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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning : Architecture

702-219 Built-Environment Sciences

Credit Points:

12.5

Coordinator:

Nick Bamford

Timetable:

Semester 2

Contact:

Up to 6 hours of lectures, tutorials, site visits, and laboratory work per week

Subject Description:

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.

Assessment:

Assignments (e.g. exercises, essays, class presentations), equivalent to not more than 5000 words, and one examination of up to 2 hours (which could take the form of a class test). Exercises may relate to work being undertaken in other subjects.

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