ARE 5.0 Project Development & Documentation Exam Prep

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Overall Heating Load Calculation

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In this ARE 5.0 NCARB-approved Project Development and Documentation Exam Prep course you will learn about the topics covered in the ARE 5.0 PDD exam division. A complete and comprehensive curriculum, this course will touch on each of the NCARB objectives for the ARE 5.0 Project Development and Documentation Exam.

Instructor Mike Newman will discuss issues related to the development of design concepts, the evaluation of materials and technologies, selection of appropriate construction techniques, and appropriate construction documentation.

When you are done with this course, you will have a thorough understanding of the content covered in the ARE 5.0 Project Development and Documentation Exam including integration of civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and specialty systems into overall project design and documentation.

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So clearly, it's very useful to have the overall yearly heating load on a building, because that's how we're gonna understand the scale of the the energy use, and the scale of the fuel costs and all of that over a span of time, and will allow us to do all these different sorts of comparisons. But when it comes to actually sizing the various components of the system, we actually probably want to start looking more at a room by room type heating load question. So the full system, we can look at to sort of have a sense of the scale of like, how big the boiler is, how big the furnace is.

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ARE 5.0 Project Development & Documentation Exam Prep

Duration: 36h 46m

Author: Mike Newman