Bioclimatic Design
:: Learning Program
Pre-curriculum conditions for participants
General: Basic knowledge about building physics, thermodynamics, heat transfer in buildings and parameters.
Bulgaria Croatia Poland Portugal Romania
Learning Outcomes
+–1. Climate analysis including solar geometry
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
Learning Unit Details
1.1 Solar radiation, temperature, natural resources
+–2. Basics of building physics
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
Learning Unit Details
2.1 General concepts
2.2 Energy balance
+–3. Buildings and Performance (Design for a multivariate condition)
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
Learning Unit Details
3.1 Climate, Buildings and Performance: Design for a multivariate condition (passive house, nZEB, …)
3.3 Integrated Energy Design
3.4 Indoor comfort, health, indoor air quality
3.5 Performance evaluation: tools&methods
+–4. Passive design principles and solutions for heating, cooling and day lighting
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
Learning Unit Details
4.1 Introduction and general principles
4.2 Building form, orientation, mass, thermal zoning
4.3 Passive heating strategies
4.4 Passive Cooling strategies
4.5 Natural ventilation
4.6 Natural lighting
+–5. Solar building envelope
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
Learning Unit Details
5.1 Introduction, building envelope and building elements
5.2 Strategies and technologies related to renewable systems and their integration in façades of buildings
5.3 Integration of renewable solar energy systems in façade (BIPV, trombe wall)
5.4 Evaluation of building envelope: experimental and numerical methods
+–6. Build with low environmental impact materials. Significance of Sustainable Building Certification Systems
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.
Learning Unit Details
Objectives: This topic concerns the use of low environmental impact materials in buildings, that help to reduce construction carbon footprint, and a general overview of building certification schemes.
6.1 Low environmental impact materials: importance, and benefits.
6.2 Natural materials: selection and use, including thermal insulation materials.
6.3 Sustainable Building Certification Systems: definition, types, importance, and benefits. (BREEAM, LEED, LiderA in Portugal)
+–7. Real examples, Case studies (+Technical/site visit)
Knowledge about real examples
Learning Unit Details
Technical visit on site