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7 Lab Daylighting Analysis

By David Fannon

Lab exercise in which students construct a simple daylight model, predict the qualitative and quantitative distribution of light, and then measure the model under overcast conditions. Designed to be done as teams in a week, but could be expanded to address additional issues or made individual. See also the related Design exercise 8.

This exercise is based on and adapted from the work of Professor Charles Benton, U.C. Berkeley School of Architecture.
This work, including all images, is used with permission under a Creative Commons Non-Commercial Share-Alike license.

Thermal Imaging Lab

By Georg Reichard

A lab assignment that asks students to perform an enclosure assessment by detecting sources of air leakage and thermal bridging utilizing infrared thermography

In this lab we ask students to perform an enclosure assessment by detecting sources of air leakage and thermal bridging in one of our buildings using infrared thermometers along with infrared thermography.

Air leaks show up different from thermal bridges although they can often look similar on infrared images. They learn to distinguish between the two types and assess the consequences to a building’s enclosure performance.

Energy Simulation Game

By Holly Samuelson

This is a game to allow students to experiment with energy saving design strategies in buildings. Faced with a $ spending limit, students make choices to upgrade a building and compete to achieve the lowest EUI. This version uses DesignBuilder, and it helps if you have students or Teaching Assistants who can run the software.

This is a game to allow students to experiment with energy saving design strategies in buildings.  The included game files can be run in DesignBuilder/EnergyPlus.  Also included are a Game Brief (rules for participants), Order Form, and Instructions for Modelers.  If the participants know DesignBuilder they can run the simulations themselves.  If not, they can turn in Order Forms to a small group of teaching assistants who can run the simulations for them.

Understanding Climate for Design - A Game

By Holly Samuelson

This is a demonstration of a game I play with my students in my introduction to Environmental Systems class.
Students break into teams and are given charts, including solar sunpath diagrams and graphs from the tool Climate Consultant, representing one of three cities. They are taught how to read the graphs and charts, as well as solar geometry basics. Each team is tasked with describing their climate, and guessing their actual city.

Understanding Climate Game
This is a demonstration of a game I play with my students in my introduction to Environmental Systems class.

Water Supply Systems

By Georg Reichard

These are lecture slides for teaching water supply systems, components, and design considerations.

This lecture covers a set of slides for teaching water supply systems, components, and design considerations that I draw from when covering this topic in a Building Systems Technology course.

Water Supply System Understanding

By Georg Reichard

A lab assignment for students to study schematic riser diagrams

In this assignment I ask my students to study the schematic riser diagram and come up with question of

  • what they don't know,
  • what seems "strange" to them
  • and what is the purpose of each section.

They have to try on their own, then discuss in teams, and then develop strategies (identify methodologies) to find the best possible answers to their questions. This excercise starts in class, where I move from team to team to facilitate some of the questions for them to further their research.

Thermal Performance

By Georg Reichard

Lecture content for an introduction to the thermal performance of building enclosures

This lecture provides an introduction to thermal performance of building enclosures. It starts with repeating the principles of thermal heat transfer through the example of a fin tube radiator, which perfectly blends all these principles together. We then look at the different units for measuring heat and energy before moving to how we can characterize heat transfer through enclosure in a uniform way (U-Values and R-Values).

Project #1: Can You Go Carbon Neutral?

By Alison Kwok

A project consisting of a series of exercises related to your choices as a consumer of energy and a purchaser of products that consume energy.

This project consists of a series of exercises related to your choices as a consumer of energy and a purchaser of products that consume energy. Some of the exercises relate to your own personal energy choices, while others involve the design of a hypothetical small studio workspace located here in Eugene. This is an individual assignment. Discussions are encouraged, but any work you do must be on your own.

Building Physics - Test II

By Georg Reichard

A test set with questions ranging from heating loads, heating systems, water systems, to acoustic performance

This is the second test of three in this course. In this test we have questions on heating loads, heating systems, water systems, and acoustic performance.

Balance point Boxes

By David Fannon

Materials and assembly for the balance point boxes, a simple model of a building useful for teaching and testing understanding of thermodynamics. This design is based on the one used by Charles Benton and Gail Brager at UC Berkeley, and modified by David Fannon to pack more easily for storage, with 6 boxes in 2 large tote bins. See the 6 Lab: Balance Point Game for a way to use these in class.

Solar Transit

By David Fannon

This tool can be used to predict the location of the sun in the sky for any date/time combination, it may also be used as a regular transit to take a horizon survey of objects. It is a terrific way to make the abstract (and complex!) solar geometry real and physical, grounded on a specific site. This tool is based on and inspired by the ones used at UC Berkeley by Charles Benton and Gail Brager, and now adapted and updated by David Fannon. This page describes the materials and construction. See the assignment for a way to use them in class.

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