Energy Optimization of Buildings

1. Energy situation in the Federal Republic of Germany

2. Inner influences
- Humans
- Heat Transfer PhenomenaWärmetransportphänomene
- Physiological Data of Humans
- Inner Thermal Loads innere Wärmelasten
- Airquality
- Comfort Models, Criteria for Sense of Comfort
- Comfort Characteristics
- Excourse: Thermal Comfort in Vehicles

3. Cooling Technique
- History of Cooling Technique
- Einführung Introdin die Kälte-und Klimatechnik
- Klimatisierung
- Kälteerzeugung


4. General influences on the energy balance of buildings
- Optimization Aims and Characteristic Quantities
- Heat Transfer through Walls
- Insulants
- Thermal Protection Glasses / Systems of Sun Protections
- Latent Heat Storage

5. Outer influences
- Ambient Temperature
- Ambient Humidity
- Solar Irradiance
- Wind

6. Double-skin Facades – An Introduction into thermal and energetic Behaviour
- Introduction
- Definition of Double-skin Facades
- Klassifizierung von Doppelfassaden
- Double-skin Facades in Renovation of old Buildings
- Advantages and Problem
- Research

Basics of Heat- and Mass Transfer are recommended

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