Course Details

Acoustics and Daylighting (EVB)

Academic Year 2024/25

BHA027 course is part of 1 study plan

BPC-EVB Winter Semester 3rd year

Course Guarantor

Institute

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

5 credits

Semester

winter

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

1. Acoustics: Sound waves, sound field. Acoustics and physiology, basic notions, sound levels and loudness. 2. Acoustics: Sound measurement, frequency band, frequency band analysis, noise report, hygienic limits. 3. Acoustics: Urban acoustics, noise attenuation. 4. Acoustics: Room acoustics, diffuse sound field, sound field. 5. Acoustics: Absorptive constructions, membranes and oscillating plates, Helmholtz resonators. 6. Acoustics: Sound insulation, rating of air-born and structure-born sound insulation. 7. Acoustics: Air-born sound insulation, Watter’s method. 8. Acoustics: Impact sound insulation in building constructions. 9. Daylighting: Solar radiation, insolation, requirements for insolation. 10. Daylighting: Light and photometry. Methods for evaluation of daylighting in buildings, Daniljuk’s nomograms. 11. Daylighting: Waldram’s diagram, BRS nomograms, average daylight factor. 12. Daylighting: Daylighting simulation software. 13. Daylighting: Summary, importance of acoustics, daylighting and insolation for building design.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

1. Acoustics: Introduction, sound waves, octave bands, frequences. 2. Acoustics: Sound pressure, power and intensity levels. 3. Acoustics: Equivalent noise level, noise histogram. 4. Acoustics: Noise reduction due to distance, green bushes and walls. 5. Acoustics: Noise reduction due to wide barrier. 6. Acoustics: Reverberation time of a room. Recommendations for the room finishings because of the reverberation time reduction. 7. Acoustics: Air-borne sound insulation of a building construction. 8. Acoustics: Sound reduction index of a simple wall determined according to the Watter’s method. 9. Acoustics: Impact-sound insulation of a building construction. 10. Daylighting: Assessment of a building insolation, shading diagram. 11. Daylighting: Evaluation of a room daylighting with Daniljuk’s nomograms. 12. Daylighting: Daylight simulation in WDLS software. 13. Daylighting: Preliminary report of noise, insolation and daylight conditions in a selected building.