Course Details
Building Acoustics and Daylighting Buildings
Academic Year 2024/25
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.