Given sufficient data, including the REVIT project file (attachced), lectures on climate region, and the materials lectures and videos, determine the LCA for the building scenario below.
In these slides you can find the information on how to calculate sound diffusion coefficient and one example that shows the use of acoustics wave-based modeling for large scale.
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.
This is a 50 minute quiz. It involves analyzing passive strategies for a house in a hot humid climate.
Quiz questions dealing with climate and various sun charts
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.
A quiz covering questions dealing with sun shadows, heat loss, and infiltration.
This slide deck provides an intro to the different enclosure control layers before diving deeper into moisture control and its relevant material layers.
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.
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
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
A slide deck for a lecture on acoustics
Here we just write why we teach that or what it is used for.
Syllabi for third-year undergraduate architecture student required course, 100+ students, both semester of year-long sequence.
Syllabus for a graduate level elective on occupant behavior and health (for architects and related disciplines)
Holly W. Samuelson, Harvard Graduate School of Design
Topics: 1. Occupant behavior and its impact on building energy/environmental performance
2. Occupant health, including indoor air quality, toxic materials, design for physical activity, accessible design, lighting/views, circadian rhythms, biophilia, related rating systems, etc
Semester-long advanced elective for graduate architecture and post-professional students.
Holly Samuelson, Harvard Graduate School of Design
Focus is on learning energy simulation and using it to explore concepts of building physics and design, also includes limitations and shortcomings of simulation, as well as alternatives to simulation.
Syllabus for a 1/2 semester graduate-level elective for architecture and post-professional students. Focus is on daylight considerations in building design.
Topics include: qualitative and quantitative considerations, advanced daylight simulation, analog analysis methods (using heliodons, sun-path diagrams, & fish-eye lenses.)
Syllabus for half-semester grad course covering active building systems as well as daylighting and acoustics.
2018 Holly Samuelson, Harvard GSD
