Building Services I

Making water potable and getting it to the tap — the water supply project, sedimentation, slow/rapid/pressure sand filters, sterilisation and disinfection; distribution systems in buildings, pipes, laying/jointing/testing, prevention of wastage and reuse, and the byelaws.

Carrying it away and cleaning it up — primary and secondary sewage treatment, the activated sludge process, trickling and intermittent sand filters, the building's sewage treatment plant; and the collection, conveyance and disposal of town refuse.

The pipework of a building — the single-stack, one-pipe and two-pipe drainage systems, traps and trap seals, plumbing fixtures, materials and construction of sewers and connections, testing for water-tightness, the plumbing codes, and an introduction to BIM for coordinated plumbing layouts.

Power and light — the supply chain from transformer to distribution board, wiring systems and switchgear, electrical load calculation; and lighting design — sources and luminous efficacy, colour temperature and rendering, and the lumen method for sizing the lighting.

Conditioning the air — the vapour compression cycle and its components, air handling units and cooling towers, the types of AC system (window, split, packaged, central chilled-water, VRF), cooling load and the ton of refrigeration; and the fire protection an AC system demands — fire and smoke dampers.