The course program handles the learning process required to obtain a consistent knowledge over the practice of environmental control techniques toward the accomplishment of a project driven by a strong architectural design for the production and management of buildings, urban spaces and infrastructures, introducing a further validation methodology, given by computational methods applied to different building typologies and to different environment conditions.

An extensive variety of suites and software applications will be described and applied in relation to the definition of energy ratings and asset rating, the frequency of the calculation methodology (simplified or detailed), the discrepancy between new or existing buildings, the layout of the energy performance certificate, the mutual relation between energy performance and indoor environment quality.