About Equipment Rooms
Explains the concept of equipment rooms in relation to the preliminary design planning.
As soon as rooms and functional areas of the building are planned, the technical trades receive a concept model of the architecture. In this concept model, the technical trades create a requirement planning for the building services to be introduced. This is done in the Equipment Rooms dialog, which can be found on the Analysis tab of the Pipe Route Concept workflow.
If the necessary space requirements for the building services are known, they can be entered manually right away. If the required areas are not known, a normative dimensioning can be performed for the areas of all disciplines. Select one of the three building part templates from VDI 2050-1 in the Dimensioning dialog for each functional area of your project. The standard is based on the type and scope of the technical systems to be installed for the building parts. The templates can therefore also be used for other building types.
Once the space requirements have been determined, the equipment rooms can be placed in the project with the correct dimensions using the Equipment Room tool. In the Equipment Rooms dialog, the compliance with the determined area limits can finally be checked.