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Academic unit or major
Undergraduate major in Architecture and Building Engineering
Instructor(s)
Yuasa Kazuhiro  Kagi Naoki 
Class Format
Lecture     
Media-enhanced courses
Day/Period(Room No.)
Tue5-6(W934)  Fri3-4(W934)  
Group
-
Course number
ARC.E202
Credits
2
Academic year
2018
Offered quarter
4Q
Syllabus updated
2018/3/20
Lecture notes updated
-
Language used
Japanese
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Course description and aims

This course on building services introduces an outline of building equipment, especially air conditioning units and plumbing systems, after lectures on environmental engineering and the planning of building services. Furthermore, the design of lighting, the thermal environment of cities and urban energy facilities are included.
The purpose of this course is for students to understand the design of air conditioning, thermal loads, air diagrams, air cleaning, water supply systems and so on.

Student learning outcomes

At the end of this course, students will be able to explain the basics and theory of air conditioning and plumbing systems and understand the design of each building service. Furthermore, students will gain an understanding of facilities such as the cleanroom, the design of lighting, the thermal environment of cities and urban energy facilities.

Keywords

Building service, Air conditioning equipment, Plumbing equipment, Lightning equipment, Urban facility

Competencies that will be developed

✔ Specialist skills Intercultural skills Communication skills Critical thinking skills ✔ Practical and/or problem-solving skills

Class flow

Each class is devoted to fundamentals and to advanced content or applications. To allow students to achieve a good understanding from the course, practice applications related to the contents of this course are provided. Attendance is taken in every class.

Course schedule/Required learning

  Course schedule Required learning
Class 1 Outline of building services Understand the course objectives.
Class 2 Air conditioning design Understand air conditioning design.
Class 3 Cooling and heating loads Understand cooling and heating loads.
Class 4 Heating, ventilating, air conditioning Understand heating, ventilating, and air conditioning.
Class 5 Heating equipment Understand heating equipment.
Class 6 Cleanroom, Maintenance of building sanitary Understand what a cleanroom facility is　and the maintenance of building sanitary and equipments.
Class 7 Thermal environment in urban areas Understand thermal environment in urban areas.
Class 8 Thermal environmental design for urban area Understand thermal environmental design for urban area.
Class 9 Lighting facility Understand lighting facility.
Class 10 Illumination design Understand illumination design.
Class 11 Design of plumbing sanitary Understand design of plumbing sanitary.
Class 12 System of plumbing sanitary Be able to explain the features of a building's water supply and drainage equipment.
Class 13 Contamination control of plumbing sanitary Understand contamination control of plumbing sanitary.
Class 14 Urban energy facilities Understand urban energy facilities.
Class 15 New building services Understand new building services.

Textbook(s)

None.

Reference books, course materials, etc.

Shuji Fujii et al., Environmental Design & Buiding Systems, ISBN978-4-87071-135-8
Yasutaka Nakajima, Fumitoshi Kiya et al. Kenchiku Setsubi，ISBN4-254-26838-6

Assessment criteria and methods

Reports, exercise (30%) and final exam.(70%)

Related courses

  • ARC.E201 ： Environmental Engineering
  • ARC.E301 ： Applied Environmental Engineering and Buidling Services
  • ARC.E303 ： Electrical Systems for Building
  • ARC.E304 ： Control of Building Services

Prerequisites (i.e., required knowledge, skills, courses, etc.)

No prerequisites.

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