ARC315-18 – BUILDING UTILITIES 2:

ELECTRICAL, ELECTRONIC & MECHANICAL

First Semester 2021 – 2022
Ar. Frances Joy S. Francisco
Section: 3AR – 1

ASSIGNMENT NO. 1

Joson, Joshua C.
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DISCUSS in your own opinion the importance of ELECTRICAL and MECHANICAL

systems in any building structure.

The importance of electrical and mechanical systems is vital in any building in any

structure as much as the respiratory and digestive system of a human body. Because of

it, it sustains the body and keeps the body in motion to produce and provide the

components that a human body needs such as the oxygen and the consumption of

nutrients from food and the likes. The same as any building electrical systems helps

deliver energy through home sufficiently and sustainably under electrical standards. This

includes: lightings, functioning air conditioners, and other related equipment and fixtures

that requires electrical energy. With this a building is efficiently utilized and maintained

from any failures regardless the usage or the number of people to be provided. On the

other hand, Mechanical systems cannot be disregarded because this is where the

convenience of utilities takes place for people to have the right threshold for thermal

comfort. Its importance is to make every motion work at peak performance under the

standards and complex & elaborate mechanical design planning of how to make it

suitable and safe not only for the building but also for the users. One example is are the

ducts. Ducts are conduits or passages used in HVAC to deliver and remove air. This

indicates duct’s goal is to helps provide acceptable air and cooling the room for a right

amount of thermal comfort. A building is constructed because it is intended for a purpose

to be utilized therefore it must be maintained such as these systems in order to create a

healthy and efficient structure just like a human body.

What is the relationship of the term “human comfort” and the building utility

systems in any building structure.

Human comfort goes along a broad way of understanding since a certain individual may

have different preferences for comfort compared to another individual. However,

physiologically speaking, a human body has the same biological system as any other

individual and may meet certain requirements externally and internally as a limit for

human comfort. The building utility comes in to place to fill the need for human

convenience. After all, in the world of architecture, one of the Vitruvian principle has

always been provisioned which is also known as Utilitas also translates to utility. Lights,

for example, may provide limited vision of a lit up area for a human’s eyesight. The HVAC

system, provides the user to be in a thermal comfort to maintain a human body’s

temperature. Other utilities such as the electrical panel board gives access to the user’s

convenience in monitoring and maintaining electrical and utility usage in a house or a

building structure. Human comfort and building utility systems are indeed related as if it

is programmed and designed for human usage and consumption.