the Spring Semester 2019, BCT will be offering courses at the new Mount Ida Campus of UMass Amherst in Newton, MA. For this first semester, we provide two courses that target continuing education students and professionals that are interested in furthering their education in sustainable construction and building technology. The following 3-credit, semester-long courses are available for registration now. Start date for the semester is January 22, 2019. Legal Aspects of Architecture, Engineering, and the Construction Process (BCT 597N) Legal issues arising from design and construction services, with a practical focus on risk management and liability awareness. Topical areas include basic legal doctrines, contract documents, contract administration, liens & bonds, claims, professional liability, human resources, legal evidence & recordkeeping, and dispute resolution. The course will also touch on the special legal challenges presented by technological, scientific, and cultural developments including sustainability, BIM/VDC, mass timber, automation, and climate change. Instructor: Steven J. O’Neill, Esq. High Performance Building: Issues and Perspectives (BCT 597Q) This course examines...

BCT’s ‘False Color’ Exhibit is Open!

October 10, 2017October 10, 2017 by Alexander Schreyer Comment Closed

From now to October 28th, 2017, UMass students, faculty, and the general public are invited to visit the UMass Design Building Gallery during opening hours (9am - 4pm on weekdays) to view BCT's latest exhibition on all things related to "False Color" visualizations. Showcasing work by our faculty and graduate students, this exhibition visually (and interactively) explores the various technologies of our research: stress analysis, energy analysis, thermography, laser scanning, and more... BCT would like to especially thank Trimble Inc. for their support through our Trimble Technology Lab. We are also tremendously grateful to Peter Chrzanowski, Sharon Mehrman, and Alexander Okscin for their invaluable hands-on help in putting this exhibition together. The following synopsis explains our thoughts on this exhibition: As engineers, scientists and designers we are often faced with data that is not immediately comprehensible in its raw form, consisting solely of numeric values and ranges. Either the volume of such data is too large to lend itself to easy evaluation or it is too limited...

Spring 2017 BCT Lecture Series Announced

March 13, 2017March 13, 2017 by Alexander Schreyer Comment Closed

We just finalized the spring 2017 BCT lecture series. See below for this semester's lineup that focuses on various aspects related to our new home, the Design Building. BCT LECTURE: ELECTROCHROMIC GLASS IN THE DESIGN BUILDING Aaron Smith, View Inc. March 3, 2017 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm Links: Facebook - Calendar BCT LECTURE: DESIGN BUILDING – THE JOURNEY FROM CONCEPT TO REALITY David Billings and Martin Goulet, Hill International March 28, 2017 @ 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm Links: Facebook - Calendar BCT LECTURE: MECHANICAL SYSTEMS IN THE DESIGN BUILDING – TALK & TOUR Ilona Prosol, Project Manager, BVH Integrated Services March 29, 2017 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Links: Facebook - Calendar BCT LECTURE: ENVELOPE STRATEGIES OF THE DESIGN BUILDING Marta Bouchard, Atelier 10 April 5, 2017 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm Links: Facebook - Calendar BCT LECTURE: TRIMBLE IN EDUCATION Roz Buick, Vice President, Buildings, Trimble April 25, 2017 @ 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm Links: Facebook - Calendar Poster BCT Lectures Spring 2017 Reposted from: https://bct.eco.umass.edu/news/spring-2017-bct-lecture-series-announced/...

Hoque’s IUMAT research featured on NextCity

March 8, 2016 by Alexander Schreyer Comment Closed

BCT Assistant Professor Simi Hoque's research into the "Integrated Urban Metabolism Analytical Tool" and her NSF CAREER award were just featured in a blog article on NextCity. Link: https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/math-tool-big-data-planning-solution Reposted from: https://bct.eco.umass.edu/news/hoques-iumat-research-featured-on-nextcity/...