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 702-219 Built-Environment Sciences

Credit Points

12.5

Coordinator

Mr N Bamford

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 two hours (which could take the form of a class test). Exercises may relate to work being undertaken in other subjects.



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