Interfaces: Making all the building elements work together.Industry is reasonably good at developing products for the market it serves. It is not good at thinking outside its areas of expertise and interfacing with other trades. This is the role of a consultant, who is capable not only of managing the commercial issues of each party but also understands the physics and engineering to lead the design process. RELATED ARTICLE: Judge Institute of Management Studies, University of Cambridge: John Outram's Robot Column's contains all the air-handling plant and electrical services Electrical service, in building wiring, refers to the wiring that connects the electric utility's cables in the street to the building. Specifically, electrical service is the wiring from the street, through the meter and up to the panelboard, but no farther. for the galleria they serve. Architect: John Outram Associates The lighting boom accommodates all the gallery's lighting, security and electrical requirements. The design went through a number iterations, models and mock-ups prior to the system based on a simple cable tray A cable tray system, according to the US National Electrical Code, is "a unit or assembly of units or sections and associated fittings forming a rigid structural system used to securely fasten or support cables and raceways." Cable trays are used to hold up and distribute cables. . Designing new services for old buildings with no place to hide them is a challenge. Ultra modern interventions can jar and date. The client suggested that older designs of services were more discreet dis·creet adj. 1. Marked by, exercising, or showing prudence and wise self-restraint in speech and behavior; circumspect. 2. Free from ostentation or pretension; modest. . While still an anachronism a·nach·ro·nism n. 1. The representation of someone as existing or something as happening in other than chronological, proper, or historical order. 2. , the cable tray blends with the industrial aesthetic of the original Victorian design. The New Environmental Office, Building Research Establishment, Hertfordshire. The sinusoidal sinusoidal /si·nus·oi·dal/ (si?nu-soi´dal) 1. located in a sinusoid or affecting the circulation in the region of a sinusoid. 2. shaped like or pertaining to a sine wave. form of the floor slab was used as part of the services installation to distribute air and electrical services as well as increasing the surface area of the soffit for thermal mass Thermal mass, in the most general sense, is any mass that absorbs and holds heat. In the architectural sense, it is any mass that absorbs and stores heat during sunny periods when the heat is not desirable in the living space of a building, and then releases the heat during . The high level window opening actuators are manipulated by the central building management computer to control the air quality and temperature in the space, leaving the lower windows for manual control. Shafts on the external face of the building, clad in glass blocks to let through light and heat, act as natural extract systems. |
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