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Module 11 - Design Project Brief: System Design — Power & Lighting Systems

Focus

The focus of this stage in your integrated design project is to explore how you can best implement the strategies that you identified for achieving your project goals as you design the features of your building’s power and lighting systems.  For this check-in, you’ll add the elements of the power and lighting system to a small portion of your building model:

  • Power System Elements
    • Power Receptacles / Outlets
    • Power Circuits
    • Power Panels
  • Lighting System Elements
    • Lighting Fixtures
    • Switches
    • Lighting Circuits
    • Lighting Panels

Recommended Approach

At this point in our design process, we’ll continue adding the details to flesh out our initial building design ideas -- for this check-in, focusing on some of the power and lighting system elements for a small portion of the building.

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Step 1: Create a Linked Electrical Model

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Step 2: Model the Power System Elements for a Small Portion of Your Building Model

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Step 3: Model the Lighting System Elements in the same Small Portion of Your Building Model

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Step 4: Check the Average Estimated Illumination provided

Progress Check-In / Documenting Your Design Journey

About Design Journal Entries

You’ll be sharing your ongoing design process and progress with others in our class community through a posting in an online Design Journal using Notion.

Feel free to use whatever format best captures the ideas that you want to share -- text, images, sketches, photos of hand sketches, intermediate models, results of analyses, and so on.

For this class, your design process is as important as the final result.

Post a Design Journal Entry

Create a new posting sharing your Design Journal entry on this linked Notion page:

✏️Design Project Check-In: Power & Lighting Systems

Your Design Journal entries this week should highlight your design thinking and process in modeling:

  • your power system elements
  • your lighting system elements

Model Coordination

Publish the latest versions of your architectural, structural, HVAC, plumbing models, and electrical to Autodesk Construction Cloud, then copy these latest versions into your Model Coordination space to explore the integrated design.

  • Walk through a merged model view to experience how the architectural, structural, HVAC, plumbing, and power/lighting designs work together.
  • Look for any potential conflicts or issues that require resolution.

Weekly Design Project Check-In

Meet with a member of the teaching team to review your progress and share tips about how to proceed.