The skills and knowledge that are expected at the end of the lectures include the ability: - to assess the requirements for a correct energy design of a building, including thermal comfort and IAQ requirements and the energy efficiency requirements of the various building components and installations, - to calculate heating and cooling loads for a building, - of designing advanced envelope and technical building systems as to optimize the energy performance of buildings and the indoor environmental quality, - of developing the design for the energy retrofit of buildings, - of managing and documenting at the professional level the energy design of buildings.

Basic knowledge of mathematics and of building physics (BSc level).

Lectures are organized as theoretical lectures, practical lessons (oriented to the design) and experimental exercises. The main topics covered by the course are: A) Indoor environmental quality and indoor environmental control - Basic concepts on thermal comfort, PMV method and basics of adaptive comfort - Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) and ventilation, pollutants classifications, prescriptive and performance base methods, objective and subjective IAQ assessment, - Technologies for the IAQ control and fundamentals of ventilation, a - Air tightness and air distribution in buildings - Basic concepts of the indoor environmental quality (IEE) B) Technical building systems - Basic concepts on HVAC systems, their classifications and main features, - Ventilation systems and strategies: technologies and analysis methods - Heat generators and storage systems, RES generation - Lighting systems C) Thermal loads and indoor temperature under design conditions - Assessment of the design heating load (accordingly to standard UNI EN 12831), - Assessment of the design cooling load/temperatures (accordingly to the simplified method based on a 24 hours steady periodic regime), - Basic concepts about software for building energy modelling. D) Energy and environmental legislation - European directives on energy performance of buildings and RES - Energy performance and RES requirements according to national legislation E) Advanced building skins - Basic concepts of adaptive façades, insulation, thermal storage, solar control - Advanced materials and products, PCM, VIP, smart glazing, solar shadings - Green roof, double skin façades, active façades smart, integration of building services - Advanced calculation methods of optical and thermal performance parameters F) Energy management and automation of buildings - Long term monitoring of energy and energy-related variables - Building automation and control systems and effect on energy performance and IEQ - Principles of technical management of buildings

Teaching is organised in theoretical lectures, application lectures (design) and in experimental exercises. The design application lectures consist of the development of the energy design of a new or an existing building; in particular, the object of this design exercise will be the same adopted in the frame of the “Integrated Design for Sustainable Building”. The design exercise includes: the assessment of the design heating/cooling loads and of indoor temperatures, the energy design of the building envelope and of HVAC systems, the assessment of the thermal comfort condition and of the indoor air quality, the check of compliance with legislative requirements. The experimental exercises will be centred on the measurement of the thermal comfort and of the indoor microclimatic variables, of the indoor air quality and/or the measurements of the thermal parameters of the envelope components.

Lecture notes, material, slides, references to technical standards distributed by the teachers. Slides of the IDES-EDU project (www.ides-edu.eu) Suggested references: - Desideri U.; Asdrubali F. (Eds.), Handbook of Energy Efficiency in Buildings., OXFORD: Butterworth-Heinemann, Elsevier, ISBN: 978-0-12-812817-6 - Corrado V., Fabrizio E., “Fondamenti di Termofisica dell’Edificio e Climatizzazione (Seconda edizione)”, Torino: CLUT, 2014 - Stefanutti L. (a cura di), “Manuale degli impianti di climatizzazione”, Milano: Tecniche Nuove, 2008. - ASHRAE, “Handbook of Fundamentals”, Atlanta: ASHRAE, 2017. - AICARR, “Manuale d’ausilio alla progettazione: Miniguida AICARR (III Edizione)”, Milano: AiCARR, 2010. - Capozzoli A., Corrado V., Gorrino A., Soma P., “Atlante nazionale dei ponti termici conforme alle norme UNI EN ISO 14683 e UNI EN ISO 10211”, Borgomanero (NO): Edilclima, 2011

Exam: Compulsory oral exam; Paper-based written test with video surveillance of the teaching staff; Computer-based written test using the PoliTo platform; Group project;

EXAM DESCRIPTION The exam consists of two parts, both compulsory: a written test and an oral interview. The written test is structured in two parts: • a theory test, with four open questions that require a synthetic answer (duration 40 min), aimed at verifying the acquisition of basic knowledge, and • a numerical exercise (duration 1 hour and 30 min), aimed at verifying the ability to apply theoretical concepts. The oral interview is aimed at verifying the design skills. It consists of the presentation and critical discussion of the final product of a design exercise; the student will have to justify the design choices and calculation results on the basis of the knowledge acquired in the theoretical lectures. Questions and insights on the theory are possible during the oral interview. EXAM PROCEDURE The theory test with open answers will be carried out online, via PC by using the Polito exam platform integrated with proctoring tools (Respondus). The numerical exercise will be carried out online, as paper-based written exams with video surveillance by professors with the tool of the Virtual classroom of the Polito teaching portal. The numerical exercise will start 1,5 hours after the start time of the theory test. The oral interview will be carried out online, with the tool of the Virtual classroom of the Polito teaching portal. The oral interview will be scheduled within one week of the written test. EXAM RULES The written test and oral interview must be taken in the same session. The exam booking on the didactics portal is mandatory. If one fails the oral interview, also the written test must be repeated. During the theory test the student is not allowed to use any support (book, note, lecture notes, slide, technical standards, others). During the numerical exercise the student is allowed to consult: technical standards (the own student copy), books, notes, lecture notes, slides. GRADING Each part of the written test is worth of 16 points (total 32 which corresponds to 30 cum laude). If the total grade of the written test is equal or above 15/30, the student can access to the oral interview. The final grade of the exam is the arithmetic average of the grades obtained for the written test and for the oral interview (with a minimum grade of 15/30 for each of the two parts).

Exam: Written test; Compulsory oral exam; Paper-based written test with video surveillance of the teaching staff; Computer-based written test using the PoliTo platform; Group project;

EXAM DESCRIPTION The exam consists of two parts, both compulsory: a written test and an oral interview. The written test is structured in two parts: • a theory test, with four open questions that require a synthetic answer (duration 40 min), aimed at verifying the acquisition of basic knowledge, and • a numerical exercise (duration 1 hour and 30 min), aimed at verifying the ability to apply theoretical concepts. The oral interview is aimed at verifying the design skills. It consists of the presentation and critical discussion of the final product of a design exercise; the student will have to justify the design choices and calculation results on the basis of the knowledge acquired in the theoretical lectures. Questions and insights on the theory are possible during the oral interview. EXAM PROCEDURE The theory test with open answers will be carried out, either online via PC by using the Polito exam platform integrated with proctoring tools (Respondus), or onsite. The numerical exercise will be carried out, either online as paper-based written exams with video surveillance by professors with the tool of the Virtual classroom of the Polito teaching portal, or onsite. The numerical exercise will start 1,5 hours after the start time of the theory test for the online exam, immediately after the end of the theory test for the onsite exam. The oral interview will be carried out, either online with the tool of the Virtual classroom of the Polito teaching portal, or onsite. The oral interview will be scheduled within one week of the written test. EXAM RULES The written test and oral interview must be taken in the same session. The exam booking on the didactics portal is mandatory. If one fails the oral interview, also the written test must be repeated. During the theory test the student is not allowed to use any support (book, note, lecture notes, slide, technical standards, others). During the numerical exercise the student is allowed to consult: technical standards (the own student copy), books, notes, lecture notes, slides. GRADING Each part of the written test is worth of 16 points (total 32 which corresponds to 30 cum laude). If the total grade of the written test is equal or above 15/30, the student can access to the oral interview. The final grade of the exam is the arithmetic average of the grades obtained for the written test and for the oral interview (with a minimum grade of 15/30 for each of the two parts).