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building heat transfer and HVACR systems with their mathematics and computing techniques.
This subject is also offered to MSc students who are electrical or mechanical degree holders
with some knowledge and/or experience in air-conditioning systems. This group of students
will find the subject a supplement to their knowledge in the field and to their understanding of
the theoretical background of building and system simulation software they may come across
with in their professional practice.
Teaching and learning activities embrace formal lectures, computer workshops, case studies
and student presentations.
BSE531 - Computational Fire Modelling for Building Design
To equip the students with the basic theories and techniques in computational fire modelling
for evaluating and improving active control and passive fire design of buildings.
BSE532 - Fire Engineering Systems
To equip the students with an in-depth and up-to-date knowledge of fire engineering systems
associated with the building services industry, based on a rational and critical analysis of the
systems.
BSE533 - Fire Dynamics
To provide students a detailed theoretical base of fire dynamics, active and passive fire
control design of buildings.
To study the burning properties of materials and fire design.
The study will emphasise the theoretical fire extinguishing mechanism and appraisal of
applications of active fire protection systems, and detail fire behaviour of materials.
The subject also includes the investigation and appraisal of current development and
research in building fires and services systems. The syllabus will always be revised and updated in conjunction with the development and needs of fire services.
BSE534 - Legislation Aspects of Fire Safety Management
To equip the students with knowledge of the Legislation Aspects of Fire Safety Management.
The purpose is to provide the students with legislation knowledge with respect to fire safety
management, so that they can learn about the regulations in relation to the fire services
installation and the recommended practices for buildings of different uses; and integration
with the fire safety for the building as a whole. Comparison with the overseas regulations and
the use of fire statistical records to improve the fire safety provisions and management
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organisation of the function and teams; ethics and accountability; regulatory and legal issues;
contracts and contract procedures; quality and design issues.
BSE552 - Facility Planning and Project Management
The practice of FM involves both strategy and implementation. This subject focuses on the
context of facility planning and the practice of project management. At a strategic level, facility
planning translates business strategy into specific facility plans for implementation. Project
management skills are then needed to implement the project within time, cost and quality. The
subject content places special emphasis on long range and master planning for facilities;
space forecasting, planning and management; design-build cycle; interior design; budget and
cost estimation. At the implementation level, techniques of project management and their
applications to Facility Management are examined together with risk assessment and disaster
planning recovery.
To provide the students with a detailed knowledge of the practice of building services
engineering operations and maintenance.
To develop a critical understanding of the acquisition, installation, operation, maintenance and
disposal of building services systems.
To provide an opportunity for students to critically review standards, practices and procedures
for the operation and maintenance of facilities.
BSE562 - Technology Integration for Facility Management
Technology is having a profound impact on everyday business. This has significant impact for
the Facility Manager from both an organisational perspective and from the perspective of
meeting stakeholder demands. To remain competitive, the Facility Manager must understand
both the use of technology and how advances in technology can be harnessed to improve
service delivery and client satisfaction.
The focus of this subject is the application and implications of technology for the Facility
Manager. The subject examines technology from three separate perspectives embedded
technologies (building technology, materials, energy and supporting technologies etc.),
Enabling Technologies (those technologies which support the Facility Manager in their work)
and Enhancing Technologies (those technologies associated with information management,
collaboration and information aggregation including portals, data mining etc.)
BSE574 Research Methods
To develop an understanding of scientific research methods and to critically examine their
application in a particular aspect of building services engineering, facilities management, or
fire and safety engineering.
To develop sufficient expertise to adopt and use an appropriate research strategy to
undertake a dissertation project.
To know the techniques necessary for collecting, presenting, synthesising and analysing data.
To develop a dissertation proposal, suitable methodology and programme to enable an
initiation of the integrated research project in building services engineering, facility
management, or fire and safety engineering.