Course summary

Discover how building technologies can deliver occupant comfort whilst using energy and other resources responsibly. Subjects covered in this area of research include:

• Low/zero carbon buildings

• Eco-buildings; heat recovery systems

• Computer modelling and building physics

• Acoustics

• Lighting

• Heat transfer and 2-phase flow

• Building services (eg heating, refrigeration, air-conditioning)

• Indoor environmental quality (eg thermal comfort and air quality)

• Ventilation/natural ventilation

• Thermal modelling

• Post occupancy evaluation

• Biomimetics