Credits: 3 (3-0-0)
Description
Introduction to environmental features relevant to functional design. Their measures description and quantification. Periodic nature of variation of environmental descriptors. Heat exchange of building with environment under diurnal periodic variation temperature and modelling. Estimation of hourly internal temperature through CIBS method. Thermal Design philosophy and optimization for decision variables such as shape, orientation, envelope properties etc. Purpose of ventilation, wind and stack effect as driving force. Design for desired flow and indoor velocity. Fundamentals of acoustics, Sound ion free field and enclosure. External and Internal air borne noise control. Protection against structure borne noise. Lighting principles and daylighting. Day light factor, and design for desired illumination and glare free lighting.