DesignAID Online Services Overview

DesignAID online services provide architects with comprehensive support to seamlessly integrate service equipment and maintenance solutions into projects, maintaining harmony with the project's conceptual and aesthetic vision.

By treating service equipment as integral design component, designAID elevates their role, transforming them into components that enhance the overall environment's aesthetics.

Professional Integration

DesignAID approaches service planning with a professional perspective, viewing them as opportunities for innovation rather than limitations (constraints).

Exposed Services in Design

Exposed services, such as conveying systems (elevators, escalators), reflected ceilings, lighting systems, and air-conditioning units, are treated as aesthetic complementary components that contribute to interior architectural designs.

Technical Service Requirements

For purely functional technical services, designAID ensures careful planning of spaces to accommodate functionality, circulation, and maneuverability. Examples include and not limited to:

- Industrial kitchens, laundries, and cold storages

- Garbage collection areas

- Power generator rooms and PV battery systems

- Server rooms

- Water reservoirs, heaters, and domestic water treatment plants

- Wastewater treatment plants

- Swimming pool mechanical rooms

- Chillers and HVAC systems

- Storm drainage roofing systems

- Pumping facilities for landscaping irrigation systems

Adequate horizontal and vertical spaces, suchas shafts, ceiling voids, and raised floors, DesignAID support architects how it can be incorporated to ensure smooth operations and efficient maintenance of these facilities.

DesignAID ensures fire safety in full compliance with the standards set by the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA). The NFPA is a globallyrecognized organization that develops and publishes over 800 codes andstandards aimed at enhancing fire safety, electrical safety, and lifeprotection.

Throughits online support system, DesignAID provides comprehensive guidance on key aspects of fire safety, including:

- Emergency egress of escape routes for architectural plans

- Placement of ceiling sprinklers

- Specifications and locations of ceiling and wall signs

- Strategic positioning of fire hydrants and fire extinguishers

- Doors and corridor width for architectural plans

- Outdoor firehydrants, Siamese fire outlets and potential fire engine trucks maneuvering