Course Details

1. Outline environmental issues and building services and the concepts of: basic environmental control systems and issues, and develop an intuitive understanding of how to apply these concepts to the design of buildings, water supply, waste sewage, storm water disposal, heating, cooling, lighting, electrical/mechanical systems work for the design of buildings.
2. Apply design procedures for buildings using environmental issues and services location.
3. Analyse environmental factors and their significance in building design.
4. Evaluate case studies: building services, urban design, sustainability issues.
5. Design case study for building services.

Water Supply:
-  Uses
-  Sources
-  Quality
-  Treatment
-  Storage and distribution

Sanitary Appliances:
-  Regulation
-  Materials
-  Appliances

Pipes:
-  Properties and applications of materials
-  Sizing and gradients
-  Examples

Drainage and Sewage:
-  Principles
-  Performance criteria
-  Drainage systems
-  Examples
-  Sewage disposal

Heat and Thermal Installation:
-  Thermal phenomena of significance in buildings
-  Heat insulation
-  Examples
-  Thermal installation

• Burberry P. “Environment and Services”, Longman, 1997

The course will be presented through theoretical lectures in class. The lectures will present to the student the course content and allow for questions. Part of the material will be presented using visual aids. The aim is to familiarize the student with the different and faster pace of presentation and also allow the instructor to present related material (photographs etc) that would otherwise be very difficult to do. Exercises will be given as homework (final project) which will be part of their assessment. Besides from the notes taken by students in class, all of the course material will be made available through the class website and also through MOODLE. Finally the instructor will be available to students during office hours or by appointment in order to provide any necessary tutoring.