Course Details

Building Physics 2

Academic Year 2025/26

BHA045 course is part of 1 study plan

​ BPC-APS Summer Semester 3rd year

Course Guarantor

doc. Ing. Miloš Kalousek, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Building Structures

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

2 credits

Semester

summer

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/289692

Lecture

13 weeks, 1 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1.-2. Daylighting and assessment of the daylighting factor
  • 3.-4. Daylighting of building-direct solar radiation
  • 5.-6. Physical fundamentals of acoustics, levels and calculations with levels. Propagation of sound in free space - sound field.
  • 7.-8. Noise and its assessment. Noise attenuation in the outdoor area. Defects and malfunctions in terms of stationary noise sources.
  • 9.-10. Room acoustics, sound absorption, room reverberation time.
  • 11.-12. Sound reduction of building structures. Assessment of air-borne sound insulation. Assessment of impact sound insulation. Methods of determining the sound reduction of building structures.
  • 13. Defects and malfunctions of buildings in terms of sound reduction properties - air-borne and impact sound reduction. Critical places in the newly designed building.

Exercise

13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1.-2. Daylighting and assessment of the daylighting factor
  • 3.-4. Daylighting of building-direct solar radiation
  • 5.-6. Physical fundamentals of acoustics, levels and calculations with levels. Propagation of sound in free space - sound field.
  • 7.-8. Noise and its assessment. Noise attenuation in the outdoor area. Defects and malfunctions in terms of stationary noise sources.
  • 9.-10. Room acoustics, sound absorption, room reverberation time.
  • 11.-12. Sound reduction of building structures. Assessment of air-borne sound insulation. Assessment of impact sound insulation. Methods of determining the sound reduction of building structures.
  • 13. Defects and malfunctions of buildings in terms of sound reduction properties - air-borne and impact sound reduction. Critical places in the newly designed building.