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Computer-based building management systems are used to track and regulate building services like heating, cooling, lighting, and security to improve buildings' performance. Building services include devices that improve buildings' comfort, utility, effectiveness, and safety, and can be managed by basic systems like thermostats or more advanced building management systems. Common building services addressed include elevators, escalators, HVAC, lighting, plumbing, security systems, and fire safety systems.

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Computer-based building management systems are used to track and regulate building services like heating, cooling, lighting, and security to improve buildings' performance. Building services include devices that improve buildings' comfort, utility, effectiveness, and safety, and can be managed by basic systems like thermostats or more advanced building management systems. Common building services addressed include elevators, escalators, HVAC, lighting, plumbing, security systems, and fire safety systems.

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Computer-based systems called building management systems are used to track and

manage building services. Building managers can regulate and make adjustments to improve
buildings' performance thanks to them in order to better understand how they are running.

Building services are devices put in structures to improve their comfort, utility, effectiveness,
and safety. They can be managed by less complicated building management systems or by
basic processes like manual switching, clocks, or detectors like thermostats or motion
detectors.

Escalators and lifts


A lift is a form of vertical transportation between building floors, levels or decks, commonly
used in offices, public buildings and other types of multi-storey building. Lifts can be
essential for providing vertical circulation, particularly in tall buildings, for wheelchair and
other non-ambulant building users and for the vertical transportation of goods. Some lifts
may also be used for firefighting and evacuation purposes.

Escalators are mechanical devices used for transporting people vertically between different
levels of buildings. Typically, they take the form of a moving staircase, consisting of a 'chain'
of single-piece aluminium or stainless steel steps guided by a system of tracks in a
continuous loop.

Facade engineering
Any predominantly vertical face of a building envelope, such as an external wall. Façade
engineering refers to designing a high-quality façade that enhances the energy efficiency and
long-term sustainability of the building.

Fire safety, detection and protection


Buildings need to be designed to provide an acceptable level of fire safety and minimise the
risks from heat and smoke. Building services can present a major ignition risk. Plant rooms,
boiler houses and kitchens and so on should be sited where their threat is minimised.

Once a fire is detected, it is necessary to communicate the location of the fire to occupants
and to a control and response centre such as the fire and rescue service. Forms of detection
include optical smoke alarms, Ionization smoke alarms, multi sensor alarms, and heat
alarms.

There may also be other sorts of detectors, such as carbon monoxide detectors.

Sprinklers is also important because it is designed to extinguish small fires or contain


growing fires until the fire and rescue service arrives.

Heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC)


HVAC systems can be centralized in a building, or local to the space they are serving, or a
combination of both. They may also be connected to a wider district heating or cooling
network. HVAC can be used in buildings to Maintain internal air quality, Regulate internal
temperatures, and Regulate internal humidity.
Information and communications technology (ICT) networks

Information and Communications Technology (ICT) are technologies and equipment that can
be used to communicate as well as to store, retrieve, transmit and manipulate data.

Lighting
The term ‘lighting’ refers to equipment the primary purpose of which is to produce light.
This is typically some form of lamp. However, lighting can also refer to the use of natural
light to provide illumination.

Lightning protection
A lightning protection system (LPS) can protect a structure from damage caused by being
struck by lightning by providing a low-resistance path to ground for the lightning to follow
and disperse. Examples include:

Rods or ‘air terminals’.


Conductor cables.
Ground rods.

Refrigeration
Refrigeration can be used in buildings For heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC)
systems. It can also be used To provide cooling for refrigeration and industrial processes.

Security and alarm systems


As well as the security of physical property it is also important to protect equipment, staff,
visitors, and information. Security can also be an important consideration on construction
sites.

The components of a commercial security system might include:

Access control.
CCTV.
Intruder alarms.
Perimeter security.
Fire detection systems.
Integrated systems.

Water, drainage and plumbing


Drainage is the removal of surface and sub-surface water. Sustainable urban drainage
systems (SUDS) are systems designed to efficiently manage the drainage of surface water in
the urban environment.

Plumbing refers to any system that allows the movement of fluids, typically involving pipes,
valves, plumbing fixtures, tanks and other apparatus.

Plumbing systems might be used for:


Heating and cooling.
Waste removal.
Potable cold and hot water supply.
Water recovery and treatment systems.
Rainwater, surface and subsurface water drainage.
Fuel gas piping.

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