Indoor Environmental Comfort in Buildings

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Learning Outcomes

1. To know the technical, regulatory and regulations related to several areas of analysis of indoor environmental quality;

2.  Ability to integrate information on various aspects relevant to the piecemeal environmental quality indoors (indoor air quality, thermal environment, noise, vibration, lighting).

3. Ability to perform diagnostics of the quality of the indoor environment and propose improvement measures. 4. Ability to integrate knowledge related to the Indoor Environmental Quality in professional activities related to design, construction, installation, operation, licensing, and maintenance of buildings and systems.

5. Ability to act as agents of dissemination of knowledge related to the discipline, notably through awareness of the need to harmonize the concerns about indoor environmental quality with the need for rational use of energy.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Module 0 | Course overview
Module 1 | Thermal environment
Module 2 | Indoor air quality
Module 3 | Noise and vibration
Module 4 | Lighting

Assessment Methods

Assessment
A continuous evaluation process will be used, carried from the implementation of specific activities, and the progression of the trainee to the next module will depend on the completion of the activities proposed in the previous modules.: 100.0%

Bibliography

Apontamentos e Apresentações do Curso.
2005 Ashrae Handbook – Fundamentals American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Atlanta, USA.
P. O Fanger , Thermal Comfort, Danish Technical Press.
F. J. Rey Martinez, R. Cena Callejo – Edificios saludables para trabajadores sanos: calidade de ambientes interiors, ed. Junta de Castilla e León, 2006.
Griffin, M.J. (1990) Handbook of Human Vibration, Academic Press, London.
Beranek, L.L. 1996. Acoustics. Ed. McGraw-Hill.
S Corgnati, M. Gameiro da Silva. 2012 – Indoor Climate Quality Assessment, guidebook nr. 14 of REHVA, Brussels.
M. C. Gameiro da Silva, “Virtual Laboratories for a Course about Indoor Environmental Quality”, Special Issue of International Journal on Emerging Technologies in Learning, November 2009 doi:10.3991/ijoe.v5s2.1107.
M. C. Gameiro da Silva “ Aplicações Computacionais para Avaliação do Conforto Térmico, Revista Climatização, nº 56, Ano VIII, Março/Abril de 2008, pp 56-68.