Interactive planning aids for the BPSD6030 tutorials, arranged by week. They complement the DesignBuilder work: use them to structure the design reasoning behind Assignments 1 and 2. DesignBuilder remains the tool for loads and energy; validate every decision against your own model.
Load your building's weather file and see every hour of the year on the chart. Read those hours for the climate, then for the building, then for the air-handling unit, and see where the answers part. Then find the design day and the job it sets the plant, and follow the air through the mixing box, the cooling coil and the reheat.
Walk your building through fresh-air, heating/cooling, system, and plant choices across the Australian commercial HVAC families. See the system drawn as a schematic, read how each part works, and reason through its carbon and a low-carbon pathway to justify in Assignment 2.
Build HVAC systems from their parts on a section through an office, with a reason for every wrong move. Follow the heat through the four loops, put an air-handling unit's sections in order, see what reaches the floors in four system types, trace the outdoor air from intake to exhaust, and find the fault in a building that cannot work.
Work out what your proposed cooling plant emits beyond its electricity: refrigerant leakage by refrigerant and safety class, real chiller efficiencies at full and part load from the Australian register, service lives, replacements, and the rules that govern its upkeep.
Turn the plant room sketch you tested on the visit into a scaled layout. List your plant at its real size from current manufacturers' data, lay it out with the space needed to service and replace it, check it against the five plant room questions and print it at 1:100. Then size the risers, VAV beside DOAS.