USE EFFICIENCY COURSE STRUCTURE

USE EFFICIENCY course will be included within the Master in Energy Technologies for Sustainability in the subject Energy Audits.

Course will be 200 hours long and it will be awarded with 3 credits, organized with the following structure:

• 8 Lectures (2 hours each)
• 2 Practice Labs (2 hours each)
• 5 Sessions of Problems and Cases (2 hours each)
• Continuous Training Session to carry out during the 2nd Level Audit (150 hours). Audits will be carried out in 4 groups of 10 students each.

The course will be taught from February to June 2011

Lectures: 2 hours per day

LECTURE 1 (Feb. 8th): Energy Performance Building Directive (EPBD)

LECTURE 2 (Feb. 15th): Audit Criteria

LECTURE 3 (Feb. 22th): Minimum content of an energy audit in buildings

LECTURE 4 (Mar. 1st): Information Collection. Questionnaire. Interviews

LECTURE 5 (Mar. 8th): Energy Balance.

LECTURE 6 (Mar. 15th): Load Curve Analysis.

LECTURE 7 (Mar. 22th): Energy Savings and Emissions Evaluation

LECTURE 8 (Mar. 29th): Customer Issues

Labs: 2 hours per day

LAB 1 (Apr. 19th) Building Energy Audit Software (CALENER & EPA)

LAB 2 (Apr. 26th) Measurement Equipments for auditing

Field Work: 150 hours for the 2nd Level Audit

TRAINING 1 (March - June) Critical Building #1

CONTACT PERSON FOR STUDENTS

Jaber-Taher Jaber

Phone: +34 96 387 72 70

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