Thermal and Energy Performance of Buildings

Recommended Prerequisites

1^st cycle studies: knowledge in the area of Building Physics or Heat Transfer Phenomena.

Teaching Methods

The theoretical and practical contents of the curricular unit will be presented through lectures illustrated whenever possible with practical cases. Students are encouraged to apply the competences acquired through practical and laboratorial activities, and to develop and to discuss research works.

Learning Outcomes

Provide students with the skills enabling them: to study the hygrothermal behaviour and energy performance of buildings; to master the methods for determining hygrothermal behaviour of construction solutions used on the building envelope; to identify opportunities for optimizing construction solutions and to select appropriated methods to assess their influence on the energy performance of buildings.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Fundamentals of heat and mass transfer

2. Thermal characterization of building envelope

3. Simulation models for calculating the thermal and energy performance of buildings

4. Rules of thermal quality, energy performance and indoor air quality

5. Concepts of rational use of energy

5.1. Bioclimatic strategies;

5.1.1. Solar shading geometry;

5.1.2. Solar heating systems;

.1.3. Passive cooling systems.

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Resolution Problems: 25.0%
Synthesis work: 25.0%
Exam: 50.0%

Bibliography

• Incropera, F. P.; Dewitt D. P., Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer, Fifth Edition, Wiley & Sons, 2002.

• Kreider, J. F.; Curtiss, P. S.; Rabl, A., Heating and Cooling of Buildings, Design for Efficiency, 2009.

• J.A. Clarke, “Energy Simulation in Building Design”, Butterworth Heinemann (2nd Edition), 2001.

• Piedade,A. Canha; Rodrigues, A. Moret, Térmica de edifícios – elementos sobre a transmissão do calor, 1998.

• Piedade, A. Canha, Térmica de edifícios – modelização do comportamento energético de edifícios, 1998.

• Rodrigues, A. Moret; Piedade,A. Canha, Humidade em Edifícios, 1998.

• Gonçalves, H.; Graça, J. M., Conceitos bioclimáticos para os edifícios em Portugal, DGGE/IP-3E, 2004.

• Dec- Lei nº 118/2013.

• Watson, Donald, La casa solar: diseño y construccion, Madrid: Hermann Blume, 1985.

• Viegas, João Carlos, Ventilação Natural de Edifícios de Habitação, LNEC, 1995.

• Silva, Armando Cavaleiro, Malato, João José, Geometria da insolação de edifícios Lisboa: LNEC, 1969.