Building Design Courses
The Building design industry is a vast one. it comprises of major design fields such as Mechanical (HVAC), Electrical, Plumbing design. It also involves both Architectural and Civil (Structural) design Engineering. At Tekniprep, we aim at bringing you to industry standard in the Building design field with our numerous world-class courses. You will be exposed to what it takes to carry out a complete design in any of the fields highlighted above and what is required in making excellent drafts of your design.
Duct - Design & Drafting
Ducts are the means with which conditioned air are conveyed to a desired space. These conditioned air come out through what is called air terminals. This course will expose you to the different types of duct systems that we have, the methods for sizing them using tables, charts and/or proprietary duct sizing software. You will also learn how to convert your duct design results and dimensions into beautiful 2D layouts using the AutoCAD software.
Hourly Analysis Program (HAP)
Carrier's Hourly Analysis Program (HAP) software is a top engineering tool used by HVAC Engineering professionals to design, simulate and analyze the HVAC requirements of commercial buildings. The HAP software is a world-class software for making out load calculations. Its worldwide acceptability makes it a unique tool to determine the heating and cooling loads for any building. It offers unique flexibility and ability to determine loads based on numerous variables. You can also create "Schedules" which show the behavior and occupancy level of people in the Building. Tekniprep takes you in-depth on how to make use of this unique HVAC Load calculation software tool.
HVAC - Load calculation
Every HVAC Design Engineer is required to determine the required heating and cooling loads for the space to be conditioned. This course exposes you to the gradual steps required in determining the required heating and cooling loads by calculating the heat generated from heat sources such as conduction, convection and radiation. We would also consider internal heat sources gotten from people and appliances in the building. This method of load calculation makes use of the CARRIER's E-20 detailed load estimation technique using MS Excel. Thus with this choice, learning the CARRIER's HAP software becomes easier because of the similar approaches to load estimation they both share.
Lighting - Design & Drafting
Lighting design for homes, offices, commercial buildings and industries as become systematic in its approach. This means that the number of lighting fixtures chosen is dependent on the lux level requirement of each space or room in a building. There are also other factors that needs to be considered in determining the required number of lighting fixtures which will all be taught in this course. This course also exposes you to the use of AutoCAD in drafting out your design results in beautiful 2D layouts.
Socket - Design & Drafting
Every electrical system in homes, offices and commercial buildings make use of sockets for connecting appliances and equipment to electricity. In this course, we will carefully analyse the different types of sockets we have available, their power ratings and where they are best suited to be used in. We will also make use of NEC standards in determining the minimum number of sockets to be used in each space or room. Upon completion of a suitable socket design, the AutoCAD software will be used to make out unique layouts of the socket locations while also showing their respective wiring systems and circuit breaker locations on the Distribution board.