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HVAC Design for High-Rise Buildings
In HVAC Design for High-Rise Buildings, you'll learn ...
- The important selection parameters for high-rise buildings
- The challenges associated with HVAC design for high-rise buildings
- Major types of central air conditioning equipment used in tall buildings
- What type of air distribution systems are recommended for tall buildings
Overview
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Credit: 6 PDH
Length: 155 pages
A high-rise building is essentially a building with very tall facades relative to the footprint. What differentiates it from the conventional low rise and medium-rise building is that it needs special engineering systems due to the challenges posed by height, construction, operation, and maintenance.
The reasons for constructing high rise buildings could be due to population density issues and lack of available land for development. Sometimes it is more about power, the prestige status of the occupier, and the aesthetics rather than efficient development. At the same time, high-rise development brings numerous challenges for engineers who must design sufficiently strong foundations, MEP services, heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems, electrical power distribution, lighting, transportation (elevators, stairs, parking), communication, plumbing, fire protection, and building security functions for these buildings in order to make them habitable.
This course outlines the key considerations for the design of HVAC services for tall buildings, which are very often mixed-use, sometimes consisting of low-level retail, office floors, residential floors, and hotel floors.
This 6-hour course will be of interest to owners, architects, facility engineers, MEP engineers, fire engineers, and other specialized engineers and consultants. The course not only focuses on the efforts of designers of the HVAC systems but also addresses the importance of an integrated design team and their collective efforts and concerns that are the critical elements in determining the ultimate solutions to meet needs of a tall building.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Compare available air-conditioning cooling systems using a selection matrix.
- Explain how potable and chilled water are distributed to upper floors of tall buildings.
- Identify the thermal zones and control features required for high-rise buildings.
- Compare centralized air distribution with decentralized, floor-by-floor arrangements.
- Describe life-safety and smoke-extraction systems required in tall buildings.
- Identify heating-system types suited to tall buildings.
Certificate of Completion
You will be able to immediately print a certificate of completion after passing a multiple-choice quiz consisting of 30 questions. PDH credits are not awarded until the course is completed and quiz is passed.
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Preview a portion of this course before purchasing it.
Credit: 6 PDH
Length: 155 pages
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