School: Engineering

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Building Services
  • Unit Code

    ENS5200
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Ferdinando Giovanni GUZZOMI

Description

The role and significance of the building services function is covered in this unit. Many of the underlying principles, design aspects, and/or selection considerations for a range of engineering systems which form part of the building services function also receive treatment. In addition the unit covers statutory obligations, minimisation of energy and resource utilisation in building services, whole of life costs, and relevant Australian Standards.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 unit in ENM3218, ENM5218, ENS6100

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Demonstrate the ability to research a core topic of the unit at an advanced level appropriate for a Masters unit.
  2. Design systems for the provision of ventilation, air conditioning, water supply and waste water services in buildings.
  3. Effectively minimise energy use, resources and whole of life costs in the design of building services.
  4. Reflect statutory and duty of care obligations in building services design including the OHS requirements for all users of a building.

Unit Content

  1. Analysis of thermal loads on buildings, from both external and internal sources.
  2. Building Management Systems.
  3. Building acoustics.
  4. Building services in the building industry and asset management context.
  5. Design and selection of air handling and air conditioning plant, including fans, ducts, filters, cooling and heating plant, cooling towers, and associated piping and pumps.
  6. Design and selection of water supply systems, pumps; storage tanks and piping systems.
  7. Operation and design of ventilation and air conditioning systems.
  8. Removal of waste water, surface water and sewerage from buildings.
  9. Statutory and duty of care obligations in the air conditioning and ventilation of buildings.
  10. Sustainability, whole of life cost minimisation and energy management.
  11. The use of computer methods for modelling and designing building service systems.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentDesign exercises30%
Case StudyDesign case studies30%
Examination ^End of semester examination40%

^ Mandatory to Pass


Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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School: Engineering

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Building Services
  • Unit Code

    ENS5200
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Ferdinando Giovanni GUZZOMI

Description

The role and significance of the building services function is covered in this unit. Many of the underlying principles, design aspects, and/or selection considerations for a range of engineering systems which form part of the building services function also receive treatment. In addition the unit covers statutory obligations, minimisation of energy and resource utilisation in building services, whole of life costs, and relevant Australian Standards.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 unit in ENM3218, ENM5218, ENS6100

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Demonstrate the ability to research a core topic of the unit at an advanced level appropriate for a Masters unit.
  2. Design systems for the provision of ventilation, air conditioning, water supply and waste water services in buildings.
  3. Effectively minimise energy use, resources and whole of life costs in the design of building services.
  4. Reflect statutory and duty of care obligations in building services design including the OHS requirements for all users of a building.

Unit Content

  1. Analysis of thermal loads on buildings, from both external and internal sources.
  2. Building Management Systems.
  3. Building acoustics.
  4. Building services in the building industry and asset management context.
  5. Design and selection of air handling and air conditioning plant, including fans, ducts, filters, cooling and heating plant, cooling towers, and associated piping and pumps.
  6. Design and selection of water supply systems, pumps; storage tanks and piping systems.
  7. Operation and design of ventilation and air conditioning systems.
  8. Removal of waste water, surface water and sewerage from buildings.
  9. Statutory and duty of care obligations in the air conditioning and ventilation of buildings.
  10. Sustainability, whole of life cost minimisation and energy management.
  11. The use of computer methods for modelling and designing building service systems.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentDesign exercises30%
Case StudyDesign case studies30%
Examination ^End of semester examination40%

^ Mandatory to Pass


Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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