Course Details
Acoustics and Daylighting (EVB)
Academic Year 2024/25
BHA027 course is part of 1 study plan
BPC-EVB Winter Semester 3rd year
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
5 credits
Semester
winter
Forms and criteria of assessment
course-unit credit and examination
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
1. Acoustics: Sound waves, sound field. Acoustics and physiology, basic notions, sound levels and loudness.
2. Acoustics: Sound measurement, frequency band, frequency band analysis, noise report, hygienic limits.
3. Acoustics: Urban acoustics, noise attenuation.
4. Acoustics: Room acoustics, diffuse sound field, sound field.
5. Acoustics: Absorptive constructions, membranes and oscillating plates, Helmholtz resonators.
6. Acoustics: Sound insulation, rating of air-born and structure-born sound insulation.
7. Acoustics: Air-born sound insulation, Watter’s method.
8. Acoustics: Impact sound insulation in building constructions.
9. Daylighting: Solar radiation, insolation, requirements for insolation.
10. Daylighting: Light and photometry. Methods for evaluation of daylighting in buildings, Daniljuk’s nomograms.
11. Daylighting: Waldram’s diagram, BRS nomograms, average daylight factor.
12. Daylighting: Daylighting simulation software.
13. Daylighting: Summary, importance of acoustics, daylighting and insolation for building design.
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
1. Acoustics: Introduction, sound waves, octave bands, frequences.
2. Acoustics: Sound pressure, power and intensity levels.
3. Acoustics: Equivalent noise level, noise histogram.
4. Acoustics: Noise reduction due to distance, green bushes and walls.
5. Acoustics: Noise reduction due to wide barrier.
6. Acoustics: Reverberation time of a room. Recommendations for the room finishings because of the reverberation time reduction.
7. Acoustics: Air-borne sound insulation of a building construction.
8. Acoustics: Sound reduction index of a simple wall determined according to the Watter’s method.
9. Acoustics: Impact-sound insulation of a building construction.
10. Daylighting: Assessment of a building insolation, shading diagram.
11. Daylighting: Evaluation of a room daylighting with Daniljuk’s nomograms.
12. Daylighting: Daylight simulation in WDLS software.
13. Daylighting: Preliminary report of noise, insolation and daylight conditions in a selected building.