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 702-219 Built-Environment Sciences

Credit Points

12.5

HECS Band

2

Coordinator

Dr Darko Radovic

Semester

2 (view timetable)

Contact

Up to four 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), to not more than 5000 words equivalent, one examination or class test of up to 2 hours.

Prescribed Texts
  • Energy Victoria, Energy Efficient Housing Manual. Melbourne, 1994.
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