13 hod., optionally

1. Introduction, motivation, historical development, related laws, regulations, standards, heat transfer. 2. Thermal properties of building materials, sources of information, definition of thermal comfort. 3. Boundary conditions for calculations, definition of steady state thermal field, thermal resistance, total therma resistance. 4. Thermal transmittance - calculation when considering one-dimensional or two-dimensional heat transfer, evaluation, influence of reflective properties of materials. 5. The average (overal) thermal transmittance of the building envelope,the energy label of the building envelope. 6. Temperatures in building structures in steady state temperature field, lowest internal surface temperature of the structure, calculation of the temperature factor at the internal surface and its evaluation. 7. Calculation of the thermal transmittance when of one-dimensional heat transfer cannot be applied, thermal bridges, linear and point thermal transmittance 8. Water vapour tranfer through the building structures, calculation of the interstitial condensation , calculation of the annual balance of interstitial evaporation and condensation and evaluation. 9. Description of non steady temperature field, thermal damping, drop of the touch temperature of the floors and its evaluation. 10. Thermal room stability in summer and winter, definition of critical room, evaluation. 11. Introduction to the energy performance of the building, introduction to the energy performance certificate of the building. 12. Air permeability of building envelope, airtightness measurement, diagnostics of building structures by infrared thermography method. 13 Thermal energy storage - technical solutions.