Energy Rehabilitation of Buildings

Code: ERU10920O

6 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours

Scientific Area: Civil Engineering

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese

Sustainable Development Goals

4. Educação de qualidade - Assegurar a educação inclusiva, e equitativa e de qualidade, e promover oportunidades de aprendizagem ao longo da vida para todos.

Learning Goals

This curricular unit aims to prepare students for designing of buildings from thermal, acoustical, indoor air quality and daylighting point of view. It constitutes an introduction to the professional practice in these fields.

1. Environmental conditions required to obtain comfort. Thermal, acoustic and visual comfort and indoor air quality.
2. Thermal rehabilitation
2.1 Thermal comfort and energy efficiency.
2.2 Regulation requirements applicable to rehabilitation of existing buildings.
2.3 Diagnosis and intervention methodologies.
2.4 Assessment and energetic techno-economic interventions.
3. Acoustical rehabilitation
3.1 Regulation requirements applicable to rehabilitation of existing buildings.
3.2 Airborne sound insulation.
3.3 Impact sound insulation.
3.4 Room acoustics.
4. Luminic rehabilitation
4.1 Capture, transmition, distribution, protection and control.
4.2 Advanced daylighting systems.
5. Rehabilitation to provide indoor air quality.
5.1 Indoor pollutants sources.
5.2 Strategies to control indoor air quality.
5.3 Ventilation and indoor air quality.
6. Building rehabilitation solutions