What is an intelligent building infrastructure?What is taken onto consideration when designing?
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There are standards for this, notably the EIA standard (http://www.division17.net/TIA.asp) and a few commercial standards. Here is a common sense approach to the topic (http://www.jimhayes.com/uncleted/structed.html). \n\nAs a rule of thumb, I would allow for fiber optics in the risers and plan for gigabit ethernet to the offices. This way, people can use whatever routing and switching scheme they want and connect to your CAT6 wiring on the floor. Expect requests to run private CAT6 lengths down the risers too, for people who want to ensure a totally private interconnection. Don't forget to leave room for UPS devices in those closets!\n\nIf the connections to the phone companies are in the basement, make sure there's a nice clear path from the bottom of the riser to the DMZ room. That way people can connect to multiple carriers, or switch carriers easily. \n\nFinally, find out which wireless service providers are in your area, and determine if you are willing to permit outside antennae for point-to-point wireless services, like satellite dishes, microwave repeaters, or line-of-sight (laser) connections between buildings. \n\nGood luck!
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Depends on what you mean by types.\n\nDo you mean the type of material used in constuction or the type of activity the building is intended for.\n\nMost large building use a chilled water system where they use chillers to cool water down to about 42 deg F then pump the water throught the building to air handler units which blow air across the coils filled with the water.  This heats the water, but cools the air.  As the air is circulated throughout the area the water is returned to the chiller to be recooled and the process starts all over again.\n\nHowever, an important point is capacity.  That will be determined by both what the intended use of the building is and what sort of material is used.
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Good base of answers above, and all are pretty much correct.  An architect will determine how a building looks, feels, and functions to the satisfaction of the owner.  A structural engineer will determine what is required to resist the forces of nature (gravity, wind, seismic, etc.) so as to ensure the building can be safely occupied to the satisfaction of the architect.  Notice the chain of command...\n\nArchitects must pass a very intense testing program to become licensed in their state.  Engineers must first pass an FE exam (8 hours) usually after graduation, then get through four years of experience, then pass another 8 hour test to become licensed in their state.\n\nStructural engineering is basically a branch of civil engineering; however, I have found that many civil engineers who end up doing engineering in architecture lack the ability to understand the needs of architecture.  Enter the architectural engineer.  We are trained in the all of the essentials of engineering, but we also take courses in architecture to ensure some understanding of that side of building construction.  We are here to design a building, but lets not forget that the whole point is for it to look good.\n\nI was in the same predicament as you when I graduated high school.  I liked physics and math and buildings.  If you have an interest in buildings and construction and you have a technical background as well, you should consider architectural engineering.  If your technical background is not so strong and you have more creativity, stick with architecture.  Either way, be sure to find an ABET accredited program otherwise, the licensing process becomes much more difficult.
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It is using engineering methodologies to design systems for people.  Finding ways to maximize the capabilities of workers and to speed the delivery of services to customers.  IEs use statistics, queueing theory, game theory, and organizational psychology - among many other skills.\n\nIn manufacuring, an IE would analyze the capabilities of the machinery and the people and determine the most efficient design of an assembly line.  Things that might be considered include the amount of storage space available between manufacturing steps and the amount of rework that is needed to fix things that might not be perfect.\n\nIn healthcare, an IE might examine the flow of patients through a hospital and then make design changes to the facility.  An IE might also look at historical information to forecast expected patient demand (a lot of people hold off on major procedures until the new year due to health coverage, for instance) and then will help build the facility staffing plan to ensure that the right amount of staff is on duty.\n\nIn transportation, an IE would look at loading patterns in a trucking hub and determine the best way to maximize the orientation of the trucks.  IEs also study different methods for loading and delivering packages - two of the most highly IE'd organizations in the world are UPS and FedEx.
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It means 'Architect/Engineer' and it stands for the relationship of these disciplines in construction. The Architect makes a building 'pretty' and functional. The engineers make a building 'work'. Typical engineering disciplines involved are Civil, Electrical, Mechanical and Structural. Others are added for special tasks.
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It is quite obvious that since geometry is the instrument to design, and to design is to build an organized spacial structure, the knowledge of spacial forms is a necessary condition to deliver an architectonic message of the best quality. Moreover, with the introduction of computer design softwares, the possibilities of combinations of geometrical systems are enormously increased. And geometry is for the architect a disciplinal means, an essential implement in the "consideration" of the forms that intervene in the "composition" of space.
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Smart materials are a class of materials such as piezoceramics, shape memory materials etc. which have the capacity to produce a specific response to a stimuli. The examples can be a specific displacment for an applied force, a specific change in shape to a change in temperature and in the case of shape memory alloys the ability of a material to remember the original shape and recover that shape with change of temperature.
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depends. What kind of house? How many stories is it currently? What is the material? What is the foundation? Can the house support another level? Does it need additional support for the weight? How much square footage? Do existing structural supports need to moved? \n\nAnd why is this in the computer section? I could see if you're asking about Autocad, but you're not.
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architecture is part of built environment. all the building u see around you carries the architecture signature. yes, u can have engineers to design buildings, but they'll be only too happy to be interested in the calculations. architect on the other hand, merge the science of construction with the art of aesthetics. \nit is part of the larger circle of life. as built environment is part of architecture as much as architecture is part of built environment, u cannot help but to find it intermingled between town planning, architecture, engineering, quantity surveying and other discipline that together compliment each other. \nall the built environment around us reflects back to us what we are.
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There is plenty of unintelligent design to dismiss this idea.\n\nAn irreducibly complex system can be built gradually by adding parts that, while initially just advantageous, become - because of later changes - essential. The logic is very simple. Some part (A) initially does some job (and not very well, perhaps). Another part (B) later gets added because it helps A. This new part isn't essential, it merely improves things. But later on, A (or something else) may change in such a way that B now becomes indispensable. This process continues as further parts get folded into the system. And at the end of the day, many parts may all be required."\n\nH. Allen Orr\n\nIntelligent design does not discount everything in evolution, and so they would agree with mainstream science on the answers to most of your questions. Intelligent design allows boils down to God planned it that way.  That's why it can't be taught alongside evolution, because it involves belief, not evidence.\n\n"ID advocates are very keen to give the impression that they have the support of scientists. It is true that a number of scientists support ID, as indeed there are scientists who support Young Earth Creationism and many other pseudosciences. But they are a tiny number in relation to the total number of scientists, the vast majority of whom support evolutionary theory."\n\n...\n\n"What are the "scientific" arguments used to support Intelligent Design?\n\nA. The arguments for Intelligent Design are primarily arguments from ignorance, also known as god-of-the-gaps arguments. ID advocates also claim to have positive evidence of ID, in the form of "specified complexity" and "irreducible complexity", but these arguments turn out to be disguised arguments from ignorance. In addition, ID advocates sometimes make an argument from analogy. A lot of their effort is also devoted to attacking specific aspects of evolutionary theory, rather than giving support to their own ID hypothesis.\n\nhttp://www.talkdesign.org/introfaq.html
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I'm an Electrical Engineer.\nI studied (30 years ago!) Heavy current applications.\nI generally deal with Supply and transmission of electrical energy from the generation point, until it reaches your socket outlet in your house, office or factory. I size cables, fuses and switchgear. I design lighting installations, Fire alarms, Security alarms, Access control, Lightning protection and general feeds to other building controls and equipment within the construction industry.\n\nElectronic Engineers would have studied light current applications. They are professional within the equipment construction industry, and are responsible for design or servicing and repair of Electronically biaised equipment, such as TV's, Computers, Hi-Fi, DVD etc.\n\nThere is a cross over point between the 2 professions.\nFor example; Electronically biaised engineers would design a central control for Building Management, but would not normally be able to safely design the remote heavy current switches that the system actuates, or have in depth knowledge of the stringent regulations which are mandatory.\n\nI wouldn't try and mend my TV, and I sure as hell wouldn't want an Electronics engineer wiring my house! (Their cables are far to small!)\n\nThat's about as complicated as it gets!
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Nope. \nIt would be like putting mobsters and Mother Theressa to work together. \nBesides, there´s no proof for inteligent design. Just suppositions. \nEvolution, on the other side is a FACT. \nHow could you put them together?
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Architecture (from Latin, architectura and ultimately from Greek, αρχιτεκτων, "a master builder", from αρχι- "chief, leader" and τεκτων, "builder, carpenter")[1] is the art and science of designing buildings and structures. A wider definition would include within its scope the design of the total built environment, from the macrolevel of town planning, urban design, and landscape architecture to the microlevel of creating furniture. Architectural design usually must address both feasibility and cost for the builder, and function and aesthetics for the user.
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One has a very bright future in Interior Designing,because in coming future population will increase and for that people will need more houses,if not more houses then more ways to accommodate more people.... means one has to be really very skilled in this sense.. one will have a blooming future and u will b minting money in the coming time.... Best of Luck.
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I think you mean a SITE PLAN? How the building is situated on the site? That is a drawing or other representation of the surroundings, usually buildings. It used to be just a plan view of the site you are working on with the surrounding sites. This does not really show much though because one neighbouring building to the north might be 1 floor high and the building to the south mith be 30 floors high and block all the sun. Or it could be reversed and you might get lots of sun. A traditional site plan doesn't really capture that. So come up with some better way to represent the surroundings and I'm sure you'll get good points. What do the surounding building feel like? How can you show their character on a plan? Are they crisp and clean and new or old and rugged? Can you use old, new, dark, light, soft, hard, course, fine, textured fabric swatches to represent them on a 2D plan and still maintain the scale and everthing else neccessary? Probably. Good luck,\nKyle Martens
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Smart Sensors or Intelligent Sensors are sensors that incorporate a microprocessor or microcontroller. They usually compensate for environmental disturbances and have built int ADC's and comunications systems by digital buses. \n\nGoogle Intelligent Sensors
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Definitely mechanical first, because without mechanical skills the others cannot be accomplished.\nSomeone has to build the building, complete the infrastructure, and design the machinery to build electronic devices.\nSteps from basic to hybrid mechanisms have to be taken into account, even though the IT society delegates the mechanical to a back seat.