After successful completion of the course, students are able to understand the necessary basics in the areas of Building Physics, Building Ecology, and Human Ecology.  These knowledge is required for architects to properly react to urgent questions of today's building domain (Energy usage of buildings, occupant's comfort, Performance of building in the hygrothermal, visual, acousticals, and other domains).

A special focus is put on an in-depth understanding of the scientific basics and relevant terminology of the mentioned areas.

Furthermore, students are motivated to train the relevant skills in building physics related domain knowledge.

Moreover, the interfaces to building construction, to regulations, and to technical and design-focused are elaborated within the lecture.

This lecture features the following contents:  

• Introduction to the fundamentals of building physics and building ecology
• Energy and mass transfer in building components
• Energy performance of buildings
• Determination of heating and cooling loads of buildings
• Solar controls and shading
• Thermal optimization of buildings
• Thermal comfort
• Energy-efficient and sustainable building design
• Human ecology
• Moisture control in buildings
• fundamental Overview on HVAC systems (heating, ventilation, air-conditioning)

Lecture with E-Learning Support.

• Examples
• Calculations (utilizing domain-specific tools and simply rule-of-the thumb assessment/manual calculation)
• Description where and when calculation schemes simulation could be deployed.

Changes following the Corona-Pandemie):

• see german version for details
• no lecture hall meetings (due to COVID19), course will be held completely in TUWEL.

Summerterm 2021: 

• course in TUWEL course. (detailed timetable under documents or in german version). 
• E-Mail Contact: only via lecture2593@tuwien.ac.at (Only mails adressed at this email-adress will be processed!)

Contact:

lecture2593@tuwien.ac.at (Subject: Number of lecture & issue; please include your full name and student-ID-number)

E-Mails to other adresses can not be processed.

• written exam
• registration via TISS is obligatory.
• see details in german version.
• Details see german version and in TUWEL

Register for TUWEL-Course-Access to access:

• Lecture Notes
• Tutorial-Videos
• Exam-Informations, Exercises
• etc.

Lecture notes for this course are available via TUWEL.

Literature (in German language) can be found at the TU-Library

Basic Knowledge of physics and mathematics!

Basic  Command of pocket calculators!

If you feel a certain lack in this knowledge, we strongly advise you to cover this fields of knowledge before attending the lecture!