ARE 5.0 Project Planning & Design Exam Prep

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Building Systems - Electricity

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

Instructor Mike Newman will discuss issues related to the generation or evaluation of design alternatives that synthesize environmental, cultural, behavioral, technical and economic issues.

When you are done with this course, you will have a thorough understanding of the content covered in the ARE 5.0 Project Planning and Design Exam including design concepts, sustainability/environmental design, universal design, and other forms of governing codes and regulations. 

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Then when we get ready to go to a building, so here's our little building, we're gonna have this distribution level keep coming, it's gonna come around, and eventually we're gonna have it drop down to our building and there's gonna be another step-down transformer on the closest telephone pole. Then that element is going to drop directly to our building and it's gonna go to what's referred to as a weather head which is a little conduit where the pipe can accept the cable up into it, it has that little hook to it so it doesn't rain right inside of it. That's gonna bring it down to sort of everyday level, to kind of the ground level, but in a protected conduit.

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ARE 5.0 Project Planning & Design Exam Prep

Duration: 30h 57m

Author: Mike Newman