Subject description for 2024/25
Livestock Housing 1
HUS2000
Subject description for 2024/25

Livestock Housing 1

HUS2000

The course provides an introduction to the following subject areas ralated to livestock buildings:

  • building materials
  • building construction
  • indoor machanization and logistics
  • ventilation and heat balance
  • economics of investment
  • building regulations

The subject is reserved for students of the following study programmes:

  • Animal Sciences - Welfare and Production, Bachelor’s Programme

Other students can get admitted if there are places available. Contact student advisor. 

Students must meet current admission requirements for the associated study program.

After completing the course, the student will have achieved the following learning outcomes:

Knowledge:

  • has knowledge of building materials, construction techniques, constructions and construction regulations for livestock buildings
  • has knowledge of equipment for indoor mechanization of livestock buildings
  • has knowledge of how air flows in a livestock room is affected by the ventilation technique
  • has knowledge of key research and development work in the subject area

Skills:

  • has knowledge of various construction principles for livestock buildings and be able to discuss choice of construction methods
  • can compose alternative lines of mechanization and calculate investment costs
  • can plan and dimention ventilation in livestock buildings and calculate heat balance

General competence:

  • have insight into alternative building and mechanization solutions for animal husbandry and can discuss solutions with professionals in the industry
  • has expertise in how the choice of materials and ventilation affects the indoor climate in farm buildings
Paid semester fee and syllabus literature. It is also required that students have a laptop at their disposal.
Compulsory
Lectures, exercises and excursion. The trip goes to companies, suppliers or farms that are relevant to issues we work with in the course.
Evaluated annually by students through course surveys. These evaluations are included in the university’s quality assurance system.

Compound assessment, letter grades

  • Work requirements - approved at least 75% of defined mandatory activities, comprises 0/100 of the grade, grading scale approved/ not approved. Must be passed prior to submission of the written examination.
  • Written examination, 3 hours, comprises 100/100 of the grade, letter grades.

Written school exam: Pen, ruler, up to 2 bilingual dictionaries and calculator

Generating an answer using ChatGPT or similar artificial intelligence and submitting it wholly or partially as one's own answer is considered cheating.