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EPSRC Reference:	GR/M09490/01
Title:	BUILDING SERVICES STANDARD SOLUTIONS IMPLEMENTED IN CAD
Principal Investigator:	Richens, Professor P N
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Project Partners:	Bentley Systems Ltd Biddle AIR Systems Ltd Carrier Holdings Ltd Hamworthy Engineering Ltd Integrated Environmental Solutions Ltd J Sainsbury Plc Oscar Fabers & Partners Pre Nexus Migration Steel Construction Institute Taylor Woodrow Woods of Colchester Ltd
Department:	Architecture
Organisation:	University of Cambridge
Scheme:	LINK
Starts:	01 December 1998	Ends:	30 November 2000	Value (£):	85,613
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:	Construction Ops & Management Design Engineering
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:	Construction
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Summary on Grant Application Form
Standardisation is widely recognised as a key element in reducing design time, cutting construction costs and ensuring efficient design solutions. Most buildings, because of their unique site and usage requirements are in effect prototypes where standardisation may be difficult to implement. Plant rooms and their associated risers and ceiling ductwork, however, are an important exception. Their components are drawn from a (relatively) fixed range of alternatives, and there are definite relationships and interactions between their components and systems. In this sense the three-dimensional spatial layout of these services is governed by a set of more or less well understood rules. Implementing these rules and other information relating to design, construction operation and maintenance in CAD will facilitate both data capture/re-use and enable solutions to be readily customised to suit particular constraints (eg moulded to suit spatial constraints). Plant rooms and services thus lend themselves to standardisation, and they are highly appropirate as a research topic under the Meeting Client Needs through Standardisation Programme, operated under the LINK Scheme.
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