Course Details
Computer Aided Building Physics Application
Academic Year 2025/26
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech, English
Credits
3 credits
Semester
winter
Forms and criteria of assessment
course-unit credit and examination
Offered to foreign students
To offer to students of all faculties
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 1 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
- 1. Functional requirements for thermal protection of buildings, energy legislation.
- 2. Practical use of software for building heat engineering solution of one-dimensional temperature field for the unsteady state.
- 3.–4. Modelling and assessment of selected detail using a two-dimensional temperature field.
- 5.–6. Thermal stability of a room – a critical assessment of the room in terms of maximal increase of temperature and a maximum temperature of a room in summer.
- 7. Functional requirements of the day and insolation of buildings.
- 8. Rating daylight factor.
- 9. Structural and energetic properties of the building, the heat transfer through the building envelope.
- 10. Energy performance of buildings.
- 11. Functional requirements for acoustics.
- 12. Rating insulation separating structures.
- 13. Verifying the suitability of design of structures including doors and windows in terms of building physics (overall concept of the building and individual design – optimization requirements in terms of thermal physics, acoustics, daylighting and insolation of buildings).
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
- 1. Programs, legislation, award - undergraduate project, conditions for credits, requirements in CSN
- 2. Heat transfer coefficient, together with a thermal bridge, balance condensation and evaporation of water vapor with consideration of the actual effectiveness of the vapor layer, drop touch the floor temperature.
- 3.–4. Solution selected details (min. 2 details) using a two-dimensional temperature field.
- 5.–6. Assessment of the critical rooms for thermal stability in winter and summer.
- 7.–8. Assessment of daylight factor (required continuity of the summer thermal stability). Optimizing the window size so as to meet the requirements in terms of thermal stability and daylight factor.
- 9. The transmission of heat through the building envelope, the average heat transfer coefficient, the label of the building envelope.
- 10.–11. Evaluation of energy performance according to the current legislation.
- 12. Assessment of internal partition structures in terms of airborne and impact sound insulation.
- 13. Credits.