Abstract
In the application of heating and ventilating systems to building projects widely varying performance and installation demands can be created by the needs of flexibility in the use of a building. Planning flexibility may require space that can be divided by various methods on a linear basis or, alternatively, on a two-dimensional basis, which lead to various forms of modular system design. The planning requirement may be further complicated by a range of performance requirements to meet a range of different uses.
The paper deals with the evaluation of the problem and discusses the various approaches to service distribution, and how the problems of flexibility influence the distribution systems and the controllability required. The problem is particularly relevant to university buildings, and the paper describes how consideration of the same basic problem has led to two very different solutions with respect to two universities that have been designed, and indicates other factors which have influenced the resultant decisions.
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