Course detail

Low Energy Houses

FAST-NHB044Acad. year: 2024/2025

Designing of Nearly zero energy houses and Passive houses with the use of passive solar systems. An introduction to the utilization of active solar systems and renewable energy sources. Students will be given a general layout of a family or residential house to adjust and design with satisfactory conditions. The balance of energy losses and gains will be calculated for the heating period as well as energy savings, heating expenses and calculation of the other technical indexes.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

4

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. Ing. Miloš Kalousek, Ph.D.

Department

Institute of Building Structures (PST)

Offered to foreign students

Of all faculties

Entry knowledge

Basic knowledge of the thermal protection of buildings, knowledge of the basic physical quantities and thermal properties of building materials.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Aims

To master correct designing and evaluation of a building as a low-energy, passive or the zero-energy house.


Student will design and evaluate the building, which fulfil criteria for low-energy or passive house. Including evaluation of critical details.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

ČSN 73 0540-1 až 4 Tepelná ochrana budov. ČNI Praha. (CS)
Směrnice Evropského parlamentu a rady 2010/31/EU O energetické náročnosti budov (EPBD II). 2002. (CS)
Zákon č.406/2000 Sb., a jeho prováděcí vyhlášky ve znění pozdějších předpisů. 2000. (CS)

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme NPA-SIS Master's 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
  • Programme NPC-SIS Master's 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
  • Programme NPC-SIS Master's 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional

  • Programme CZV1-AKR Lifelong learning

    specialization PNM , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Miloš Kalousek, Ph.D.
doc. Ing. David Bečkovský, Ph.D.

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

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. David Bečkovský, Ph.D.
Ing. Jan Vystrčil
Ing. Štěpánka Chomová

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.