Course Details

Building Acoustics and Daylighting Buildings

Academic Year 2025/26

NHB045 course is part of 1 study plan

NPC-SIS Summer Semester 1st year

Course Guarantor

Institute

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

3 credits

Semester

summer

Forms and criteria of assessment

graded course-unit credit

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Basic terminology and quantities of building acoustics, sound levels and decibel scale. Soun wave propagation.
  • 2. Noise and its classification-NV č.272/2011 Sb.- about health protection against negative influence of noise and vibrations.
  • 3. Sound propagation in free space. Attenuation of noise in the environment.
  • 4. Assessment of air-borne and impact sound insulation.
  • 5. Watters method for the air-borne sound reduction index.
  • 6. Assessment of structure-borne sound reduction.
  • 7. Architectural acoustics, acoustic absorption. Reverberation time of a room.
  • 8. Daylighting and solar radiation.
  • 9. Insolation diagram and insolation assessment.
  • 10. Daylighting in buildings, sky luminance.
  • 11. Daylight factor evaluation.

Exercise

13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Basic calculations in the field of acoustics (sound pressure level, etc.).
  • 2. Calculation of sound pressure levels outside the protected space construction.
  • 3. Calculation of reverberation time in the classroom and design of acoustic measures.
  • 4. Calculation of airborne and impact sound insulation graphical numerical method by Watters.
  • 5. Calculation of daylight factor in the classroom.
  • 6. Calculation of insolation entered the living room.