Create a posting that includes:
- A screenshot of an interior view of your merged model from Model Coordination showing the HVAC elements.
- A brief paragraph discussing:
- any challenges that you encountered in this supply duct routing exercise
- whether your proposed design meets the project’s spatial design goals
- any recommendations to make the design more sustainable (and lower the heating and cooling loads)
1st Floor Supply Air:
1st Floor Supply and Return air:
2nd Floor:
Designing this without the supply and return air conflicting proved very difficult.
Full System (Two air handlers)
1st Person Screenshots:
Not sure why the analytical spaces/surfaces look like this in the model but I couldn’t figure out how to fix it.
I struggled a lot with a few aspects of this design, mostly in planning how to layout both supply and return air without conflictions. I ended up just having the return air at a lower level than supply this made the bottom of the ducts as low as ~8’6” which feels pretty cramped. I also had to use more flex duct than I probably would of liked. Maybe a more sustainable/energy efficient design would include water loops to decrease the amount of ductwork needed.