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Ukončeno v akademickém roce 2020/2021

Building Environment

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 229-0101/04
Abbreviation PSt
Course title Building Environment
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Building Environment and Building Services
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Iveta Skotnicová, Ph.D.

Osnova předmětu

Lecture Warp:
1. Heat transfer processes of conduction, convection, radiation. Fourier's laws. Parameters of internal and external microclimate.
2. Building materials and their thermal properties – density, thermal conductivity coefficient, specific heat kapacity, diffusion conductivity factor.
3. Heat transfer – thermal resistence, U-value (Heat thermal transmittance value).
4. The lowest internal surface temperature. Temperature factor at the internal surface.
5. Thermal bridges and connections. Two-dimensional heat flow.
6. Linear and point thermal transmittance.
7. Humidity transfer - vapour diffusion, diffusion resistance, factor of diffusion resistance, balance of condensation and evaporation.
8. Air transfer - air permeability, coefficient of lenth join air permeability, space rate changing air.
9. Unsteady heat transfer – drop of contact temperature.
10. Thermal stability of the rooms in winter and summer conditions.
11. Heat transfer of building envelope - average transmission heat loss coefficient (average U-value).
12. Energy consumption. Building energy certificate.
13. Thermotechnical design of structural elements and buildings.
14. Thermotechnical survey of buildings. Low energy and passive buildings.
Exercises Warp:
1. Parameters of internal and external microclimate. Measuring of temperature and humidity of air.
2. Building materials and their thermal properties – measuring of density, thermal conductivity coefficient, specific heat kapacity, diffusion conductivity factor. Aword programme.
3. Calculations of thermal resistence and U-value for homogeneous constructions (one-dimensional heat flow).
4. Calculations of thermal resistence and U-value for constructions with thermal bridges (two-dimensional heat flow) – approximate methods.
5. Calculations of thermal resistence and U-value for constructions with thermal bridges (two-dimensional heat flow) – exact methods.
6. Calculations of temperature factor at the internal surface for homogeneous constructions and constructions with thermal bridges.
7. Linear and point thermal transmittance – calculation method of solving temperature field.
8. Calculation of balance of condensation and evaporation.
9. Calculation of drop of contact temperature.
10. Measuring of air transfer (blower door test).
11. Thermal stability of the rooms in winter and summer conditions.
12. Calculation of heat transfer of building envelope.
13. Calculation of energy consumption. Building energy certificate.
14. Credit

E-learning

Není

Povinná literatura

HENS, H. Applied Building Physics – Boundary Conditions, Building Performance and Material Properties. Berlin: Wilhelm Ernst Sohn, 2011. 308 p. ISBN 978-3-433-02962-6.
HENS, H. Building Physics – Heat, Air and Moisture – Fundamentals and Engineering Methods with Examples And Exercises. 2nd Edition, Berlin: Wilhelm Ernst Sohn, 2012. 315 p. ISBN 978-3-433-03027-1.
EN ISO 6946:2007 Building components and building elements -- Thermal resistance and thermal transmittance -- Calculation method.
The Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD, Directive 2010/31/EU).

Advised literature

Roaf, S., Hancock, M. Energy Efficiency Building, Blackwell, Oxford 1992.