Course Details
Low Energy Houses
Academic Year 2024/25
CH007 course is not part of any programme in the faculty
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
5 credits
Semester
summer
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. Principles of low-energy buildings
2. Design fundamentals of a low-energy house and its thermal balance
3. Thermal insulation design of a building (wall, roof, floor, windows)
4. Ventilation, heating and air-tightness of a building
5. Thermal joints of constructions (foundations, floor, corner, jamb and cap)
6. Computer programmes and simulations of the annual heat and cold consumption
7. Void infill elements for low-energy houses
8. Economic and utility assessment of low-energy buildings
9. An excursion to a low-energy house
10. Energy legislation
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
1. Principles of low-energy buildings
2. Design fundamentals of a low-energy house and its thermal balance
3. Thermal insulation design of a building (wall, roof, floor, windows)
4. Ventilation, heating and air-tightness of a building
5. Thermal joints of constructions (foundations, floor, corner, jamb and cap)
6. Computer programmes and simulations of the annual heat and cold consumption
7. Void infill elements for low-energy houses
8. Economic and utility assessment of low-energy buildings
9. An excursion to a low-energy house
10. Energy legislation