QSB 1714 Building service

In building service, we have learnt the ventilation of a building. Ventilation consists of 2 types which is natural ventilation and machine ventilation. Ventilation allow to cool down a building , prevention of heat concentration from machinery, lighting and human, control of humidity and others. We learned other topic  like cold water supply, hot water supply, storm water management, sewerage disposal and treatment system, telecommunications.

With those topics we have learnt, is that enough for us to know the service systems in a building. Each an every system is very important in order to provide a comfortable environment for the users.Furthermore,

Building service allow us to know more about construction which will leads to understand and knowledge for prepape our  Bills of Quantities and for estimating purposes.

                

Besides that, in our assignment we choose ventilation for our case study topic. We went to visit Putra Mosque for the ventilation system. Putra Mosque is using natural ventilation. The cool air is channeled into the Putra Mosque from the lake. This allow to cool down the interior of the building. Futhermore, The big door size of Putra mosque also good in helping the ventilation, it allow more cool air to enter to the building and discharges.

This is the lake of Putra Mosque

.After that we also went to visit Rumah merah In Malacca . Rumah merah also have a lot of window , to allow ventilation of the building