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.