In your personal experience with buildings do you feel that convenience receptacles are usually placed according to the minimum requirements of codes or in response to the actual functional needs of the building spaces?

Submit your responses to the following assignment in Word and then submit it to Blackboard. Be sure to follow APA 7th guidelines. Please answer the questions completely (do not recopy questions in your work).1. Electricity is a high-grade energy form, and solar energy is a low-grade energy form. From a philosophical perspective, how would you classify electricity generated by photovoltaic cells—as high or low-grade? Why2. The development of personal computers as a critical (and widely distributed) office tool has decreased the need for special thermal environments to house central data processing equipment. This same trend, however, has led to a need for high-quality power systems throughout a building. A location-specific design problem has been exchanged for a building-wide design problem. On the whole, do you feel this is a trend that may spread to other aspects of building design (such as thermal comfort, lighting, or acoustics)? Why or why not?3. In your personal experience with buildings do you feel that convenience receptacles are usually placed according to the minimum requirements of codes or in response to the actual functional needs of the building spaces? If codes are seen to rule, why do you think they (as minimums) overrule good judgment? If the function is seen to rule, who on the design team do you feel understood the function and decided to go beyond the codes?4. The National Electrical Code is indicated as a source of requirements for electrical systems design. Yet it is also noted that only a local jurisdiction can enact mandatory requirements for building design. Standards are also mentioned, along with an occasional federal limit or requirement. What is the relationship between local government, National Electrical Code, applicable standards, and federal rules? How does this mix of external forces work on the typical project?The book used for the class is:Mechanical and Electrical Equipment for Buildings (13th edition)

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