Course Name: Building Environment Science

Course Code: S2293090

Semester: 1

Credit: 4

Program: Building

Course Module: Heating and Ventilation

Responsible: Tian Zhe

E-mail: tianzhe@tju.edu.cn

Department:Tianjin International Engineering Institute, Tianjin University

Time Allocation(1 credit hour = 45 minutes)

Course Description

This course is a professional basic course in building environment and equipment engineering. The course covers a wide range of topics, including heat and mass transfer, external and internal environment of building, building materials, indoor sound, light and electricity, and physical and psychological response of human body to environment.

Content of this course includes:

• external environment of building, including outdoor climate, motion law of the sun and the earth, and the influence on buildings,

• internal environment of buildings, including main pollution source of indoor air and evaluation indexes of indoor environment,

• thermal and humid environment of buildings, including the formation of thermal and humid load of buildings, calculation method of thermal and humid load,

• the laws of human body’s response to thermal and humid environment, and research on thermal comfort,

• luminous environment and acoustic environment of buildings, and

• indoor environment requirements of industrial buildings.

Prerequisite

Heat Transmission Science

Course Objectives

Students will understand the relationship between indoor environment and the physical and psychological aspects of human body, grasp basic theories to realize control and evaluation of indoor environment, grasp the basic principles for the calculation of thermal and humid load of buildings, and basic methods for creating suitable environments for work, production and life.

Course Syllabus

1. The law of influences of external environment on indoor climate, including influences of outdoor climates, and motion laws of the sun and the earth on buildings.

2. Internal environment of buildings, including generation of main pollution sources for indoor air, evaluation indexes for indoor environment, and physical meanings and calculation methods of ventilation rate, ventilation efficiency and air age.

3. Thermal and humid environment of indoor air, including the formation of indoor thermal and humid load, and calculation methods for thermal and humid load.

4. Law of human body responses to thermal and humid environment, and thermal comfort indexes of human body.

Textbooks & References

• Zhu Yingxin.Building Environment Science (3rded). China Architecture & Building Press, 2010.

• Huang Chen.Building Environment Science.China Machine Press, 2005.

Capability Tasks

CT1: To understand basic science, and to have analytical ability and the ability to integrate related knowledge.

CS2: Able to make intelligent monitoring for energy consumption, comfort degree and other physical performance of green buildings, and master active and passive technologies for green guarantee in the operation of buildings;

CS3: Able to make intelligent monitoring and evaluation on the soundness of buildings.

Achievements

• To comprehend the relationship between various meteorological factors and cooling and heating loads of buildings, such as solar radiation. –Level: N

• To comprehend thermal and humid transmission of building envelope and its calculation, calculation of internal thermal and humid loads of building, and calculation principles and methods of several kinds of cooling and heating loads. –Level: N

• To comprehend physical and psychological response of the human body to thermal and humid environment, the evaluation of comfort indexes of the human body in thermal and humid environment. –Level: N

• To understand the sources and ways of pollution of indoor air quality of buildings, influences of indoor air quality on the human body, and its evaluation method, indoor air quality standard, control methods of pollution of indoor air quality, etc. –Level: N

• To comprehend the influence of ventilation and air flow distribution on air quality, technical parameters of indoor air distribution, measurement and calculation methods of air distribution. –Level: N

Students: Building, Year 1