Course Details

Acoustics and Daylighting (EVB)

Academic Year 2025/26

BHA027 course is part of 1 study plan

​ BPC-EVB Winter Semester 3rd year

Course Guarantor

prof. Ing. Jitka Mohelníková, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Building Structures

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

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/289992

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.