Steel Building Energy Management

Recommended Prerequisites

The pre-requisites of this course are those corresponding to the application for the MSc course CMM.

Teaching Methods

The teaching methods of lectures aim at the global learning of the discipline.

The lectures are supported in the literature and presentations, with the support of media. There is an opportunity to discuss the concepts and more difficult issues. Occasionally students are invited to attend lectures by visiting specialists. Tutorial lessons (37.5 hours) will be to answer questions and to help in the final project.

Learning Outcomes

The students should learn to evaluate the importance of energy management in buildings, in particular steel-framed buildings, and to propose measures to improve its energy efficiency.

The skills to be developed include: performing the energy balance of buildings; select the type and thickness of the thermal insulation and the most suitable place to apply it; choosing heating systems, cooling and hot water production more appropriate/efficient; select and integrate systems in buildings to produce renewable energy.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

 - Concepts of heat transfer in buildings

 - Energy balance in buildings

 - Insulation technology

 - Heating systems

 - Cooling systems

 - Domestic hot water production systems

 - Systems of autonomous renewable energy production

 - Integration of energy systems in buildings.

Assessment Methods

Continuous
Project: 50.0%
Exam: 50.0%

Bibliography

Moran, M.J., Shapiro, H.N., Munson, B.R and DeWitt, D.P., “Introduction to Thermal Systems Engineering: Thermodynamics, Fluid Mechanics as Heat Transfer”, John Wiley & Sons, 2003.

Richard T. Bynum, Jr, “Insulation Handbook”, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc, 2001.

Keith J. Moss, “Energy Management in Buildings”, Taylor & Francis, 2^nd edition, 2006.

Norbert Lechner, “Heating, Cooling, Lighting: Design Methods for Architects”, John Wiley & Sons, 2^nd Edition, 2001.