Architecture and Planning
GATE AR Section B1.3: Building Services and Sustainability PYQs
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Question 39
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In traditional Persian context, qanat system refers to
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In an ideal air-conditioning cycle shown below, which of the following statement(s) is/are true in the segments P, Q, R, S?

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A blackbody radiant heating panel of 5 m² surface area at 35 °C surface temperature is located 1 m away from a 1 m² surface at 20 °C. The Stefan-Boltzmann constant is 5.670×10⁻⁸ W m⁻² K⁻⁴. The rate of radiant heat emission by the radiant heating panel (in W, rounded off to two decimal places) is __________.
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Match the Instruments in Group I with the corresponding climate parameters in Group II.
Group I | | Group II | |
|---|---|---|---|
(P) | Pyranometer | (1) | Humidity |
(Q) | Disdrometer | (2) | Wind |
(R) | Hygrometer | (3) | Solar Radiation |
(S) | Anemometer | (4) | Pressure |
| | (5) | Precipitation |
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Which of the following factors impact Daylight Autonomy of a built space?
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The acoustical absorption of a wall panel in each octave band is tabulated below. The Noise Reduction Coefficient of the wall panel (rounded off to two decimal places) is __________.
63 Hz | 125 Hz | 250 Hz | 500 Hz | 1000 Hz | 2000 Hz | 4000 Hz | 8000 Hz | 1600 Hz |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
0.1 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 0.9 |
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A room is maintained at a wet bulb temperature of 25 °C, globe temperature of 30 °C, and air velocity of 0.5 m/s. The decrease in Tropical Summer Index when the air velocity is increased to 3 m/s (in °C, rounded off to two decimal places) is __________.
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As per National Building Code of India, 2016, the function of an Automatic Rescue Device is to
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Which among the following acronyms represents a thermal comfort index?
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A waste water pipe connecting two inspection chambers (IC) is laid at a slope of 1:200. The Invert Level of the starting IC is -50 mm. The Invert level of the second pit at a distance of 40 m from the first IC is
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