2024 Faculty Courses School of Environment and Society Department of Architecture and Building Engineering Graduate major in Architecture and Building Engineering
Advanced Exercise in Building Services
- Academic unit or major
- Graduate major in Architecture and Building Engineering
- Instructor(s)
- Kazuhiro Yuasa / Naoki Kagi
- Class Format
- Exercise
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - Intensive
- Class
- -
- Course Code
- ARC.E501
- Number of credits
- 020
- Course offered
- 2024
- Offered quarter
- 1Q
- Syllabus updated
- Mar 14, 2025
- Language
- Japanese
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
This course introduces the outline of building services and the method of the building service plans.
The purpose of this course is to understand the calculation of thermal load for air conditioning unit and water load for plumbing sanitary system. Forthermore, students will be able to plan and draw air conditioning and plumbing sanitary system plans.
Course description and aims
At the end of this course, students will be able to plan and draw air conditioning and plumbing sanitary system plans.
Keywords
Building services
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
In the first half of the course, lectures about air conditioning and plumbing sanitary system are given. In the latter half, students should design and draw buiding service systems.
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Outline of building services | Understand building services, especially air conditiong system and plumbing sanitary. |
| Class 2 | Design of air conditioning | Plan and design air conditioning systems. |
| Class 3 | Design of air conditioning | Plan and design air conditioning systems. |
| Class 4 | Thermal load calculation and practice | Calculate and practice thermal load of buildings. |
| Class 5 | Thermal load calculation and practice | Calculate and practice thermal load of buildings. |
| Class 6 | System of air conditiong and heat source | Understand systems of air conditiong and heat source. |
| Class 7 | System of air conditiong and heat source | Understand systems of air conditiong and heat source. |
| Class 8 | Drawing of air conditioning | Draw air conditioning system in buildings. |
| Class 9 | Drawing of air conditioning | Draw air conditioning system in buildings. |
| Class 10 | Design of plumbing sanitary | Plan and design plubing system. |
| Class 11 | Design of plumbing sanitary | Plan and design plubing system. |
| Class 12 | Water supply load calculation and practice | Calculate and practice water supply load. |
| Class 13 | Water supply load calculation and practice | Calculate and practice water supply load. |
| Class 14 | Drawing of plumbing sanitary system | Draw plumbing sanitary system. |
Study advice (preparation and review)
To enhance effective learning, students are encouraged to spend approximately 100 minutes preparing for class and another 100 minutes reviewing class content afterwards (including assignments) for each class.
They should do so by referring to textbooks and other course material.
Textbook(s)
None required.
Reference books, course materials, etc.
None required.
Evaluation methods and criteria
Report presentation.
Related courses
- ARC.E401 ： Advanced Course on Environmental Engineering and Building Services
- ARC.E402 ： Advanced Theories in Air Conditioning
- ARC.E423 ： Air Quality Engineering
- ARC.E424 ： Design Theory of Architectural Visual Environment
- ARC.E425 ： Evaluation and Design of Thermal Environment
Prerequisites
Students should have successfully completed all courses of Advanced Course on Environmental Engineering and Building Services, Advanced Theories in Air Conditioning, Air Quality Engineering, Design Theory of Architectural Visual Environment, Evaluation and Design of Thermal Environment.