Building Services in the Environmental Landscape

Historically, most of the development comes from the environmental possibilism theory of the possibility that can be drawn from the requirement of the client’s vision, which is mainly for business purposes within the landscape market. The built construction involving any type of facility would undergo the environmental process as part of project management that always occurs from start to finish using a methodology in alignment with the country’s statutory law requirements. However, engineering management of building services which are at the heart of any building facility must be right from the design up to the construction stage, and later for maintenance need to be addressed by the architects, structural engineer, environmental engineer, and the building services engineer to provide the client’s requirements. An example was presented in the author’s article, “Environmental Possibilism” CEAI ViewPoint, March 2018, which discussed the environmental perspective and innovation within the socio-cultural development as well as its implication that contributes the climate change because of the collected pollution generated from various building structures as discussed in another article by the author, “Environmental Engineering in Built-Up Areas” CEAI ViewPoint, December 2019.Building Services are the essential elements and in them, the designs of Life Safety and Property Protection systems for a skyscraper building are a multi-disciplinary effort refer “Skyscraper Fire Protection, an Asset Management Strategy” CEAI ViewPoint, June 2018, which covers the importance of fire engineering and management systems designed by building services engineers specialized in the HVAC, Electrical, Fire Protection, and Public Health Engineering including Building Instrumentation & Controls, and Information Technology