AF105V Buildings Energy Performance 1, - Evaluation 7.5 credits
The course will give a fundamental understanding of the factors that influence the energy consumption of a building. This includes the building envelope and services and also energy production for buildings and heat pumps.
Content and learning outcomes
Course contents
The course will give a fundamental understanding of those factors that influence a buildings energy consumption. This is for exemple knowledge needed for those who are going to work with eneregy declarations. This means the building envelope and the buildings service systems. The course also deals with energy production for buildings and with heat pumps.
Headings for the content of the course is: The building envelope, thermal insulations, thermal bridges and tightness. Calculation of thermal transmittance. The resaons for energy consumption. Estimation of the area of a building. Building services, thermal comfort and need for air flow. Calculation of energy need for heating. Systems for heating, ventilation and for making a good indoor climate. Energy – about its origins and quality. Effective energy production and equipment for production of heat and for cooling. Boilers and heat pumps. Use of different energy sources. Orientation about standards directed to the energy use of buildings.
Intended learning outcomes
After the course the student will have a fundamental understanding about the factors that determine a buildings energy consumption. Have an experience in calculations of heat prestanda in a building construction with data about materials and the construction as a starting point. Have been trained to make calculations of the influence of thermal bridges on energy prestanda. Also experience in calculation of the energy need caused by ventilation. Experience in calculation of the power need in a heat pump. The student shall be able to explain how different changes in a building will influence the energy consumption and also how it may influence other conditions of relevance for the building.
Literature and preparations
Specific prerequisites
Record of completed secondary education or equivalent including swedish and english.
Recommended prerequisites
Basics in natural sciences, or engineering on upper secondary level
Equipment
Literature
Compendium in buildings services technology. Compendium in building technology. Chapter in energy technology.
Examination and completion
If the course is discontinued, students may request to be examined during the following two academic years.
Grading scale
Examination
- LAB1 - Laboratory Work, 3.0 credits, grading scale: P, F
- TEN1 - Examination, 4.5 credits, grading scale: P, F
Based on recommendation from KTH’s coordinator for disabilities, the examiner will decide how to adapt an examination for students with documented disability.
The examiner may apply another examination format when re-examining individual students.
Project and exam done at home
Opportunity to complete the requirements via supplementary examination
Opportunity to raise an approved grade via renewed examination
Examiner
Ethical approach
- All members of a group are responsible for the group's work.
- In any assessment, every student shall honestly disclose any help received and sources used.
- In an oral assessment, every student shall be able to present and answer questions about the entire assignment and solution.
Further information
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Add-on studies
Buildigns energy performance 2 AF106V