Course Details

Low Energy Houses

Academic Year 2024/25

NHB044 course is part of 3 study plans

NPA-SIS Summer Semester 1st year

NKC-SIS Summer Semester 1st year

NPC-SIS Summer Semester 1st year

Course Guarantor

Institute

Language of instruction

Czech, English

Credits

4 credits

Semester

summer

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Offered to foreign students

To offer to students of all faculties

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 and its thermal balance. 3. Thermal insulation design of a building (wall, roof, floor, windows). 4. Ventilation, heating and air-tightness of a building. 5. Thermal joints of constructions (foundations, floor, corner, jamb and cap). 6. Computer programmes and simulations of the annual heat and cold consumption. 7. Void infill elements for low-energy houses. 8. Economic and utility assessment of low-energy buildings. 9. An excursion to a low-energy house. 10. Energy legislation.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

1. Principles of low-energy buildings. 2. Design fundamentals of a low-energy house and its thermal balance. 3. Thermal insulation design of a building (wall, roof, floor, windows). 4. Ventilation, heating and air-tightness of a building. 5. Thermal joints of constructions (foundations, floor, corner, jamb and cap). 6. Computer programmes and simulations of the annual heat and cold consumption. 7. Void infill elements for low-energy houses. 8. Economic and utility assessment of low-energy buildings. 9. An excursion to a low-energy house. 10. Energy legislation.