2025 (Current Year) Faculty Courses School of Environment and Society Department of Architecture and Building Engineering Graduate major in Architecture and Building Engineering
Advanced Theories in Water Supply and Drainage
- Academic unit or major
- Graduate major in Architecture and Building Engineering
- Instructor(s)
- Kazuhiro Yuasa / Naoki Kagi / Iwao Hasegawa
- Class Format
- Lecture
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - Class
- -
- Course Code
- ARC.E403
- Number of credits
- 100
- Course offered
- 2025
- Offered quarter
- 4Q
- Syllabus updated
- Mar 19, 2025
- Language
- Japanese
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
This course of building services introduces the outline of building equipment, especially the air conditioning unit and pluming system, after the lecture of environmental engineering and the planning of building services.
The purpose of this course is to understand the design of plumbing and sanitation equipment, and so on.
Course description and aims
At the end of this course, students will be able to explain the basics and theory of plumbing and sanitation equipment and understand the design of each buiding service. Furthermore, students will be able to understand the facility of buildings
Student learning outcomes
実務経験と講義内容との関連 (又は実践的教育内容)
Lecture by the designer of building services.
Keywords
Building service, pluming equipment
Competencies
- 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 application. To allow students to get a good understanding of the course, practice application related to the contents of this course are provided. Attendance is taken in every class.
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Outline of the course for plumbing and sanitation equipment | Understand the course objectives. |
| Class 2 | Basic for plumbing and sanitation equipment | Understand the basic for plumbing and sanitation equipment. |
| Class 3 | Significance and role of design for building services | Understand the ignificance and role of design for building servises |
| Class 4 | Practical affairs of design for building services | Understand the practical affairs of design for building servises. |
| Class 5 | Practical affairs of plumbing and sanitation equipment | Understand the practical affairs of plumbing and sanitation equipment |
| Class 6 | Multiple tasks in design practice | Understand multiple tasks in design practice. |
| Class 7 | Design of building services for latest buildings | Understand the design of building services for latest buildings. |
| Class 8 | Conclusions | Conclude of plumbing and sanitation equipment. |
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.
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
Evaluation methods and criteria
Reports(70%), exercise (30%)
Related courses
- ARC.E401 ： Advanced Course on Environmental Engineering and Building Services
- ARC.E402 ： Advanced Theories in Air Conditioning
- ARC.E501 ： Advanced Exercise in Building Services
Prerequisites
No prerequisites.