Current active subject description (last updated 2024/25)
Livestock Housing 2
HUS2001
Current active subject description (last updated 2024/25)
Livestock Housing 2
HUS2001
The course deals with planning of buildings for livestock production, focusing on the keeping of cattle, pigs, sheep, goats and horses. This includes:
- material and construction choices in buildings for livestock
- choice of mechanization
- building layouts and space requirements
- outdoor installations
- building costs
- construction management
- drawing technique
Introduction to drawing techniques by hand and on data, and a central part of the course is a project assignment where students apply acquired knowledge and skills to plan and present a building for livestock production.
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 thorough knowledge of area requirements for animals, equipment for indoor mechanizing of livestock buildings and requirements for storage facilities.
- has knowledge of the work environment and risk factors in and around livestock facilities
- has knowledge of key research and development work in the subject area
Skills:
- can apply drawing techniques from hand-sketching to 3D-drawing using DAC (Data-Assisted Construction)
- has knowledge of various construction principles and mechanization for livestock buildings and is able to discuss the selecting of livestock building solutions
- can create situation plans in which the building is adjusted to the terrain and other buildings
General competence:
- can design buildings for keeping livestock and present alternative plans in the form of drawings, descriptions and calculations
- has the expertise to compose building solutions within a financial framework in accordance with regulations and recommendations
Paid semester fee and syllabus literature. It is also required that students have a laptop at their disposal.
Compulsory
Lectures, drawing lessons, exercises and excursions. In addition, there is a larger individual project assignment with designing of a livestock building for a selected animal species.
Evaluated annually by students through course surveys. These evaluations are included in the university’s quality assurance system.
Compound assessment, letter grades
- Work requirement 1 - 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.
- Work requirement 2 - Drawing of a farm building using DAK software, comprises 0/100 of the grade, grading scale approved/ not approved. Must be passed prior to submission of the written examination.
- Work requirement 3 - After further description, a preliminary project that forms the basis for the project assignment in the subject, comprises 0/100 of the grade, grading scale approved/ not approved. Must be passed prior to submission of the written examination.
- Written assignment, comprises 100/100 of the grade, letter grades.
Written assignment: All aids.
Generating an answer using ChatGPT or similar artificial intelligence and submitting it wholly or partially as one's own answer is considered cheating.
HUS1000 Livestock Environment and Welfare or similar and HUS2000 Livestock housing 1.
Subject language
Norwegian
Credits
10
Study location
Steinkjer
Responsible faculty
Faculty of Biosciences and Aquaculture
Course coordinator
