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Design of Building Technical Equipment Systems

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 229-0308/01
Abbreviation PS TZB
Course title Design of Building Technical Equipment Systems
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Building Environment and Building Services
Course coordinator Ing. Petra Tymová, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. From the history of sanitary engineering, basic concepts, legislation.
2. Water sources in the Czech Republic, water saving solutions, drinking water supply, pressure zones of the internal water supply system.
3. Wastewater management methods, central and decentralized wastewater treatment.
4. Rainwater management, design of infiltration facilities, negative pressure rainwater drainage system, gray wastewater technology.
5. Design, operation and efficiency of solar thermal collectors (plate, tubular).
6. Buildings with almost zero energy consumption - design concept. Qualitative level of design of building envelope structures. Used technical systems and renewable energy sources.
7. Design of a hot water preparation system. Properties of hot water, microbial colonization. Methods of hot water preparation. Total hot water demand, consumption profile and tank design. Security equipment, thermal insulation design. Heat recovery in hot water preparation systems.
8. Methodology of approach and design of heating systems for various operations - evaluation from a technical, economic and functional point of view.
9. Dimensioning of heating system pipes. TRV design, circulation pump design. Control valves. Two-way and three-way control valves, servo drives. Expansion vessel, safety valve - calculation details. Equithermal control.
10. Heating systems: Heat pumps. Principle, function. Types of heat pumps. Performance design. Heating factor. DHW heating. Accumulators.
11. Heating systems: Gas condensing boilers. Boiler room design. Toroid design. Boiler room wiring, boiler cascades, technology and components of the technical room.
12. Implementation of building environment technology projects, content and scope of project documentation, calculation tools, examples of project documentation.
13. Final consultations of assigned projects.

E-learning

LMS Moodle 229-0308 – Projektování systémů TZB

Literature

Sam Kubba: Handbook of Green Building Design and Construction, 2017, ISBN 978-0-12-810433-0 .

Advised literature

Berge.B: – The Ecology of Building Materials, NY, 2009.
Blower, G.J.: Plumbing Mechanical Services, Essex, 2006.