Knowledge on the climatic condition and solar radiation

Interpret and evaluate solar, climatic conditions in a certain location required to evaluate the impact of solar radiation and other climate parameters on building performance

Responsibility for advice the client and ensure the project design in terms of location and climate conditions

Knowledge on the general concepts on the building physics characteristics energy balance.
Knowledge (specialized, factual and theoretical) of Heat Transfer – Principles, mechanisms, thermal conduction, thermal convection, thermal radiation, transfer of energy by phase changes.

Cognitive and practical skills required to (1) evaluate thermal balance in buildings, heat transfer; (2) assessing the influence of each parameter on the energy balance of the building.

Responsibility for providing proper assessment and calculations on the building performance and thermal balance in buildings
Responsibility for decision-making contributing to professional knowledge during the design process of energy saving buildings

Knowledge on the different performance design and the main characteristics and standards (Passive house, NZEB, …)
Knowledge about the integrated energy design principle
Basic Knowledge about comfort in buildings and healthy indoor climate, including indoor air quality, thermal comfort, acoustics, visual comfort
Knowledge about tools and methods to be used for building performance evaluation

Cognitive and practical skills required to:

Interpret and propose an Integrated Energy Design steps and principles
Ability to explain the importance of comfort in buildings and healthy indoor climate, and describe the main criteria and factors that affect human comfort in buildings: criteria for thermal comfort, understand noise generation and present criteria for acoustic comfort, understand visual comfort and present criteria for lighting and glare, air qulity
Ability to use tools and devices for measurement and control to determine the parameters of air quality and comfort of the space environment

Responsibility for advice and support stakeholders in promoting high energy and thermal performing standards
Responsibility for advice stakeholder for adopting integrated energy design principles
Responsibility best use of simulation tools for achieving high standards and bioclimatic design

Knowledge on the passive design principles and solutions for heating, cooling and day lighting
Knowledge about the influence of the building form, orientation, mass, thermal zoning in the bioclimatic design
Knowledge about the solutions, strategies and optimal use of passive heating, cooling, natural ventilation, natural lighting

Cognitive and practical skills required to
Interpret and evaluate the importance of passive design in bioclimatic, solar buildings, nZEBs
Cognitive and practical skills required to
Interpret, evaluate and apply principles and solutions of passive design in bioclimatic, solar buildings, nZEBs
Cognitive and practical skills required to
identify passive solutions

Responsibility for advice the client to choose the best solution for passive solutions and the benefits of these
Autonomy, and/or management and supervision
within the guidelines of work related to the bioclimatic design

Knowledge on the general concepts of building envelope and building elements
Knowledge of direct passive solar systems in, building envelope – design considerations, heat accumulating mass and transparent elements of the building envelope, limitation of heat losses, prevention of overheating
Knowledge about strategies and technologies related to renewable systems and their integration in façades of buildings;
Knowledge about examples of Integration of renewable solar energy
Knowledge about experimental and numerical approach for evaluation the thermal behavior of integrated systems in façades

Cognitive and practical skills required to asses heat transfer in building façade
Cognitive and practical skills required to asses heat transfer in building façade
Cognitive and practical skills required to Interpret, evaluate and apply solutions for solar building envelope
Cognitive skills required to identify integration methods of renewable systems in building envelopes
Cognitive skills required to asses experimental and numerical evaluation of the solar building envelope

Responsibility for supporting stakeholders in selecting and adopting appropriate solar building façade solutions

Knowledge on low environmental impact materials and their benefits. - Knowledge on the importance of building certification systems.
Knowledge on the certifications more accepted worldwide and in the country.

Cognitive and practical skills required to demonstrate the difference between low environmental impact materials and standard materials
Cognitive and practical skills required to analyze and compare the most important factors of each building certifications systems (including score given to bioclimatic design in the certification systems).

Responsibility for advice in the choice of low environmental impact materials.
Responsibility for advice about the building certification system more adequate.

Knowledge about real examples