CAD Development Centre
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Computer-aided design and drafting forms an important part of the department teaching programmes. The Departmental CAD Development Center occupies over 350 m2 of space. The facilities in CAD Development Center includes the latest Pentium computers and various plotting and printing facilities linked by a LAN. Peripherals include scanners, digitisers, large size plotters and various printing facilities. |
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CAD Development Center is located
in FJ 403 and FJ404 of the J core. It provides computing facilities
for BSE students. This center is for both teaching and student self
studying purpose. Hardware
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Besides the PC systems, a student server with PIII 1GHz, 1GB RAM, 72GB HDD is setup for students to store their works and used for assignment submission. All PC systems are connected to the internet and the campus network. Students can use the facilities for their projects and searching information |
The Department uses a wide range of software for teaching and research, from entry level business and CAD applications to specialist computer modelling and analysis software.
The
main items include:
Windows-based word processing, spreadsheet
and presentation programs for basic computer usage.
General Application Software
AutoCAD 2000 - for drafting
and designing of architectural layout and building services systems
MS Office 2003 - for word processing spreadsheet and
powerpoint presentation
MS Project 2003 - for project management
MS Publisher 2003 - for preparing material such as newsletters,
brochures, flyers
MS Frontpage 2003 - for web page editing
Microstation ¡V for preparing CAD drawings
HTB2 - for building energy simulation
HevaComp - design software covers a range of building
services systems. This package includes HevaCAD and BSL Library-HevaStar
McAfee AntiVirus 8.1 - for PC system protection
WinZip - for storage management
Paint.Net - freeware for photo editing
XnView - freeware for photo editing
Nero 6 - for burning CD
Engineering Simulation Software
Building Services Library (BSL) - for the AutoCAD environment, offering a comprehensive library of symbols and routines. BSL to link to HevaCAD, allowing design from the concept stage to final working drawings
BECON - an in-house design simulation package, for HVAC system design and evaluation. The package includes OTTV, HKDLC and other sub-routines for evaluation of budding load and performance.
FACET - a sophisticated package for the design of a full range of building services systems
Electrical Distribution and Transmission Systems Analysis (EDSA) - a set of programs for electrical distribution system design and analysis
HTB2 - for anlaysing building cooling loads for HVAC system design
Micro-DOE2 for analysing
energy use in buildings and associated heating, ventilation and air-conditioning
systems
Dialux - for lighting simulation and design
CCSIM - is an in-house design simulation package, for
cooling coil model
BLAST (Building Loads Analysis and System Thermodynamics)
- to perform peak load calculations and hourly simulation of buildings,
air-handling systems and central plant
LIBRA Thermal - a finite element analysis program for
solving heat transfer problems
NISA Fluid 3D - for analysing a wide range of two and
three dimensional flow problems using finite element technique
FLOVENT - a computational fluid dynamics package for
simulating flow field induced by heat sources
FLUENT - a CFD code for a wide range of flow modeling
applications;
PHOENICS - a computational fluid dynamics package for
simulating flow field induced by heat sources
RADIANCE - a suite of lighting simulation programs
TASEF - a finite element package for simulating the
thermal fire resistance of building materials.
BMSOnline - A Simulated Living Environment of Air-conditioning
and BMS for Practicing Online Controls
EcoTech -for energy simulation
FPETool- freeware for fire engineering calculations