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The building's envelope

Industry-Specific
Digital Skills

Engineering, Construction, and Infrastructure

Duration

40 hours

PRESENTATION

The Course: The Building Envelope offers you a unique opportunity to enter a booming industry where the demand for skilled professionals is growing every day. Today, energy efficiency and comfort in architectural design are more important than ever. Through this course, You will acquire essential skills for optimizing a building's envelope, improving both its energy efficiency and the health and well-being of its occupants. You'll learn about the fundamental principles of energy efficiency and its application in modern buildings, while also exploring how it affects indoor health and comfort. This program will give you a competitive edge in the job market, allowing you to be part of the shift toward a more sustainable future. By taking the “Building Envelope” course, you will not only expand your knowledge but also become an agent of change in sustainable construction.

Objectives

– Understand the importance of the building envelope in a building’s energy efficiency.

– Identify key elements that improve the energy efficiency of the building envelope.

– Analyze how the building envelope contributes to thermal comfort in interior spaces.

– Assess the impact of the building envelope on the health of the building's occupants.

– Propose improvements to the building envelope to optimize energy consumption.

– Apply sustainability concepts to the building envelope.

– Identify efficient materials to improve the building envelope and comfort.

Syllabus

TEACHING UNIT 1. INTRODUCTION Building Energy Efficiency. Physical Concepts I Building Energy Efficiency. Physical Concepts II Bioclimatic Strategies Psychometric Diagram Bioclimatic Diagram TEACHING UNIT 2. ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND BUILDING ENVELOPE I Elements of the Building Envelope Characteristics of the Building Envelope Solar Shading Thermal Bridges THERM, software for calculating thermal bridges TEACHING UNIT 3. ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND BUILDING ENVELOPE II Heat transfer. Heat balance Air infiltration and ventilation through the building envelope Building envelope in nearly zero-energy buildings Energy retrofitting of the building envelope Examples TEACHING UNIT 4. HEALTH AND COMFORT Thermal comfort Acoustic and lighting comfort Natural lighting Natural ventilation Condensation prevention
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Are the Educa PHAROS courses eligible for credit?

Many courses can be credited toward the master's programs at Structuralia.
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