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Introduction
Published in Paul Tymkow, Savvas Tassou, Maria Kolokotroni, Hussam Jouhara, Building Services Design for Energy-Efficient Buildings, 2020
Paul Tymkow, Savvas Tassou, Maria Kolokotroni, Hussam Jouhara
The design of buildings is a complicated process of synthesis and iteration involving a range of disciplines. Building services engineering is one of the principal design disciplines alongside architecture and civil/structural engineering. Building services engineering is itself made up of a range of sub-disciplines, the principal disciplines for energy performance being mechanical and electrical engineering. Many of those entering the building services engineering profession are from traditional mechanical and electrical engineering undergraduate courses and have usually had only limited exposure to the wider issues involved in building design more generally, and energy-efficient buildings in particular. Many undertake master’s degrees in building services engineering, or similar courses, which often provide an element of conversion into their new field. For buildings to be successful in meeting the climate challenge alongside other aspirations such as the health and wellbeing of occupants, it is essential for all design professionals to work in a collaborative way. This requires mutual respect and a clear understanding of the wider context and common objectives. An essential feature of courses in building services engineering should therefore be to impart sufficient awareness of the environmental challenges and the nature of collaborative design, together with the range of interdisciplinary influences that need to be resolved and developed into a satisfactory design resolution. The emphasis throughout is on design approaches to achieve good whole-life performance.
Pre-construction
Published in Roy Chudley, Roger Greeno, Karl Kovac, Chudley and Greeno’s Building Construction Handbook, 2020
Roy Chudley, Roger Greeno, Karl Kovac
This professional body exists to support science, art and practice of Building Services Engineering. They provide internationally recognized codes of practice and guidance in: refrigeration, air conditioning, space heating plumbing, drainage and electrical and mechanical engineering.
Ventilation Strategies for Dwellings
Published in Rodger Edwards, Handbook of Domestic Ventilation, 2006
It is as a result of the work carried out by the BRE that the idea of sizing PSV ducts according to the room to be ventilated and its location was mooted, not only with the purpose of ensuring adequate levels of extraction, but also to avoid excessive ventilation by using too large a diameter of duct. In terms of building services engineering practice, this approach was a reasonable one to take. The inadequacy of 100-mm ductwork for use in kitchens, in the opinion of the author, clearly established as a consequence of the BRE work.
Experimental investigation of thermal vehicular environment during the summer season
Published in Science and Technology for the Built Environment, 2022
Paul Danca, Florin Bode, Amina Meslem, Cristiana Croitoru, Mihnea Sandu, Ilinca Nastase, Catalin Lungu, Loretta Batali
A thermal manikin is associated with the local heat balance of some defined zones. The thermal manikin used in this study was conceived at the Building Services Engineering Faculty (CAMBI Research Center) and it has an advanced human anatomic shape, with 79 independent active zones, 395 temperature sensors and its own in-house software for data acquisition and control of the body zone’s surface temperature (Ursu et al. 2018). If we compare to classical measurement systems – like the aforementioned comfort meter which offer the possibility of estimating the global PMV, a thermal manikin gives us the advantage of a local scale through its different segments. The segments, that are heating and measuring circuits, represents the body parts. In this way a local sensation can be foreseen through the equivalent temperature or through a derived local PMV.
Role requirements in academic recruitment for Construction and Engineering
Published in European Journal of Engineering Education, 2021
Nick Pilcher, Laurent Galbrun, Nigel Craig, Mike Murray, Alan M. Forster, Stuart Tennant
Sources for adverts were primarily ‘jobs.ac.uk’ and Collaborative Network of Building Researchers (CNBR). Over 1,000 webpages were viewed and 202 adverts were downloaded. The vast majority related to the wider built environment and civil engineering disciplines (Construction Project Management, Quantity Surveying, Building Surveying, Planning, Real Estate, Architecture, Interior Design, Building Services Engineering, Civil Engineering, and Structural Engineering). The majority of adverts come from University institutions characterised as Post 92. These are former Polytechnic institutions known today as the Post 92s as they were given deregulated degree-awarding status in 1993 by government act. These institutions largely focus on vocational subjects. This was unintended. The aim of the paper was to analyse job adverts in the HEI sector as they appeared over time as opposed to targeting specific types of institution such as Post 92s. Rather, it is simply the case that historically, it is this category of HEI where Built Environment or Construction Departments typically reside.
Research on integral design and planning processes for adaptive buildings
Published in Architectural Engineering and Design Management, 2020
Sophia Leistner, Clemens Honold, Mathias Maierhofer, Walter Haase, Lucio Blandini, Werner Sobek, Daniel Roth, Hansgeorg Binz, Achim Menges
In order to provide an overview of the relevant parameters for the proposal of an integral process for the planning and designing of adaptive buildings, a literature research was carried out, thus leading to a selection of relevant references (Bergmann, 2019; CIOB, 2014; Fang Chen, Nunamaker, Romano, & Briggs, 2003; Farwick et al., 2014; Ganten, 2014; HOAI, 2013; Jasper & Marx, 2019; Landowski, 2017; Lorenz, 2010; Migliaccio & Holm, 2018; Neufert, 1964; Pheng, 2018; Rusch, 2017; Scholz et al., 2017; Sears, Sears, Clough, Rounds, & Segner, 2015; Volkmann, 1999; Walker, 2015; Wanninger, Stolze, & Kratzenberg, 2006; Ward, 2018; Wirth, Broocks, & Würfele, 2013; Yang, 2017). The results of the literature search and the analysis of the HOAI were summarized in an abstract site-oriented sequence diagram, as can be seen in Section 3.1. In the diagrams, each column corresponds to a planning participant. In addition, interviews with experts in the field of architecture, civil engineering as well as building services engineering were conducted. These experts were consulted to finalize and verify the prepared diagrams. In the consultation, the respective planning step with the task linkages were evaluated, discussed and adjusted step by step in each phase for each specialist area. In so doing, areas that require improvements with regard to the characteristics of adaptive buildings have been highlighted. Section 3.2 focuses on the critical aspects of conventional planning, thus leading to the recommendation for adaptive buildings shown in Section 4.1.