Abstract
Building physics study the processes that occurs in the building structures that influence the indoor comfort and safety of inhabitants. A group of building physics professors at European universities, founded by Professor Karl Gertis, defined the following fields of interest: heat transfer in buildings, water and water vapour transfer in building structures including psychrometric process, lighting, building acoustics, fire development and fire protection in buildings, and urban microclimates. In this chapter, heat transfer in buildings and the basic psychrometry of air will be discussed as these process are directly involved in the assessment of the energy performance of a building. Elementary and essential indicators of building structures and buildings will be presented, and dynamic heat transfer in building structures will be discussed briefly.
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Directive 2010/31/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 May 2010 on the energy performance of buildings (recast) (Official Journal of the European Union, L 153/13).
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EN ISO 6946:2017 Building components and building elements—Thermal resistance and thermal transmittance—Calculation methods.
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WINDOW 7.0, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, USA.
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Trisco, version 12.0w, Physibel, Maldegem, Belgium.
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EN ISO 10211:2017 Thermal bridges in building construction—Heat flows and surface temperatures—Detailed calculations.
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Medved, S., Domjan, S., Arkar, C. (2019). Introduction to Building Physics. In: Sustainable Technologies for Nearly Zero Energy Buildings. Springer Tracts in Civil Engineering . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02822-0_3
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