12.5 Nick Bamford. Second semester Up to 6 hours of lectures, tutorials, site visits, and laboratory work per week. On completion of this subject students should be able to demonstrate that they:

• have developed an appreciation of the concepts of human comfort, heat flow, solar impact, energy use, natural and artificial lighting and acoustics, and their application to the buildings.
• are able to integrate, by qualitative and quantitative means, these concepts into design and construction, including the use of computer applications;
• have gained an appreciation technical report writing and of the role of consultants.

Thermal: Human comfort, heat flow, transmission, infiltration, control of solar impact, building envelope performance, heating and cooling loads, energy efficiency. Day lighting: perceptions, measurement and control; Artificial lighting: concepts, design calculations, modelling, use of technical data. Acoustics: Concepts and measurement of sound and noise, reverberation time, sound absorption and transmission, electro-acoustics. Materials: Embodied energy, sustainable resources. Assignments (eg: exercises, essays, class presentations), equivalent to not more than 5,000 words, and one examination of up to 2 hours (which could take the form of a class test). Details, including the weighting of assessment, will be made available in the first 2 weeks of semester. Exercises may relate to work being undertaken in other subjects.