It's inefficient because you can only put ductwork in certain areas, as people cannot be required to step over it as they move around the space.
Obviously, there’s a challenge in thinking about ceiling heights and so on, but mostly the complexity is around air exchange.In an office, you aim for one and a half air changes per hour, whereas with laboratories, because they've got lots of safety cabinets and other devices, we have to look at 10, 15 or even 20 changes an hour in some places.
So the ductwork has to be 10 times as big, and the risers 10 times as big to carry the air up and down, and so on.Designing in flexibility presents lots of interesting challenges.. Master planning and MEP Design for a precious metals refinery.We started working on this precious metals refinery in 2016.
They refine five different types of precious metal.The precious metals are obtained in raw form from many sources, but most come from catalytic converters in car exhausts.
The metals, once purified, don’t look like much – a grey powder – but they are hugely expensive..
They take a product like a catalytic converter, and the first process is to smelt it.(And by extension – this can encompass building control, health and safety and other types of compliance checking.).
This degree of automation will not remove the requirement for human judgement and discretion in planning decisions.The purpose of digitisation is to facilitate the process by reducing the burden on those people of large amounts of admin and tedious, repetitive tasks that can be done better by machines than humans.. Benefits for architects:.
A digitised planning process will involve a change in the way architects are required to produce some information on their designs, and it will enforce a rigour and consistency in the technical elements of designs (which does not imply or require any constraint on creativity).This is not a huge departure, however: rigour in approach is good practice, and the information required is already largely included in BIM models..
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