INTRODUCTION TO BUILDING SERVICES

& ENVIRONMENT

BUILDING ENVIRONMENT AND SERVICES 1

QUS 3202/MISS NURUL AINI
INTRODUCTION
◦ Effectiveness of a building measured by the
ability to bear the eternal activity and
changes.
◦ Elements that influence the design of building
services system :
1) Moisture
2) Heat
3) Ventilation / Air
4) Lighting
5) Acoustic
 INTRODUCTION

◦ Building services is based on engineering principles

that are applied to construction of building and the
built environment.
◦ Construction is a process that consists of the building
or assembling of infrastructure.
◦ Built Environment refers to the human-made
surroundings that provide the setting for human
activity.
 Definition of Terminologies
What is Built Environment?
BUILT ENVIRONMENT
The manmade surroundings that provide the setting
for human activity, ranging from the large-scale civic
surroundings to the personal places.
Humanly made, arranged or maintained to
fulfill human purpose needs, wants and
values to mediate to overall environment
with results that affect the environmental
context.
COMPONENTS OF THE BUILT
ENVIRONMENT
PRODUCTS
INTERIORS
STRUCTURES
LANDSCAPES
CITIES
REGIONS
EARTH

Interrelations between these components are very

important aspect to the formulation of the Built
Environment. Integration of these different disciplines
are crucial.
COMPONENTS OF THE BUILT
ENVIRONMENT
 PRODUCTS

Materials and products, generally created to

extend human capacity to perform specific task:
tools (pen and pencils, hammer and saw)
COMPONENTS OF THE BUILT
ENVIRONMENT
 INTERIORS

A space defined by an
arranged grouping of
products and within the
walls of a structure,
generally created to
enhance activities and
mediate external factors
(living room, work rooms,
public assembly halls and
stadiums)
COMPONENTS OF THE BUILT
ENVIRONMENT
 STRUCTURES

A planned grouping of spaces

defined by and constructed of
products, generally combining
related activities into composite
structures (housing, school, office
building, mosque, factories,
highways, bridges, tunnels, etc.)
Generally, structures have dual
internal spaces and external form
characteristics.
COMPONENTS OF THE BUILT
ENVIRONMENT
 LANDSCAPES

Exterior spaces and or setting for planned grouping

of structures and spaces (courtyard, malls, parks,
landscapes, sites for home and other structures,
farm, countryside, national forest)
COMPONENTS OF THE BUILT
ENVIRONMENT
 CITIES

Grouping of structures or landscape of varying sizes

and complexities, generally clustered together to
define a community for economic, social , cultural
and environmental reasons (Subdivisions,
neighborhood, villages or town and cities of varying
sizes)
COMPONENTS OF THE BUILT
ENVIRONMENT
 REGIONS

Grouping of cities and landscapes

of various sizes and complexities,
generally defined by common
political, social, economic and
environmental characteristic (the
surrounding region of a city, a
country or multi country area, a
state or multistage area, a
country, continent)
COMPONENTS OF THE BUILT
ENVIRONMENT
 EARTH

All of the above, are

the components of the
built environment.
HUMAN SPECIALIZATION FOR THE
COMPONENTS

1. PRODUCT
PRODUCT/GRAPHIC/
INDUSTRIAL DESIGNERS

2. INTERIORS
INTERIORS
DESIGNERS
HUMAN SPECIALIZATION FOR THE
COMPONENTS

3.STRUCTURES
ARCHITECT AND
ENGINEERS

4. LANDSCAPES
LANDSCAPES ARCHITECT
AND PLANNERS
HUMAN SPECIALIZATION FOR THE
COMPONENTS

5. CITIES 6. REGIONS
URBAN DESIGNERS AND
PLANNERS REGIONAL PLANNERS

7. EARTH
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENTISTS, NATIONAL & GLOBAL
PLANNERS AND POLICYMAKERS.