Microenvironment 1

Lecturer:

Tutor:

Supervisor:

Department of Engineering Equipment of Buildings

Synopsis:

Sick building syndrome.Building biology.Hygrothermal constituent of environment.Odor microclimate.Toxics in interior.The threat of germs.

Requirements:

No prerequisities required.

Syllabus of lectures:

Components (constituents according to NASA)of environment and their interaction with building constructions and human body as a building user.Modern ways of component level evaluation according to Weber-Fechner law.Optimal,permissible and long-term admissible limits for selected components for optimization design.Stereothermometer(movie of Ministry of Education). Human Machine (movie National Geographic).Don´t Die Yong(movie BBC).

Syllabus of tutorials:

No exercises,student is asked to prepare paper dealing with some problem of indoor climate.

Study Objective:

Deep theoretical knowledge with ability of application in practice.

Study materials:

Jokl,M.:The theory of indoor environment of buildings.Czech.Prague 1993.

Jokl,M:Healthy Residental and Working Environment.Czech.ACADEMIA,Praha 20002

Jokl,M:Microenvironment:The Theory and Practice of Indoor Climate.Thomas,Illinois,USA 1989.

Note:

Time-table for winter semester 2011/2012:

Time-table is not available yet

Time-table for summer semester 2011/2012:

Time-table is not available yet

The course is a part of the following study plans: