The design of the Building Management System

  LO 1: 1: Review the client’s requirements on the design of the Building Management System paying special attention to the use of centralized or distributed intelligence systems, discuss and explain the principles of Building Management Systems. You may have to read some additional reference materials to give a better explanation. 2: Based on the explanation as mentioned in the lecture notes, L01, and materials discussed during the lecture, evaluate and describe the different approaches, cloud, web applications, mobile apps and protocols, viable for integration with the Building Management Systems. M1: Using the research information on the development of the report described in (1) and (2) above, further elaborate BMS technologies applicable for the your client’s building. Materials discussed in Lecture Notes L01, especially in Section 1.0 and 2.0, would be most helpful to tackle the requirements specified. D1: To reach this level, you must do further research (widen your range of reading) with regards to the design of the BMS for your client, and justify and evaluate the merits and demerits on the use of the BMS systems in support of greater user control. LO 2: 3: Materials provide in Lecture Notes L02 have provided the insight to different methods or techniques used in measuring and analysing the energy usage and costs. Making use of those information, explain and resolve the question accordingly. 4: In evaluating the energy costs, there are a number of approaches discussed in the lecture notes, L02. Use the most appropriate methods, tackle the evaluation of different energy cost indexes for the non-domestic building. 5: Refer to various control and monitoring techniques discussed in the lecture notes, L02, explain the selection of a Building Management System for achieving greater sustainability through control and monitoring. M2: Based on the discussion in 3-5 above, and those in lecture notes L02 Section 2.0, discuss and assess the variations in energy costs and usage data between two given buildings with one incorporated a BMS while the other without. It is necessary to use some cost figures and evaluate to illustrate and support your arguments in doing the comparison. LO 3: 6: Following the lecture notes, L03, and discussion during the lecture, reveal and describe the functions, components, software and systems suitable for establishing a Building Management Systems for a large domestic installation. Additional information may be required by search through the web on this respect. 7: There are different types of components used in Building Management Systems for domestic and non-domestic building, as discussed in lecture notes, L03. The difference may be found in the physical size, usability, control and monitoring mechanism, energy saving capability, capital investment, costs of operation, costs of support and maintenance, etc. Evaluate each of these and comment. M3: The requirements for reaching this level is to compare the use of BMS for a domestic installation and a non-domestic installation in terms of not just costs, but should include comparison on functionality, monitoring and design philosophy as well. Most of the information may be found in lecture notes, L01-3, but additional research on other resources could be helpful. LO 4: 8: This task mainly focused on the proper preparation of a response to the Request for Proposal (RFP) as discussed in lecture notes, L04 Section 3.0. Draft proposal and RFP samples will be good reference for the preparation of a good answer for this task. You may refer to supplementary notes on RFP provided for additional reference purpose. 9: Based on the lecture notes, L04, and discussion during the lecture, and using the proposal response to the client, cost estimation for a large domestic Building Management System installation can be established. M4: To reach this level, you may have to do some research on additional resources especially on costs of components for the BMS and various manufacturers’ data on the components needed to establish the BMS. Then integrate all related information to establish viable strategies for a large domestic BMS installation. D2: By combining the discussion and materials discussed in LO 2, 3 and 4 and with wider range of referencing materials, reiterate and justify recommendations provided to your client on the establishment of a BMS with more focus on the justification of cost, building efficiency and performance improvement.