Course Details
Acoustics and Daylighting
Academic Year 2023/24
BHB011 course is part of 3 study plans
BPC-SI / S Summer Semester 4th year
BKC-SI Summer Semester 4th year
BPA-SI Summer Semester 4th year
The course presents fundamentals in room acoustics and daylighting in buildings. Knowledge of this subject will be practically used for the following study - in seminars, projects and master degree projects.
Course Guarantor
Institute
Objective
Fundamentals in room acoustics, determination of air-borne and impact sound insulation index for building constructions, design of rooms and their interiors with respect to reverberation time, determination of requirements for indoor acoustic comfort and design of building protection against exterior noise.
Methods for the evaluation of visual comfort in buildings, daylighting and insolation of buildings.
Knowledge
Reports of building acoustics and daylighting and insolation tasks.
Tasks from reports will be applicable in study projects.
Syllabus
Building acoustics:
1. Sound waves, sound field. Acoustics and physiology, basic notions, sound levels and loudness.
2. Sound measurement, frequency band, frequency band analysis, noise report, hygienic limits.
3. Urban acoustics, noise attenuation.
4. Room acoustics, diffuse sound field, sound field.
5. Absorptive constructions, membranes and oscillating plates, Helmholtz resonators. Sound insulation, rating of air-born and structure-born sound insulation.
6. Air-born sound insulation, Watter’s method. Impact sound insulation of building constructions.
Daylighting and insolation in buildings:
7. Solar radiation, insolation, requirements for insolation.
8. Light and photometry. Methods of evaluation of daylighting in buildings, Daniljuk’s nomograms.
9. Waldram’s diagram, BRS nomograms, average daylight factor.
10. Daylight simulation software.
11. Summary, importance of acoustics, daylighting and insolation for the building design.
Prerequisites
Fundamentals in building constructions, fundamentals in physics, Acoustics and Optics.
Language of instruction
Czech, English
Credits
4 credits
Semester
Forms and criteria of assessment
Specification of controlled instruction, the form of instruction, and the form of compensation of the absences
Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.
Offered to foreign students
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus