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64044 Heat and Moisture Conditions of the Envelope of Buildings
Danish title: Klimaskærmens varme- og fugttekniske forhold
Language: Danish Credit points: 5
Type: Open University
Language: Danish

Previous course: 64205
No credit points with: 64205/C6405
Prerequisite: 64040/64201
Recommended semester: 4th - 6th semester
Scope and form: Lectures and exercises.
Examination: Evaluation of compulsory reports. (13-scale)
Participant limitation: max. 50

Contact person: Carsten Rode, Building 118, Tel. +45 4525 1852, email car@ibe.dtu.dk, http://www.ibe.dtu.dk/medarbej/car/car.htm

Department: Department of Buildings and Energy
Aim: To give the students a thorough knowledge of the building envelope's significance for keeping a good thermal indoor climate with the least consumption of energy, and an understanding of how the choice of materials and configuration of structures influence the thermal resistance and moisture conditions of the building envelope. To enable the students to carry out a hygrothermal specification of the building components that form part of the building envelope, set up and calculate multidimensional or transient heat and moisture balances for building components, spaces and buildings.
Contents: Calculation of energy consumption for heating of spaces and buildings. Computer programs for buildings with many spaces (zones) and systems for heating, cooling, and ventilation. Theory of transient and multidimensional heat transport. Computational models for transient thermal analysis of buildings. Analysis of the influence of the building envelope on indoor climate and energy consumption. The dynamic thermal properties of building components. Analysis of thermal bridges. The hygrothermal properties of the building envelope. Advanced moisture transport theory (moisture accumulation, capillary transport, convection). Computational models for transient analysis of moisture conditions of building components. The composition of the building envelope in dwellings and commercial buildings. Insulation of technical systems at high and low temperatures. Measusing techniques for building physical investigations.