1. How do you achieve a balance between cost-saving measures, important features, and environmental responsibility when designing a residential structure?
To achieve balance between all of those things you must know the price of everything, how everything will look and how to best use the enviroment. You must know all of that and more in order to create a good balance.
2. What are the advantages and disadvantages of using 3D architectural software rather than creating hand-produced plans?
Some advantages are that it can be faster and more precise. Some disadvantages could be that you cant use the sofeware on every computer so you can not take it everywhere with you and it can be lost easier than a handmade model.
3. Why are organizations such as LEED important?
Groups like LEED create inexpensive homes for the needy so they give people a place to live in that is theirs and they own it and no one can take it away from them.
4. When planning a project, how does the availability of public utilities impact the design?
Depending on what you can get for the project depends on how you can make the project and what you can use while building the project and it might change where you place things and how you place them.
5. What options are available for the management of wastewater from a building?
When removing waste from your house you can use the towns sweage system or if your not near the city you can use a septic tank.
6. What are the important considerations when design a plumbing system?
Important aspects of a pluming plan are not having water lines run on the outside walls if it can be helped and to have the water and sewage go in and out from different places.
7. Why should a designer know about the different types of lighting and their applications?
They need to know about the lights so they can pick the best way they think is to light their home with.
8. What are the important considerations when designing an electrical system?
Some important things when designing an electrical plan is to have no lines crossing, have an electrical box, and avoid having too many plugs going to one room.
9. What information is important when documenting the design of a building?
When documenting the design of a building you need to be as specific as you can so others can know exactly what you did and how you did it.
