Module 8 - Points to Ponder

Sanitary drainage must slope; supply piping does not.

◦  How did that single rule change your plan?

◦  Where would you locate restrooms differently if you started over?

Building science: efficient lighting and controls.

◦  Which controls strategy would most reduce your lighting energy, and why?

◦  How does your Week 3 glazing decision show up in this week's lighting load?

You modelled a representative slice rather than the whole building.

◦  What did the slice teach you that would have been buried in a full model?

◦  What might a slice hide that only a full model would reveal?

Panels, risers and mechanical rooms all compete for the same square footage.

◦  How much of your floor area is now given over to systems?

◦  Is that a failure of planning or a normal cost of a working building?

You now have five models from five notional disciplines.

◦  Who is responsible when two of them disagree?

◦  What would go wrong if all five were one file instead?