Buildings and Energy

Lecturer:

Michal Kabrhel (gar.)

Tutor:

Supervisor:

Department of Engineering Equipment of Buildings

Synopsis:

Building Services Systems-heating, cooling, ventilation.

Renewable Energy Sources-description, design, energy efficiency, calculation.

Requirements:

Basic knowledge of building design, material design, structural systems, building physics.

Syllabus of lectures:

1 Introduction, building and energy, energy audits, energy performance of buildings

2 Heating systems in buildings - energy sources

3 Heating systems in buildings - heating system

4 Ventilation systems in buildings - ventilation system, distribution systems

5 Systems of cooling - cooling sources, distribution system, energy-saving systems

6 Solar energy - the use of principle, passive systems.

7 Solar energy - the principle of recovery, active systems, process design of solar systems.

8 Biomass - sources, methods of extraction of biomass, biomass processing.

9 Biomass - ways of generating energy from biomass, biomass combustion.

10 Geothermal energy - how energy production, energy use in buildings

11 Geothermal energy - heat pumps, design, utilization. Cogeneration - Technology features, benefits.

12 Wind energy, hydropower, fuel cells - wind turbines, water turbines, wave power - construction equipment, property, energy benefits.

13 Energy efficient buildings - examples, properties of objects, concept design, coordination systems.

Syllabus of tutorials:

Study Objective:

The goal of study is comprehensive look at issues of building energy systems and obtain information about renewable energy sources and their use.

Study materials:

Special e-learning lectures.

Advanced Building Systems: A Technical Guide for Architects and Engineers/Klaus Daniels

Low energy house/Humm Othmar

Note:

Time-table for winter semester 2011/2012:

	06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon
Tue
Fri
Thu
Fri	roomTH:B-280 Kabrhel M. 12:00–13:50 (lecture parallel1) Thákurova 7 (FSv-budova A) B280

Time-table for summer semester 2011/2012:

Time-table is not available yet

The course is a part of the following study plans: