Course Details

Building Services – Heating

Academic Year 2026/27

BTA027-A course is part of 1 study plan

​ BPA-SIS Summer Semester 2nd year

Heat losses of rooms and buildings and their calculation based on the building physics parameters of building structures. Heating systems, water heating systems. Heating surfaces for low-temperature heating systems. Fuels, boiler rooms, chimneys, and flue gas ducts. Heat pumps, cogeneration units and heating plant rooms. Safety devices. Hydraulics and dimensioning of hot water systems. Domestic hot water preparation.

Credits

4 credits

Language of instruction

English

Semester

summer

Course Guarantor

doc. Ing. Aleš Rubina, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Building Services

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit

Aims

Professional knowledge:
  • The student will gain knowledge about basic heating systems for residential and civil construction: heat sources, especially those based on the use of renewable energy, hot water heating systems, variants of heating surfaces and methods of hot water preparation.
Professional skills:
  • After completing the course, the student will be able to design a standard heating system solution in connection with the layout and construction design of the building. The student will be able to use this knowledge for complex building design.
Qualification:
  • The student will gain qualification for follow-up courses and education necessary to obtain authorization within Czech Chamber of Authorized Engineers and Technicians Active in Construction at the level of authorized technician.

Basic Literature

The Design, Construction, and Operation of Sustainable Buildings, 3rd ed., American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers; 3rd edition (2010), ISBN 10-1933742852 (en)
Principles of Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning, American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers; 9th edition (2021), ISBN 9781947192706 (en)
McQUISTON F. C.: Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning, John Wiley & Sons Inc (2023), ISBN 9781119894148 (en)
Low Temperature Heating and Hot Water Qualification Reference Guide, 2nd edition, CIPHE (2020), ISBN 978196366527 (en)

Offered to foreign students

To offer to students of all faculties

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/299102

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  1. Hygrothermalindoorclimateofbuildings. Heat transportationtheory. Conceptual design ofbuildingventilation and heatingsystems.
  2. Preliminary and precisecalculationofbuildingheatlossesaccording to currentstandards.
  3. Building heating systems – overview, principles, design and classification.
  4. Heating units and surfaces – convective, radiant and combined systems. Selection in the context of nZEB buildings.
  5. Basic types of fuels and energy sources. Heat sources – overview, efficiency, emission classes, ecodesign requirements. Thermal energy storage.
  6. Domestic hot waterpreparation. Systemcomponents in boiler rooms and plant rooms. Integrationwithsolarsystems.
  7. Gas boiler rooms and condensing technology. Fluegasexhaust, chimneysystems. Combinationwithrenewableenergysources. Principlesofcombinedheat and electricpowergeneration (CHP). Biomass boiler rooms.
  8. Low-potentialheatsources. Design and sizingofsystemswithheatpumps.
  9. Hydraulics and sizingofcentralheatingsystems, controlvalves, circulationpumps.
  10. Safetydevicesforheatingsystems.
  11. Districtheating, transfer and apartment stations, integrationofrenewableenergysources. Heat and fuelconsumption.
  12. Use of renewable and alternative energy sources in heating and their impact on building energy performance. Solar systems, photovoltaics.
  13. Operation and controlmethodsofheatingsystems in buildings.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  1. Introduction to the exercise. Heat transfer coefficients of building structures.
  2. Preliminary calculation of heat losses, energy label of the building envelope.
  3. Accurate calculation of heat losses of the building (calculation of heat output).
  4. Design of radiators, principle of design of floor heating.
  5. Solution of pipe distribution of the heating system.
  6. Preparation of hot water in combination with solar collectors.
  7. Design of a heat source - gas condensing boiler, pellet boiler.
  8. Design of a heat source - heat pump (air-source, ground-source).
  9. Dimensioning of pipe distribution and design of a circulation pump.
  10. Design of a safety device.
  11. Connection diagram of the boiler room and engine room.
  12. Calculation of heat and fuel demands (degree-day method, Czech technical standard EN ISO 52016-1 Energy performance of buildings). Digital tools for calculation.
  13. Final inspection and evaluation of work, credit.

Self-study

26 weeks, 1 hours/week

Individual preparation for an ending of the course

26 weeks, 1 hours/week