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AR50434: Building physics visualisation tools

Academic Year: 2018/9
Owning Department/School: Department of Architecture & Civil Engineering
Credits: 6      [equivalent to 12 CATS credits]
Notional Study Hours: 120
Level: Masters UG & PG (FHEQ level 7)
Period:
Semester 1
Assessment Summary: CW 100%
Assessment Detail:
  • Subcomponent 1: Spreadsheet and Essay (CW 20%)
  • Subcomponent 2: Spreadsheet (CW 20%)
  • Subcomponent 3: Thermal Mass (CW 20%)
  • Subcomponent 4: Daylight Assignment (CW 10%)
  • Subcomponent 5: Ventilation Assignment (CW 20%)
  • Subcomponent 6: Acoustic Assignment (CW 10%)
Supplementary Assessment:
Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
Requisites:
Description: Aims:
To quantify real building physics phenomena that will accelerate the student along the path from theory into professional practice.

Learning Outcomes:
On successful completion of this unit, students should be able to:
* To understand how simple spreadsheets can be used to examine options for many building physics challenges at an early stage of the design cycle.
* To examine the form of the equations that lie behind environmental design.
* To distinguish between dependent or independent variables in key building physics equations.
* To develop and appraise the steps that comprises the total energy performance calculations for a building.
* To have the confidence to complete an energy calculation.

Skills:

* Extending existing spreadsheet skills to undertake early design stage analysis. (T, F, A)
* Devising spreadsheet that others may follow. (T, F, A)
* Subjectively visualizing and quantifying the relative magnitude fundamental building physics phenomena. (T, F, A)
* Experience of exploratory lab testing, e.g. assessing daylight factors & lux levels, evaluating different types of glare, CO2 concentrations, acceptable low velocity internal air flow, loudness and acoustic attenuation. (T, F, A)

Content:
Using "exROOM" to allow students to experience many of the core sensory values output by building simulators or described in the classic equations of building physics.
Early stage design tools, such as LT-Methods and ClimateLite (BRE).
Developing a personal student-specific professional design workbook.
Programme availability:

AR50434 is Compulsory on the following programmes:

Department of Architecture & Civil Engineering

Notes:

  • This unit catalogue is applicable for the 2018/19 academic year only. Students continuing their studies into 2019/20 and beyond should not assume that this unit will be available in future years in the format displayed here for 2018/19.
  • Programmes and units are subject to change in accordance with normal University procedures.
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