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Building Environment

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 229-0102/04
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.

Subject syllabus

1. Thermal technical assessment of building structures and buildings - current valid regulations and standards in the Czech Republic and abroad.
2. Heat propagation. Basic principles and laws. Principles of optimal thermal comfort of indoor spaces and their mutual attributes.
3. Thermal technical properties of building materials and their mutual relationships. Sustainable building materials.
4. Steady temperature state. Heat transfer coefficient, thermal resistance and surface temperatures of structures. Thermal bridges in building structures.
5. Humidity regime, annual balance of condensed and evaporated water vapor.
6. Thermal absorption of floor structures, sample designs of floor
structure compositions.
7. Unsteady temperature state, thermal stability in winter.
8. Thermal stability in summer.
9. Energy assessment of residential, civil and industrial buildings.
10. Provisions for ensuring optimal energy performance of buildings.
11. Additional insulation, basic principles, suitable materials.
12. Transparent elements of the external envelope and their technical parameters.
13. External and roof envelopes in the Czech Republic and abroad. The influence of green facades on the thermal properties of structures.

Literature

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.

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.