Course Details
Low Energy Houses
Academic Year 2023/24
CH007 course is part of 2 study plans
N-P-C-SI (N) / S / NPS Summer Semester 1st year
N-K-C-SI (N) / S / NPS Summer Semester 1st year
Designing of low-energy houses with the use of passive solar systems. An introduction to the utilization of active solar systems and renewable energy sources. Students will be given a general layout of a family or residential house to adjust and design a low-energy or a passive house. The balance of energy losses and gains will be calculated for the heating period as well as energy savings, heating expenses and rough calculation of the economic indexes.
Credits
5 credits
Language of instruction
Czech
Semester
summer
Course Guarantor
Institute
Forms and criteria of assessment
course-unit credit and examination
Entry Knowledge
Basic knowledge of the thermal protection of buildings, knowledge of the basic physical quantities and thermal properties of building materials.
Aims
To master correct designing and evaluation of a building as a low-energy, passive or the zero-energy house.
Student will design and evaluate the building, which fulfil criteria for low-energy or passive house. Including evaluation of critical details.
Student will design and evaluate the building, which fulfil criteria for low-energy or passive house. Including evaluation of critical details.
Syllabus
1. Principles of low-energy buildings
2. Design fundamentals of a low-energy house and its thermal balance
3. Thermal insulation design of a building (wall, roof, floor, windows)
4. Ventilation, heating and air-tightness of a building
5. Thermal joints of constructions (foundations, floor, corner, jamb and cap)
6. Computer programmes and simulations of the annual heat and cold consumption
7. Void infill elements for low-energy houses
8. Economic and utility assessment of low-energy buildings
9. An excursion to a low-energy house
10. Energy legislation
2. Design fundamentals of a low-energy house and its thermal balance
3. Thermal insulation design of a building (wall, roof, floor, windows)
4. Ventilation, heating and air-tightness of a building
5. Thermal joints of constructions (foundations, floor, corner, jamb and cap)
6. Computer programmes and simulations of the annual heat and cold consumption
7. Void infill elements for low-energy houses
8. Economic and utility assessment of low-energy buildings
9. An excursion to a low-energy house
10. Energy legislation
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of the thermal protection of buildings, knowledge of the basic physical quantities and thermal properties of building materials.
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
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
1. Principles of low-energy buildings
2. Design fundamentals of a low-energy house and its thermal balance
3. Thermal insulation design of a building (wall, roof, floor, windows)
4. Ventilation, heating and air-tightness of a building
5. Thermal joints of constructions (foundations, floor, corner, jamb and cap)
6. Computer programmes and simulations of the annual heat and cold consumption
7. Void infill elements for low-energy houses
8. Economic and utility assessment of low-energy buildings
9. An excursion to a low-energy house
10. Energy legislation
2. Design fundamentals of a low-energy house and its thermal balance
3. Thermal insulation design of a building (wall, roof, floor, windows)
4. Ventilation, heating and air-tightness of a building
5. Thermal joints of constructions (foundations, floor, corner, jamb and cap)
6. Computer programmes and simulations of the annual heat and cold consumption
7. Void infill elements for low-energy houses
8. Economic and utility assessment of low-energy buildings
9. An excursion to a low-energy house
10. Energy legislation
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
1. Principles of low-energy buildings
2. Design fundamentals of a low-energy house and its thermal balance
3. Thermal insulation design of a building (wall, roof, floor, windows)
4. Ventilation, heating and air-tightness of a building
5. Thermal joints of constructions (foundations, floor, corner, jamb and cap)
6. Computer programmes and simulations of the annual heat and cold consumption
7. Void infill elements for low-energy houses
8. Economic and utility assessment of low-energy buildings
9. An excursion to a low-energy house
10. Energy legislation
2. Design fundamentals of a low-energy house and its thermal balance
3. Thermal insulation design of a building (wall, roof, floor, windows)
4. Ventilation, heating and air-tightness of a building
5. Thermal joints of constructions (foundations, floor, corner, jamb and cap)
6. Computer programmes and simulations of the annual heat and cold consumption
7. Void infill elements for low-energy houses
8. Economic and utility assessment of low-energy buildings
9. An excursion to a low-energy house
10. Energy legislation