Course syllabus
Energi, luft och fukt vid ombyggnad och förvaltning
Energy, Air Movements and Moisture at Rebuilding and Administration
VBFN05, 7,5 credits, A (Second Cycle)
Valid for: 2014/15
Decided by: Education Board D
Date of Decision: 2014-04-03
General Information
Elective for: V4-hb, V4-bf
Language of instruction: The course will be given in Swedish
Aim
To give the student advanced knowledge concerning energy,
moisture, quality and environmental issues in existing buildings
and building elements during management, and design stage and
production during rebuilding to get buildings that in the long run
are moisture sustainable, have low operational costs and a healthy
indoor environment.
Learning outcomes
Knowledge and understanding
For a passing grade the student must
- Measure different indoor climate parameters, identify problems
from measurements and suggest measures including possible
balancing.
- Perform energy analysis and suggest energy efficiency
measures.
- Review and identify substances in the building and in the
building services that are harmful to the environment.
- Interpret documents and drawings concerning building design and
building services and to identify possible defects.
- Describe design of building- and service techniques in older
buildings.
Competences and skills
For a passing grade the student must
- Be able to value possibilities and limitations with natural
ventilation systems.
- Apply different measuring methods and estimate and evaluate
there reliability.
- Work out maintenance planes as a result of measurements,
inspections and examination of available documents and suggest
measures on how to improve the indoor environment.
- Ability to generalize and use acquired knowledge in other
projects.
- Calculate and estimate the influence from two-dimensional
thermal bridges.
- Show ability for teamwork and cooperation in groups, be able to
oral and in written, in dialog with other groups, present and
discuss ones results and conclusions.
- Be able to calculate air flow and pressure distribution within
a building and through building components and its interaction with
the ventilation system and beable to understand consequences of air
leakage.
Judgement and approach
For a passing grade the student must
- Estimate if different measurement methods are suitable and
reliable.
- Have ability to identify the need for further knowledge to
develop his/her competence.
Contents
- Draw up documents for measures and control schemes for moisture
protection and environmental management system during all stages of
the building process.
- Inform about new national and international regulations for the
building trade. Analyse and illustrate what consequences the new
regulations will lead to.
- Inform about different methods to analyse new and existing
settlements concerning building technique, indoor climate, moisture
safety and building services systems to give priority to different
housing improvement and energy saving measures.
- Follow-up of operational statistics of a buildings energy use
to obtain a rational use of energy.
- Analyse moisture safety, energy consumption and indoor
environment in buildings.
- Study building technique in older buildings.
- Learn to interpret old and new drawings from architects,
designers and heating, water and sanitation engineering.
- General environmental knowledge concerning ecologically harmful
building- and furnishing materials and methods for inventory and
handling of such materials.
- Information about mould and rot in buildings.
- Quality assurance systems in the building trade.
- Renovation of sanitary rooms including residual pipe
renewal.
- Energy systems, balancing and construction automation.
Examination details
Grading scale: TH
Assessment: 80% attendance at the total number of lectures. Passed written examination. The written examination will contain questions from the lectures. To pass the course the students also must fulfil and pass the project exercises, do laboratory work and computer exercises. The quality of the project exercises will influence the final grade.
Parts
Code: 0114. Name: Energy, Air Movements and Moisture at Rebuilding .
Credits: 4. Grading scale: TH. Assessment: Written examination
Code: 0214. Name: Exercise.
Credits: 3,5. Grading scale: TH. Assessment: Written exercise
Admission
Required prior knowledge: VBFF01 Energy Efficiency and Indoor Environment.
The number of participants is limited to: No
The course overlaps following course/s: VBF045
Reading list
Contact and other information
Course coordinator: Birgitta Nordquist, Birgitta.Nordquist@hvac.lth.se
Course coordinator: Lars-Erik Harderup, lars-erik.harderup@byggtek.lth.se
Course homepage: https://liveatlund.lu.se/departments/Building_Physics/VBFN05/VBFN05_2014VT_100_1_NML__1281/Sidor/default.aspx