Building Energy Performance Rating and Programming
| Code | School | Level | Credits | Semesters |
| ABEE4100 | Architecture and Built Environment | 4 | 10 | Spring UK |
- Code
- ABEE4100
- School
- Architecture and Built Environment
- Level
- 4
- Credits
- 10
- Semesters
- Spring UK
Summary
For building professionals (e.g. architects, engineers and others from relevant professional backgrounds) to be able to design buildings with an optimised energy saving shape, layout and structure and make the best use of available renewable energy sources/technologies, they need detailed knowledge and understanding of key parameters/factors involved and their impact on building energy performance/rating.
This module provides students from architecture, engineering and other relevant professional backgrounds a powerful research tool, which can be used to gain understanding of key parameters affecting building heating and cooling load calculations, to model the performance of passive solar systems, such as Mass Walls, Sun-spaces and Water Walls, and model the performance of PV systems and wind turbines.
Designed to support students who have little or no previous experience of computer programming, this module allows them to develop their own software tools for modelling building energy performance and gain in-depth understanding of the key design parameters/variables. Use is also made of commercially available energy modelling/simulation tools (e.g. EnergyPlus) to carry out advanced simulations/research on renewable energy and energy efficient design applied to complex building forms.
Target Students
Strictly, Postgraduate students only. MSc Renewable Energy and Architecture plus Postgraduate Taught Students in the Faculty of Engineering. Registration on a Postgraduate Taught Programme in the Faculty of Engineering. Registration and attendance of (ABEE4101) Passive Solar Design Principles and Simulation. Students MUST register in this module to attend lectures. This module is not open to exchange students.
Classes
- One 2-hour lecture each week for 12 weeks
Assessment
- 100% Coursework 1: Written report, based on energy efficient design and computer simulations.
Assessed by end of spring semester
Educational Aims
This module aims to provide students from architecture, engineering and other relevant professional backgrounds computer programming skills, which they can use to gain a better understanding of the key parameters used in building heating and cooling load calculations, model the performance of passive solar systems, such as Mass Walls, Sun-spaces and Water Walls, and model the performance of PV systems and wind turbines.Learning Outcomes
Knowledge and Understanding:
Key parameters/equations used in building heating and cooling loads calculation, modelling performance of passive solar systems such as Mass Walls, Sun-spaces and Water Walls.
Intellectual skills:
Design and modelling of energy efficient building form, layout and structure.
Professional/practical skills:
User-friendly computer programming and energy software development and validation.
Transferable/key skills:
The application of computer programming technique to improving building energy performance and assessment and selection suitable building materials.