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Building engineering: a discipline for the modern era

Building engineering, commonly known in the US as architectural engineering, is an emerging engineering discipline that concerns with the planning, design, construction, operation, renovation, and maintenance of buildings, as well as with their impacts on the surrounding environment. As building construction projects are increasingly large and complex, the discipline requires pertinent knowledge integrated from traditional well-established disciplines: Architectural engineers apply the skills of many engineering disciplines to the design, construction, operation, maintenance and renovation of buildings while paying attention to their impacts on the surrounding environment. ... Cranes are essential in large construction projects, such as this skyscraper Construction on the North Bytown Bridge in Ottawa, Canada. ...

Building engineers are trained in all phases of the life cycle of a building and develop an appreciation of the building as an advanced technological system that encompasses many sub-systems and their individual components, and understand the building itself as a large integrated system. Technical problems are identified and appropriate solutions found to improve the performance of the building in areas such as: The Falkirk Wheel in Scotland. ... Software being used to design HVAC systems HVAC (pronounced either H-V-A-C or, occasionally, H-VAK) is an initialism/acronym that stands for heating, ventilation and air-conditioning. This is sometimes referred to as climate control. ... Building science is the collection of scientific knowledge that focuses on the analysis and control of the physical phenomena affecting the performance of building materials and building enclosure systems. ... Architect lamps Dark lighting in a concert hall allow laser effects to be visible In the 2005 Classical Spectacular performance, a state-of-the-art lighting system was used to accompany the music Lighting refers to the devices or techniques used for illumination, usually referring to artificial light sources such... Acoustics is a branch of physics and is the study of sound, mechanical waves in gases, liquids, and solids. ... Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) deals with the health and comfort of the air inside buildings. ... In the field of building architecture, the skills demanded of an architect range from the more complex, such as for a hospital or a stadium, to something simpler, such as planning simple residential houses. ... Project management is the discipline of defining and achieving targets while optimizing the use of resources (time, money, people, materials, energy, space, etc) over the course of a project (a set of activities of finite duration). ...

  • Energy efficiency, passive solar engineering, lighting and acoustics;
  • Construction management;
  • HVAC and control systems; Indoor air quality;
  • Advanced building materials; building envelope;
  • Earthquake resistance, wind effects on buildings, computer-aided design.

The building engineer may work as a consulting engineer, design engineer, project manager, construction manager, cost engineer, facility manager, conservation-utility director, HVAC engineer and operation manager, and process engineer, or in research and development among other career possibilities.


Specializations in Building Engineering

  • Building Indoor Environment covers the environmental aspects in the design, analysis and operation of energy-efficient, healthy and comfortable buildings. Fields of specialization include: thermal comfort, air quality, lighting, acoustics, HVAC and control systems.
  • Building Envelope is an application area which draws from all areas of building engineering, especially building science and indoor environment. It focuses on the analysis and design of building envelopes, including durability, heat and moisture transfer and interaction with the indoor environment.
  • Building science focuses on the analysis and control of the physical phenomena affecting the performance of building materials and building enclosure systems.
  • Building Structure area concerns with the principles of structural mechanics, material behavior and their applications to the analysis and design of steel, reinforced concrete and timber building structures. Fields of specialization include: wind and seismic effects on buildings.
  • Construction Management includes construction techniques, construction processes, planning, scheduling; project tracking and control, labor and industrial relations, and legal issues in construction.
  • Computer Aided Engineering is an exciting area in Engineering. Even though computers have become ubiquitous in the architecture-engineering-construction industry, their present use is mostly limited to drafting, analysis, member sizing, cost estimation, and construction management. Computers have tremendous untapped potentials in the field of Building Engineering.
  • Energy Efficiency is also an application area which draws from the building science and building environment areas. It includes analysis, design, and control of energy-efficient buildings and HVAC systems, solar energy utilization and intelligent buildings.

Building science is the collection of scientific knowledge that focuses on the analysis and control of the physical phenomena affecting the performance of building materials and building enclosure systems. ... The structure of a thing is how the parts of it relate to each other, how it is put together. This contrast with process, which is how the thing works; but process requires a viable structure. ... This article needs to be wikified. ... Computer-aided Engineering (often referred to as CAE) is a broad term describing the use of computer technology to aid in the design, manufacture, handling, or transport of goods. ... Software being used to design HVAC systems HVAC (pronounced either H-V-A-C or, occasionally, H-VAK) is an initialism/acronym that stands for heating, ventilation and air-conditioning. This is sometimes referred to as climate control. ... Solar power describes a number of methods of harnessing energy from the light of the sun. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...

Education

Building engineers would normally have an accredited academic degree with a concentration in building engineering from a recognized university. The completed degree may be designated as a Bachelor of Engineering, Bachelor of Science or Bachelor of Applied Science depending upon the university. The length of study is between three to four years and the program consists of basics of engineering and sciences (technical drawing, engineering mechanics, mechanics of materials, thermodynamics, mathematics, computer programming, surveying), subjects in building engineering sciences (structural analysis and design, soil mechanics, building engineering systems, the aural and visual environment, building envelope design, building economics, construction management, thermal environment and building service systems). Elective courses towards the end of the program allow students to specialize in one or more sub-disciplines. This article is about academic degrees. ... Bachelor of Engineering (BEng or BE) is an undergraduate academic degree awarded to a student after four or five years of studying engineering at an accredited university in the United Kingdom and other countries, such as Australia. ... A Bachelor of Science (B.S., B.Sc. ... A Bachelor of Applied Science is an undergraduate academic degree awarded for a course of study that generally lasts three years in the UK or four or five years in North America. ...


Some building engineers may wish to pursue a postgraduate degree such as a Master of Engineering, an Engineer's degree, or a Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering. The Master and Engineer's degree may consist of either research, coursework or a mixture of the two. The Doctor of Philosophy consists of a significant research component and is often viewed as the entry point to academia. A Master of Engineering (M.Eng. ... An engineers degree can be a postgraduate academic degree which is intermediate in rank between a masters degree and a doctorate (US engineers degree), or its a postgraduate or first degree, equivalent to a masters degree. ... Doctor of Philosophy, or Ph. ... Research is an active, diligent, and systematic process of inquiry in order to discover, interpret and/or revise facts. ... Coursework refers to work carried out by students while they are studying a course at university or school that contributes towards their overall grade, but which is assessed separately from their final exams. ... Doctor of Philosophy, or Ph. ... Plato is credited with the inception of academia: the body of knowledge, its development and transmission across generations. ...


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