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December 20, 2022
Duration:
Unlimited Duration
FREE
This course includes:
Unlimited Duration
Badge on Completion
Certificate of completion
Unlimited Duration
Description
This course focuses on the thermal, luminous, and acoustic behavior of buildings, examining the basic scientific principles underlying these phenomena and introducing students to technologies and analysis techniques for designing comfortable indoor environments.
Students are challenged to apply these techniques and explore the role light, energy, and sound can play in shaping architecture.
Course Curriculum
- Course Introduction | Energy Use in Society Unlimited
- Energy Use in Buildings Unlimited
- Understanding Climate: Solar Radiation | Where Is the Sun? Unlimited
- Understanding Climate: Wind, Temperature, and Relative Humidity | Climate File Game Unlimited
- Thermal Comfort | CBE Comfort Tool | Case Studies Unlimited
- Active Solar Unlimited
- Light and Human Vision | Photometry Unlimited
- Daylighting Design Principles Unlimited
- Daylight Simulations | Daylight Availability Metrics | Characterizing Material Unlimited
- Visual Comfort Unlimited
- Electric Lighting | Controls | Occupant Behavior Unlimited
- Thermal Mass | Heat Flow I Unlimited
- Heat Flow II | Insulation Materials Unlimited
- Window Technologies | Shading Unlimited
- Ventilation Unlimited
- Internal Gains | Load Calculations Unlimited
- HVAC for Small Buildings Unlimited
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