ENAE607-24X (C) General non-calendar-based 2024

Building Energy Systems Design Practice

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 30 September 2024
End Date: Sunday, 8 December 2024
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 13 October 2024
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 17 November 2024

Description

This course applies energy engineering principles and design methods to the professional practice of building energy system design. The course covers process and technical aspects of designing efficient and sustainable energy systems for buildings at various phases of a building project; project initiation, concept and preliminary design, and developed and detailed design. Learning includes design projects and case studies.

This course applies energy engineering principles and design methods to the professional practice of building energy system design. The course covers process and technical aspects of designing efficient and sustainable energy systems for buildings at various phases of a building project; project initiation, concept and preliminary design, and developed and detailed design. Learning includes design projects and case studies.

The course covers the following topics:

• Building Energy Systems and Equipment
• Heat pump system: performance, selection, and design
• Chilled and hot water system and Pipe system design
• Thermal energy storage
• Combined heat and power

Learning Outcomes

  • Gathering knowledge and staying appraised of the state of the art of best practice in the design and construction of low-energy buildings

  • Independently gathering, analysing and synthesising information required to develop energy solutions to support sustainable building design objectives.

  • Identifying, developing and evaluating potential building elements and energy systems that provide solutions to complex building design problems, considering relative feasibility, benefits, limitations and environmental impacts of a range of design options.

  • Developing and communicating concept and preliminary designs of energy systems for complex buildings, using active and/or passive strategies, including design features reports to document design development.

  • Selecting and sizing components of building energy systems required to meet design loads.

  • Developing specifications for building energy systems.

Prerequisites

Subject to approval of the Head of Department.

Timetable Note

The course runs over a period of eight weeks, with learning delivered through lectures, forums and tutorials, a 2-day workshop and independent learning. There are approximately 150 learning hours in total, comprising:

Online lectures and tutorials 10 hours
Workshop 16 hours
Independent learning 112 hours (project work and reading)

Course Coordinator

Wentao Wu

Lecturer

Wentao Wu

Assessment

Project
Designing chilled water system for a museum
50%

Project
Designing a heat pump system for an office of a museum
50%

Total 100%

Textbooks / Resources

All required course material will be provided to students.
Recommended textbook:
2020 ASHRAE Handbook – HVAC Systems and Equipment

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,197.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Civil and Natural Resources Engineering .

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