ENAE608-24X (C) General non-calendar-based 2024

HVAC Design Practice

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 5 August 2024
End Date: Sunday, 6 October 2024
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 18 August 2024
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 15 September 2024

Description

This course applies engineering principles and design methods related to heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) to the professional practice of building services design. The course covers process and technical aspects of HVAC systems design at the various phases of a building project; project initiation, concept and preliminary design, developed and detailed design, and commissioning. Learning includes design projects and case studies.

This course applies engineering principles and design methods related to heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) to the professional practice of building services design. The course covers process and technical aspects of HVAC systems design including project preliminary design and detailed design. Learning includes design projects and case studies.

The course covers the following topics:

• Building codes and standards (NZ, ASHRAE, CBISE, CIC)
• Design objective: thermal comfort, indoor air quality, industrial applications (museum etc)
• Space heating and cooling load: Introduction to radiant time series method
• HVAC equipment: Space air conditioning, Psychometrics, AHU and Heat recovery
• Ventilation strategies and air distribution: mixing, displacement, and hybrid.
• Introduction to HVAC systems: CAV, VAV, etc and HVAC design: System and duct design

Learning Outcomes

  • Developing HVAC solutions to complex buildings considering regulatory requirements.

  • Identifying HVAC systems to complex building design problems.

  • Developing and communicating concept and preliminary designs of HVAC systems for complex buildings, including sketches, schematics, and design features reports to document design development.

  • Selecting and sizing HVAC equipment and systems.

Prerequisites

Subject to approval of the Head of Department.

Timetable 2024

Students must attend one activity from each section.

Lecture A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Friday 10:00 - 12:00 Wheki 103
29 Jul - 4 Aug
12 Aug - 25 Aug
2 Sep - 22 Sep
Workshop A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Friday 10:00 - 17:00 Wheki 103
5 Aug - 11 Aug
26 Aug - 1 Sep

Timetable Note

The course runs over a period of eight weeks, with learning delivered through lectures, forums and tutorials, two one-day workshops and independent learning. There are approximately 150 learning hours in total, comprising:

Lectures and tutorials 12 hours
Workshop 14 hours
Independent learning 114 hours (project work and reading)

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Wentao Wu

Assessment

Project 1 Sizing heating and cooling load - 20%
Project 2 Sizing HVAC equipment: AHU, fan, air terminals etc - 20%
Project 3 Selecting HVAC system and system diagram - 30%
Project 4 HVAC design: duct layout and drawings - 30%

Total 100%

Textbooks / Resources

All required course material will be provided to students.

Recommended textbook:

McQuiston, F.C., Parker, J.D., Spitler, J.D., 2004. Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning: Analysis and Design. Six Edition. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN: 978-0-47015-1. Pp: 642.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,197.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Civil and Natural Resources Engineering .

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