Acquiring knowledge and skills in the field of thermal comfort and indoor air quality – standards and legislation in the field of thermal comfort; thermal comfort indicators; methodology of thermal comfort indicators’ calculation; evaluation of indoor environmental quality in buildings; indoor environmental quality impact on occupants’ health and productivity; standards and methodology of questionnaires and occupants survey for different types of buildings; statistical data processing; measures for improvement of thermal environmental quality; equipment and measurements for thermal comfort and indoor environmental quality evaluation.

Students acquire specific skills and knowledge in the field of thermal comfort and indoor environmental quality; get familiar with methods for thermal comfort indicators’ calculation, which further determine category of thermal environment and can be applied in practice. Student connects advance knowledge and techniques and applies them in practical, experimental research in laboratory and during the measurements in real environments.

Тhe concept of thermal comfort and indoor environmental quality; international legislative in the field of thermal comfort; thermal comfort indices and thermal environment categories for different types of buildings; local thermal comfort indices; lighting and noise comfort level; occupants’ productivity and health and their correlations with indoor environmental quality; occupants’ survey; statistical survey methodology for indoor environmental quality analysis; creation of questionnaires; statistical data processing; measures for improvement of thermal environmental quality.

Practical skills consist of parts: Calculation of thermal comfort indices and building thermal category – handling with measuring equipment, measuring of main physical parameters of thermal comfort: air temperature, surfaces temperature, radiant temperature, air speed, relative humidity, CO2 concentration; determination of personal factors; design of questionnaires for occupants survey and methods for surveying in situ; model creation and validation for building thermal comfort simulation. Individual project task – measurements, statistical and numerical methods on the adequate building example.

Without conditions.

Books and scientific literature; standards; measuring equipment.

Total assigned hours: 65

New material: 40
Elaboration and examples (recapitulation): 10

Auditory exercises: 0
Laboratory exercises: 0
Calculation tasks: 0
Seminar paper: 0
Project: 0
Consultations: 0
Discussion/workshop: 0
Research study work: 0

Review and grading of calculation tasks: 0
Review and grading of lab reports: 5
Review and grading of seminar papers: 5
Review and grading of the project: 0
Test: 0
Test: 0
Final exam: 5

Activity during lectures: 0
Test/test: 0
Laboratory practice: 30
Calculation tasks: 0
Seminar paper: 20
Project: 0
Final exam: 50
Requirement for taking the exam (required number of points): 50

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