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

Materiale didattico fornito durante il corso.

Kevin Ka-Lun Lau , Zheng Tan , Tobi Eniolu Morakinyo , Chao Ren,Outdoor Thermal Comfort in Urban Environment. Assessments and Applications in Urban Planning and Design, Springer International Publishing Switzerland, 2022

edited by Jan L.M. Hensen and Roberto Lamberts, Building performance simulation for design and operation, London: Spon, 2011, ISBN 9780415474146

Kristian Fabbri, La forma e la formula. La sostenibile leggerezza ovvero cosa intendi per sostenibilità, Libria Editore, Melfi,2023

Kristian Fabbri, Thermal Comfort Perception. Springer International Publishing Switzerland, 2024

Marco Pretelli, Kristian Fabbri, Historic Indoor Microclimate of the Heritage Buildings. A Guideline for Professionals who care for Heritage Buildings, Springer International Publishing Switzerland, 2018, ISBN 9783319603414

Clarke J.A,, Energy simulation in building design - 2. Ed, Oxford: Butterworth Heinemann, 2001, ISBN0750650826

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