Sašo Medved - Building Physics: Heat, Ventilation, Moisture, Light, Sound, Fire, and Urban Microclimate

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Building physics is a research and applied scientific discipline that deals with the evaluation of physical phenomena related to heat transfer and energy use in buildings, water and water vapour transfer in building structures, daylighting and electric lighting of buildings, sound transmission in building structures and protection against noise, the occurrence and spread of fires in buildings and the thermal response of cities. Therefore, with the physical processes that affect the quality of the living and working comfort in indoor and outdoor environment, as well as impact of buildings on local and global environment, adequate knowledge in the field of building physics has become one of the basic engineering skills of building designers and urban planners.

In terms of content, the monograph Building Physics: Heat, Ventilation, Moistening, Light, Sound, Fire, and Urban Microclimate is related to a memorandum prepared by the Group of Professors of Building Physics at European Universities, initiated and led by Prof. Karl Gertis from the University of Stuttgart. The book presents the theoretical background of the considered physical processes, numerical and computational evaluation methods and numerous computational study examples. Each of the chapter guides the reader from basic physical descriptions to more complex scientific approaches. The book also contains numerous examples of experimental analyses performed by the staff of the Laboratory for Sustainable Technologies in Buildings at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ljubljana. In 2021, we are celebrating the 10th anniversary of the founding of the laboratory, and this book seems like an appropriate birthday present.

The author is grateful for the support and contribution of collaborators in research and application projects and involved masters and doctoral students. I would like to thank my colleagues Mr. Ciril Arkar, Mr. Botjan erne, Mr. Rok Fink, Mr. Toma uklje, Mr. Boris Vidrih and, especially, Mrs. Suzana Domjan without whose contribution this book would not have been written.

The book also includes the results of the research founded by the Slovenian Research Agency and by several industrial companies. I would like to thank them for their financial support.

I would like to express my gratitude to Prof. Ruica Nikoli from the University of ilina and Prof. Karel Kabele from Czech Technical University in Prague, who reviewed the book, for their opinions and suggestions.

Finally, I would like to thank my family for unwaveringly encouraging and supporting.

The book Building PhysicsHeat, Ventilation, Moisture, Light, Sound, Fire, Urban Microclimate by Sao Medved is a scientific monograph, which is a product of long-time research efforts (theoretical and experimental) by the author and his team from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ljubljana. This book is unique in that it manages to combine a scientific approach with examples of practical problems that we encounter in everyday life. The text is divided into seven chapters, titles of which are given in the subtitle of the book. The matter is presented in a logical order, the theoretical explanations are accompanied with numerous case studies, actually examples and solved problems, which masterfully complement the theory and complete any explanation of the topic in question. All these are enriched with numerous adequate illustrations in the form of diagrams, pictures and photographs, combined with tables and explanations. What must be emphasized is that the book also gives the historical prospective of development of the building physics problems, for each topic is covered with examples of its progress in time. This book is also a modern guide both for scientists who can find in it the theoretical background of physics problems in civil engineering and for construction engineers who can use its numerous examples for solving practical problems. This is valid for the usually considered classical physics problems of heating and ventilation, of light and sound spreading and fire safety, as well as for the more recently studied problems of urban development, microclimate of growing cities, climate changes and increasing air pollution. Thus, the book is highly recommended to all types of readers, even to those who are starting to study these problems.