Building Services Engineering

Assessment Brief:

Introduction

This assignment requires a team approach to assess the building services requirements of a given building and to propose appropriate services systems and solutions. Each project group has been allocated a building, and group members should discuss to allocate a specific group of services to design for that building, as indicated below.

You are asked to use the building services principles outlined through Building Services I and II courses and your own notes, reading and research, to develop a System Proposal for your case study building. It will be necessary to assess the specific needs of your case study building, and to consider which services will be most appropriate. It is important to give authority to your work by using your lecture notes, current legislation, research and good practice, and referring to standard methods and data. The design documents will be the case study building type, in the form of freehand sketches drawn by the Architect on a restaurant napkin, together with some more detailed instructions. Current architectural design has limited consideration in Façade Optimisation, so your design should consider the façade improvement, e.g. window area, shading devices, when needed.

The work of your group must be properly co-ordinated, highlighting the relationships between the various engineering disciplines (i.e. interdisciplinary consideration). The Architects' sketches do not include stairs, lifts & escalators, riser ducts, toilets or plant areas. The group must agree the size, number and location of these, very early in the design programme and incorporate them into their unidisciplinary design. Additionally, the group should select the Location of the building (within England) together to provide references to the system selection. The location selected should require both heating and cooling for the building. The design should be enhanced by holding managed meetings for which written records should be kept (no need to submit), covering attendance/involvement, strategy, progress, interrelation of services etc.

Requirements

The following tasks should be covered in this design project by the group, including approximate plant room size and location.

1. Cooling + Ventilation + Façade Optimization
2. Heating + Ventilation + Façade Optimization

3. Electrical Power & Cable Distribution
4. Lighting + Façade Optimization

5. Water Services (Hot and Cold)
6. Drainage (Soil & Waste + Rain Water)

Tasks 1 and 2 should be shared by TWO students, one doing Task 1 and another doing Task 2. However, due to the high links between Ventilation, Air-conditioning and Heating, the two students should negotiate alongside the whole design procedure to find the most appropriate solution. Tasks 3 and 4 should be addressed by ONE student and Tasks 5 and 6 should be addressed by ONE student. The tasks are arranged in related pairs and you are NOT at liberty to change the combination. For teams with three students, please select from the FIRST FOUR tasks.

For your final submission, please DO CHECK the Resolution, especially design drawings, to make sure the contents in your report can be seen clearly by the markers.

The report shall expand on the topics and shall include system selection criteria; relevant design drawings; relevant research; current installation techniques and references. You are expected to analyse the building conditions, develop your analysis to arrive at a suitable services solution, justify your proposals and show how your proposals link with other services and fit into the building. Detailed plant, distribution and equipment sizes, however, are NOT required.

Your analysis shall deal with the impact of the proposals on the building, relevant legislation, sustainability issues, etc. Plant room locations and their approximate sizes are required, together with main distribution routes and risers for each group of services.

The 3R's - rooms, routes & risers - shall be shown for each task.

Attachment:- Building services.rar