Building Physics

Course code: 124BPH
Course guarantor: doc. Dr. Ing. Zbyněk Svoboda
Form of exams: A,EX
Number of credits: 6 credits
Weekly load: 3+2
Course webpage: http://kps.fsv.cvut.cz/index.php?lmut=cz&part=vyuka&sub=semestr&type=ZS&kod=124BPH

Abstract(semestr )
Basic review of the thermal protection of buildings, building acoustics and daylighting (heat transfer, thermal conductivity, thermal resistence and thermal transmitance, multidimensional heat transfer, thermal bridges and thermal joints, difusion of water vapour and vapour condensation, mould growth, transient heat transfer, risk of overheating, low-energy, passive and zero-energy buildings, sound in the living and working environment, perception and description of sound: intensity, frequency, time factor, information value, interindividual sensitivity, point, line and plane sound sources, sound power level, directivity factor, sound propagation in the free field conditions, sound propagation in the diffuse field conditions, definable and indefinable sounds, airborne and structureborne sound, definition, measurement, evaluation and the limits, sound reduction index of double structures, mass-air-mass resonance, standing waves in a cavity, definition, measurement, evaluation, the sun and the environment, basics of spherical astronomy, horizons and equatorial coordinates, calculating of the sun azimuth and altitude, daylight and lighting, visual perception, basics of photometry, daylight factor and calculation models of the sky, methods for determining daylight factor, influence of environment on a daylighting: photometric characteristics of shielding barriers, technical characteristics of lighting openings).
Content 
1. Heat transfer, thermal conductivity, thermal resistence and thermal transmitance, requirements
2. One- and multizone model of building, heat loss by conduction and ventilation
3. Building-energy concepts, low-energy, passive and zero-energy buildings
4. Multidimensional heat transfer, thermal bridges and thermal joints
5. Difusion of water vapour and condensation in the constructions, surface condensation
6. Non-steady heat transfer and thermal inertia, the risk of overheating, evaluation of floors
7. Sound in the living and working environment, perception and description of sound: intensity, frequency, time factor, information value, interindividual sensitivity
8. Point, line and plane sound sources, sound power level, directivity factor, sound propagation in the free field conditions, sound propagation in the diffuse field conditions
9. Definable and indefinable sounds, airborne and structureborne sound, definition, measurement, evaluation and the limits
10. Sound reduction index of double structures, mass-air-mass resonance, standing waves in a cavity, definition, measurement, evaluation
11. The sun and the environment, basics of spherical astronomy, horizons and equatorial coordinates, calculating of the sun azimuth and altitude
12. Daylight and lighting, visual perception, basics of photometry, daylight factor and calculation models of the sky, requirements
13. Methods for determining daylight factor, influence of environment on a daylighting: photometric characteristics of shielding barriers, technical characteristics of lighting openings
Literature 
[1]  KITTLER, R. - KOCIFAJ, M. - DARULA, S.: Daylight Science and Daylight Technology. Springer Science + Business Media, London 2012, ISBN 978-1-4419-8815-7.
[2]  HAGENTOFT, C-E.: Introduction to building physics, Studentlitteratur, Lund 2001, ISBN 9789144018966.
[3]  FLICKER, T.: Handbook of Building Thermal Technology, Acoustics and Daylighting, CERM, Brno 2004, ISBN 8021426705.
[4]  Web pages of lecturers
Prerequisities 
This subject has to be completed before course 124BC01 can be clasified
This subject has to be completed before course 124SDP1 can be clasified
Studijní plány 
Předmět je zařazen do následujících studijních plánů:

- studijní plán Civil Engineering (BD2020), skupina Civil Engineering, 5th semester (BD20200500), dop. semestr 5 (valid from 2020/21 )