QUESTION 1

(a) A high-end hotel building (HeHB) complex of 6 floors and a basement has a footprint per floor of area 3500m2 located in either Singapore or Dubai (discuss the building in only one location).

The following features are functional in the building.

i. Commercial kitchen on the ground and 6th floor

ii. State of the art swimming pool in the basement

iii. Bedrooms, Cinema complex

iv. Toilets, car parking spaces, a plant room, and a security room all in the basement.

As a construction & surveying expert you have been contracted to provide functional ventilation strategies that aligns with the microclimate of the respective features’ and zones. On the bases of the context above, discuss in detail the ventilation strategies, of the respective features’ and zones providing relevant schematic illustrations.

(b) Discuss the reasons why domestic houses have the water tanks insulated but not the copper pipes that service the radiators.