Course Details

Energy Audit of Buildings

Academic Year 2026/27

NTB029 course is part of 1 study plan

​ NPC-SIS Winter Semester 2nd year

Legislative and technical requirements for energy audits and energy assessments.
Energy balance in audit.
Energy balance in the assessment.
Environmental impacts in the audit and in the assessment.
The economy in the audit and in the assessment.
Energy audit in the EU.

Credits

3 credits

Language of instruction

Czech

Semester

winter

Course Guarantor

doc. Ing. Petr Horák, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Building Services

Forms and criteria of assessment

graded course-unit credit

Entry Knowledge

Energy Assessment of Buildings, Heating, Ventilation, Building Physics, Sanitary, Cooling and Wiring.

Aims

Professional knowledge

The student carries out an analysis of the current condition of a building in terms of energy flows and the thermal properties of the building envelope.

Professional skills

The student compiles an energy balance sheet for the purposes of an energy audit and an energy assessment.

Professional competence

The student is able to carry out an energy audit and an energy assessment.

Basic Literature

Stavební tepelná technika a energetika budov Vaverka J., Hirš J., Skotnicová I. Vutium 2006 ISBN 80-214-2910-0 (cs)
ASHRAE GreenGuide The Design, Construction, and Operation of Sustainable Buildings Collective of authors American Society of Heating, refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Inc. 2010 ISBN 978-1-9337 42-85-4 (en)
Tepelná akumulace budov Jaroslav Řehánek ČKAIT 2002 ISBN 80-86364-59-3 (cs)

Prerequisites

Energy Assessment of Buildings, Heating, Ventilation, Building Physics, Sanitary, Cooling and Wiring.

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/303693

Exercise

13 weeks, 3 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Entering the building, the choice of input data and boundary conditions, a description of the initial state
  • 2. Development of curricula energy audit.
  • 3. Development of curricula energy assessment.
  • 4. The calculation of the balance of energy flow in an energy audit.
  • 5. The calculation of the balance of energy flow in the energy assessment.
  • 6. Monitoring, measurement and analysis.
  • 7. Calculation of emissions and environmental impact.
  • 8. Economic evaluation of an energy audit and assessment.