82662 - Energy Efficient Building Design and Performance Assessment

Learning outcomes

This course provides the skills related to the energy efficiency of buildings, the application of renewable energy technologies (solar, geothermal, ...) integrated in the building and knowledge of systems and their performances in terms of energy efficiency. The student will be able to develop sufficient autonomy in his/her design choices concerning the building energy efficiency. In the design process, congruence between design choices, technological systems and solutions aimed at defining high performance integrated solutions is to be clear.

Course contents

The laboratory course is divide in 5 work-in-progress steps: general requirements; Environmental; Comfort level and building internal distribution of activity; Preliminary Design: technical solutions, energy performance of buildings evaluating and plant scheme; Definitive Design: verify energy performance of buildings evaluating and plant scheme
EEBDPA Course contents:
Buildings, energy and environment related to energy behaviour
International European, National and Emilia-Romagna Region standards, law and ruels about building energy minimum requirements
Energy Behaviour and Energy Design: Energy Performance of Buildings (EPB): calculation procedure, transmittance, Primary energy, plant scheme and typologies.
Virtual Modelling: building energy performance simulation, thermal comfort simulation, computer fluid dynamics, thermos-tecnical software assessment, energy labelling

Readings/Bibliography

edited by Jan L.M. Hensen and Roberto Lamberts, Building performance simulation for design and operation, London: Spon, 2011, ISBN 9780415474146
Clarke J.A,, Energy simulation in building design - 2. Ed, Oxford: Butterworth Heinemann, 2001, ISBN0750650826
K.Fabbri “ Progettazione Energetica dell'Architettura”, DEI-Tipografia del genio civile, Roma 2008
K.Fabbri “ Prestazione energetica degli edifici”, DEI-Tipografia del genio civile, Roma 2010
F.M.Butera “Dalla caverna alla casa ecologica. Storia del comfort e dell'energia” , Edilizio Ambiente, Milano, 2004

Teaching methods

Lesson ex-cathedra and meeting on design process and building simulation.
Assessment methods
Final project-design oral presentation and discussion

Teaching tools

Lesson, Journals and website paper.

Buildign Energy SImulation Software (Termolog, Dialux, Autocad CFD, Envimet, Ecotect,and other)

Office hours

See the website of Kristian Fabbri