Course Overview
Presents an overview of various conventional energy dependent building systems, conventional and alternative passive systems, and their interaction with each other, including lighting, heating, cooling, and ventilation. Examines non-mechanical building systems, such as building envelope, insulation, windows, glazing, as well as building systems controls. Strategies for existing buildings will be differentiated from those for new construction, with focus on energy management in existing buildings. Building performance improvements, including energy performance, through building recommissioning or continuous commissioning, will be examined. Introduces energy performance simulation (computer modeling) as a tool to establish baselines and change scenarios for energy reduction strategies.
Prerequisite(s)
Credits
3.0
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Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Identify types of building structure, envelope, glazing, building orientation and relative energy demand impacts.
- Describe energy systems integration and interaction, including active and passive systems (Active: HVAC & R, pumps, fans, motors, boilers, lighting, non-lighting such as computing, and Passive: thermal mass, natural ventilation, shading, ground source and solar for pre-heating/pre-cooling, daylighting).
- Describe various opportunities for active and passive systems to increase energy efficiency of buildings.
- Differentiate between strategies implemented during routine maintenance, those requiring capital upgrades, and those implemented only during new construction.
- Explain various building automation and controls strategies that can be used to reduce energy demand including opportunities for improving how existing buildings operate by recommissioning or continuous commissioning of existing buildings against building design parameters.
- Describe the need for, process, methods, and benefits of energy performance simulations and identify systems whose performance can be modeled with various computer simulation model programs and tools.
Effective as of Spring/Summer 2009
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