Course Details

Building Physics 1

Academic Year 2025/26

BHA044 course is part of 1 study plan

BPC-APS Winter Semester 3rd year

Course Guarantor

Institute

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

1 credit

Semester

winter

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Fundamentals in heat transfer. Thermal comfort in buildings.
  • 2. Steady state heat flux, U-value determination.
  • 3. Temperature profile for steady state conditions.
  • 4. Influence of a reflective (aluminium) foil on U-value of the structure with non-ventilated air cavity.
  • 5. Surface properties, risk of a surface condensation and mould grows, critical surface temperature and humidity, dew point temperature.
  • 6. Thermal properties of windows and doors.
  • 7. Two dimensional temperature profile of characteristic details (critical places in structures - thermal bridges and corners).
  • 8. Assessment and determination of condensation regions into structures, additional protection against vapour and moisture.
  • 9. Annual balance of condensated and evaporated amounts in the structure.
  • 10. Non-steady state heat flux.
  • 11. Floor categories, surface temperature drop.
  • 12. Thermal stability of rooms.
  • 13. Energy efficiency and energy consumption in buildings.