Module overview:
This module covers the basic design methods for heating, ventilating and air-conditioning systems used in modern buildings. It also considers modern building design and occupier satisfaction. The aim of this module is to provide students with an appreciation of building services design, modern methods of energy control in buildings and comfort and occupier satisfaction.
*Curricular information is subject to change
- Modern building design, construction materials, methods and strategies to include: walls, floors, ceilings, roofs, floors, and fenestration.
- Calculation of U values for building elements.
- Steady state heat loss calculations for buildings using transmission and infiltration losses.
- Design of medium temperature hot water systems, pipe sizing, pipe distribution diagrams, heat exchangers, flow and return temperatures, energy balance.
- System components and design and control of a constant air volume air-conditioning system, supply temperatures, duct sizing, duct distribution, air distribution in rooms, air-handling unit (sample calculations). System components and design of an air and water air-conditioning system, supply temperatures, pipe distribution, fan-coil unit (sample calculations).
- An introduction to Fire engineering: Combustion; fire within buildings; fire barriers; detection and suppression; smoke control.
- An introduction to acoustics; sound propagation and decibel scale; SWL, SPL and octave band analysis; Mechanism of hearing; noise criteria curves NR and NC. Legal standards for noise levels; sound transmission and absorption.
- Comfort conditions, resultant, environmental, mean radiant temperatures. Dry bulb, wet bulb temperatures, Ventilation rates. The visual and aural environment,
- Control systems for buildings, BMS, controllers, field devices etc.
The module will be delivered by means of lectures and laboratory classes.
Use will be made of modern software packages to calculate heat losses and heat gains in buildings.
| Module Content & Assessment | |
|---|---|
| Assessment Breakdown | % |
| Formal Examination | 70 |
| Other Assessment(s) | 30 |