2.3 Essential Qustions

1.     How do you achieve a balance between cost-saving measures, important features, and environmental responsibility when designing a residential structure?

By knowing the needs of your client, you can create a design that has the important features your client neeeds. If you know your budget, you can use the types of materials that fit your budget and by using energy star rated applieances you can be enviromentally safe.

2.     What are the advantages and disadvantages of using 3D architectural software rather than creating hand-produced plans?

The advantages of using 3D software is that it is faster and more accurate than a hand drawn plan. They can also be printed off and changed easily. A disadvantage would be if its a rough draft, a hand sketch would be quicker and still get the purpose across.

3.     Why are organizations such as LEED important?

Organizations such as LEED are important cause they help keep our buildings and projects more enviromentally friendly. They also make engineers projects more efficient.

4.     When planning a project, how does the availability of public utilities impact the design?

The availability of public utilities can impact the design cause you will want to build your house close to these locations to be more efficent. If there is public water and waste lines, you will build you house close to these so you can run your water and waste through those compared to haveing to drill a well or have a septic tank.

5.     What options are available for the management of wastewater from a building?

You can use public waste lines or you can can use a septic tank.

6.     What are the important considerations when design a plumbing system?

When planning the plumbing system you will need to make sure your water heater is close to all of the appliances that the water should be running to. Also, where the water enters the house and where the waste exits should be a certain distance apart to keep accidents from happening.

7.     Why should a designer know about the different types of lighting and their applications?

A designer should know about the differnt types of lighting and their applications because certain uses of lights can be more eco friendly. For example, sky lights and light that comes in through windows can heat and light up the house and you dont have to pay for it because its light from the sun.

8.     What are the important considerations when designing an electrical system?

A few important considerations when designing an electical system are where to place the outlets and the amount of lights needed to light up a room. You are going to want your outlets to be near appliances that need power. Also, you dont want a room to have twenty lights when it takes two to light the room appropriatly.

9.     What information is important when documenting the design of a building?

Having accurate dimmensioning, good use of annotating, and a key to identify marks. These help the client or whoever is looking at the design to get a clear picture of what you are going to make.