e Portfolio : Journey as a QS Degree student: QSB 2714 Building Services 2

Building Services 2 is lectured by Mr Kam Kenn Jhun and his teaching is based on the Taylor's Graduate Capabilities in which it helped to prepare students to meet with global market. Basically, the topics covered in his subject are air-conditioning and mechanical system, vertical transportation system, electrical distribution system, and fire protection system. These services play an important role in the building.

Through this module, I am able to understand more about the functions and operations of the building services system. For example, the air-conditioning system. I finally know where the cool air comes from and where the hot air goes to after attending the theory class. During the class,with the help of lecturer together with critical and creative thinking of mine, I can fully understand the whole operation of all systems.

To have stronger understanding towards this subject, one case study assignment is assigned to us. In a group of 6, we have decided to choose Taylor's University Lakeside Campus as our case study place. From the case study, we have found out some major problems faced by all the users in University. Owing to this, we have come out with some recommendations to improve the efficiency of the building services system. This actually improved our skill on analyzing problems and solving it effectively.

Special thanks from the deepest of our heart should go to the officer from UMC Maintenance Service Department, who had toured us around the campus and providing us with relevant information. Without his explanation and guide along the visit around the University, our report would not be a success. Through this visitation, besides gaining extra knowledge, my communication skill have been developed too. I am able to communicate with the officer whenever I had questions to ask and to be solved.

Besides gaining extra understanding on each system, another thing that could be learnt up is the interpersonal skills such as teamwork,leadership and acting as a team member. Every member in team play important roles in order to complete the tasks within the time frame. For this time, we decided to divide into two leaders : in which one is in charge of report writing and another one is for presentation. All the tasks were being separated equally and thus it helped in quickening the progress of the assignment. Thank you team, for the co-operation and also braving ourselves in order to present well in front of others.

In short, this module is an interesting one as it is closely related to us. All the building services system is serving us daily. Thus, it is important for us to know more in details about the system and this can prevent us from misusing it. As for the Taylor's