Glenn KatzHVAC System Recommendations
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)
Some of the challenges that I encountered were: making sure that the ducts do not overlap with the floor; making sure the supply and return ducts do not overlap with each other; making sure the ducts do not go through structural elements; providing an adequate distribution of the ducts while at the same time making sure that they do not cause too much of a visual distraction. Although these challenges meant I had to go back and forth to revise my model, it was able to meet the design goals.
To make it more sustainable, I could modify my design a little to place the diffusers closer to the windows to better regulate these areas of higher fluctuations. Also, making sure that the air supply in CFM meets the needed minimum but does not go too high (therefore, we save energy that goes into heating the air).