Assignment 1
1. Choose a room/space where you most frequently use for work purposes as your site.
2. Map out and record down all main electrical fixtures namely, lighting and ventilation.
3. Draw out the electrical wiring (make informed assumptions, where not visible, based on your knowledge attained from lectures) to the switches.
4. Using yourself as the Client, observe what are the discomfort/problems with the existing lighting and ventilation and re-design the room within the scope of lighting and VAC equipment. Your justifications for change may be for enhanced comfort, eco-friendliness or aesthetics. Just ensure each change is justified.
ASSIGNMENT 2A: Recording and measurement of 4 facings of external walls of chosen building
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1. We need to use our current home or a convenient residential building as our site.
2. We need toIdentify the facings (N,E,S,W) of the 4 external walls.
3. We need to Identify their materials and estimate/measure their dimensions.
4. We need to Measure each wall’s internal and external temperature at 3 different times of the day. 7 a.m., 12 p.m. and 5 p.m.
5. We need to Calculate the heat transfer
6. last, we need to Conclude and briefly reflect on this section by identifying the wall panel that is most critical/highest heat gain/most utilised space.
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ASSIGNMENT 2B : Passive/Green Insulation Product Development
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1. Using the critical wall identified from Part 2a, We need to come up with an original idea design solution to reduce the heat transfer.
2. Other than heat transfer, our product may also have enhanced features such as audio comfort/noise control and/or light control/visual comfort.
3. We need to come with an Evidence of quantitative benefit (reduced heat transfer etc) should be included in the report and verbally presented during the formal presentation.
4. We need to Record down the costs of the materials, tools needed to make this product (receipts and evidence, calculations of costs need to be in the report)
