It is not accidental to borrow an advertisement from a well-known air-conditioning company as the beginning of this article, because air-conditioning system is one of our professional courses. In fact, the industry we are engaged in is to create the most suitable building environment for human life and residence by strictly demanding and controlling the air quality such as temperature, humidity and cleanliness of the building environment on the basis of fully understanding the physiological requirements of the human body for the building environment. Therefore, in a sense, our profession can be called "green architect".
The building environment and equipment engineering industry is commonly known as "HVAC", and a little more vulgar is "water heating and electricity". In foreign countries, it is HVAC, which represents several main development directions: heating (including refrigeration, of course), ventilation and air conditioning.
Traditionally, people have understood the construction industry as an architect or a structural engineer. In fact, the birth of a building needs the artistic creativity of architects, the feasibility demonstration of structural engineers and the use environment created by building environment equipment engineers. Taking computers as an analogy, architects are responsible for the development direction of computer technology, structural engineers are responsible for applying architects' achievements to computers, and environmental equipment engineers are responsible for creating the most friendly user interface and operating system. Of the three, the first two are equivalent to hardware, and the latter is software, which directly talks to users. In our daily life, the most direct feelings about the building we live in are usually created by equipment engineers. It can be said that the building environment equipment engineer is the bridge between the building and the users.
Speaking of which, some people want to ask, there is also a major called "Environmental Engineering". Are they the same? What is the difference?
Environmental engineering trains senior engineers and technicians who have knowledge of water, gas and solid waste pollution prevention, water supply and drainage engineering, water pollution control planning and water resources protection, and can engage in the research, design and management of environmental pollution prevention, environmental monitoring and water pollution control engineering. Its solution to the problem is mainly chemical, mostly overall, such as the layout planning of the whole city. The major of Building Environment and Equipment Engineering is to solve the environmental problems inside the building, using more physical methods, more specifically to a building or even a room. Now, you should know the general meaning, right?
The specialty of building environment and equipment engineering is an ancient discipline. This kind of "discipline" was born unconsciously as early as when our ancestors began to climb out of the damp and cold caves and tried to build dry and comfortable homes for themselves with their hands.
At the same time, it is a brand-new subject. From huts and shacks to skyscrapers and "intelligent" buildings, the pursuit of "housing" as a basic living condition has never stopped. In fact, in the 2 1 century, users' requirements for buildings are not just as simple as "shelter from the wind and rain", but how to live comfortably, safely and at ease. This is the development direction of future architecture.
On the one hand, the rapid development of modern science and technology has provided a solid material and technical foundation, and also raised new problems. On the other hand, the development of building environment and equipment engineering has promoted the continuous innovation of engineering science and technology such as new materials and new processes. For example, in 2003, a sudden SARS epidemic gave people a new understanding of their living environment. "I can't wait for everything around me to be disinfected." Therefore, the statement that "SARS virus can spread through air conditioning and ventilation system" has caused quite a lot of panic in the society (related information can be found in the collective infection cases of Taoda Garden in Hong Kong and Taipei Peace Hospital). So, can air conditioning infect diseases? People who have studied building environmentalism or basic subjects will understand that it is possible, but it is not SARS, such as Legionnaires' Disease. The doubt of this period gave birth to a new development direction of architecture-building cleaning technology. Whether it is healthy or not has since become an important criterion for judging the quality of buildings. In addition, in 2005, the spontaneous action of a non-governmental environmental protection organization named "26-degree air conditioning energy-saving action" received a wide response. Coincidentally, the state also proposed to build a conservation-oriented society. Seemingly coincidental, in fact, this is a historical necessity.
Judging from the current situation of developed countries, the United States, Japan and Europe currently spend more than13 of their energy on air conditioning, heating, ventilation and other building environment equipment, which can predict the future situation of China, which is about to enter the level of moderately developed countries. Therefore, how to improve the efficiency of building environmental protection equipment, save energy, improve the environmental quality of buildings and reduce their damage and pollution to the environment has become an urgent problem for us to solve at present, so as to prevent problems before they happen. This is another development direction of building environment and equipment engineering-building energy saving, including not only air conditioning system, but also lighting, lighting, heating, etc., and finally achieve the overall energy saving of the building, which is the so-called "green building". It is estimated that there will be new occupations such as HVAC energy-saving engineer, HVAC energy-saving appraiser and building energy-saving supervision after the subdivision of building ring in the future.
"There are thousands of spacious buildings in Qian Qian, and the poor in the world are happy, and the storm is like a calm mountain?"
Du Gongbu's wish before the Millennium is no longer an unattainable dream, and the main force is the architect. The realization of the dream of "green building", which represents the development direction of architecture, "comfort, health, convenience, safety, environmental protection and energy saving", depends on our future green architects.
Category: in the study arrangement of this major, each institution has different emphasis, and even the issue of its category has always been controversial. Judging from the professional name, it should belong to civil engineering. After all, the task of this major is to transform the traditional architecture major from the perspective of people and environment and increase its scientific and technological content. On the other hand, its realization means, that is, the design, manufacture, improvement and maintenance of the equipment itself, are inseparable from mechanical heat energy. So some colleges and universities classify it as civil engineering and some as mechanical engineering.