Course Details
Building Acoustics and Daylighting Buildings
Academic Year 2023/24
NHB045 course is part of 1 study plan
NPC-SIS Summer Semester 1st year
Acoustic and visual comfort is important for indoor climate. In terms of sound insulation, it is necessary to deal with both, the vertical and horizontal structures. Horizontal structures, like floor structures and finishing as well as soffits and suspended ceilings must be designed with respect to the impact sound insulation. The room acoustic is rated in terms of reverberation time. Noise attenuation in outdoors is determined in the field of urban acoustics. From building daylighting point of view, windows in building envelopes must be designed to ensure daylighting and insolation of building interiors.
Course Guarantor
Institute
Objective
Basic knowledge of parting wall design in terms of sound-reduction requirements, reverberation time, noise classification on workplaces and noise in indoor and outdoor protected areas of buildings. Design of windows in terms of interior daylighting and insolation requirements.
Knowledge
Fundamentals in room acoustics and reverberation time assessments, sound insulation properties of building constructions, building daylighting and insolation.
Syllabus
1. Basic terminology and quantities of building acoustics, sound levels and decibel scale. Soun wave propagation.
2. Noise and its classification in regulation NV č.272/2011 Sb. "about health protection against negative influence of noise and vibrations".
3. Sound propagation in free space. Attenuation of noise in the environment.
4. Assessment of air-borne and impact sound insulation.
5. Watters method for the air-borne sound reduction index.
6. Assessment of structure-borne sound reduction.
7. Architectural acoustics, acoustic absorption. Reverberation time of a room.
8. Daylighting and solar radiation.
9. Insolation diagram and insolation assessment.
10. Daylighting in buildings, sky luminance.
11. Daylight factor evaluation.
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of mathematics, knowledge of physical properties of building materials, fundamentals in building acoustic terminology, physical parameters of sound, sound field properties, fundamentals in photometry.
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
3 credits
Semester
Forms and criteria of assessment
Specification of controlled instruction, the form of instruction, and the form of compensation of the absences
Offered to foreign students
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
Exercise
13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus