Course Details
Low Energy Houses
Academic Year 2025/26
BHB047 course is part of 1 study plan
BPC-APS Winter Semester 4th year
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
3 credits
Semester
winter
Forms and criteria of assessment
graded course-unit credit
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
- 1. Principles of low-energy buildings.
- 2. Design fundamentals of a low-energy house.
- 3. Requirements for Nearly zero and Passive buildings.
- 4. Thermal insulation design of a building (wall, roof, floor, windows).
- 5. Thermal joints of constructions (foundations, floor, corner, jamb and cap).
- 6. Windows anad doors for passive houses.
- 7. Ventilation, heating and hot domestic water.
- 8. HVAC systems and renewable energy.
- 9. Computer programmes and simulations of the annual heat and cold consumption.
- 10. Energy legislation and certificate.
- 11. Air-tightness of a building.
- 12. Practice examples of buildings.
- 13. Defects, failures and renovation of buildings.
Exercise
13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
- 1. Principles of low-energy buildings, assignment of semester work by groups.
- 2. Design of the building envelope, assessment of thermal joints and bridges.
- 3. Calculation of windows.
- 4. Overall assessment of the object in computer programs.
- 5. Evidence of the energy efficiency of the building.
- 6. Presentation of individual projects - credit.