Course Details
Principles of envelope design for low energy buildings
Academic Year 2024/25
BHA028 course is part of 1 study plan
BPC-EVB Winter Semester 3rd year
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
4 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, 1 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
1. Motivation, terminology, definition of categories of energy-efficient buildings, overview of related laws, regulations and standards.
2. Architectural solution - orientation to the world sides, recommended layout solution, recommended shape solution, influence of shape solution on energy performance.
3. Constructional design - variants of load-bearing structures and pratitions (advantages, disadvantages), importance of thermal bridges.
4. Envelope of energy-efficient buildings - principles of design of vertical structures including material variants.
5. Envelope of energy-efficient buildings - principles of roof and floor design including material variants.
6. Envelope based on the renewable building materials.
7. Modern thermal insulation materials.
8. Wall openings- used types, methods of anchoring.
9. Principles for the solution of details of building structures.
10. Air-tightness of buildings - legislation, ways of provision and tests on site.
11. Passive and active use of solar radiation, influence of building solution on thermal stability.
12. Energy rehabilitation of the envelope - differences compared to new buildings.
13. Examples of good practice.
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
1. Assignment of semestral work
2.-3. Design of building layout, modifying of an existing object
4. Design of the size and location of wall openigs
5. Design and calculation of the properties of wall openings
6-7. Design of vertical structures and their assessment
8. Design of roof structure and structures in contact with soil
9. Calculation of average thermal transmittance
10.-12. Design and assessment of selected design details
13. Consultations and credit