Building services engineering

Building services engineering (BSE), building services, service engineering or facilities and services planning engineering is a professional engineering discipline that strives to achieve a safe and comfortable indoor environment while minimizing the environmental impact of a building. It is a component of facilities management, and plays a part in the operation and management of physical infrastructure in the built environment. Building services engineering can be considered a subdiscipline of utility engineering, supply engineering and architectural engineering (building engineering), which are all subsets of civil engineering. Building services engineering encompasses the professional disciplines mechanical, electrical and plumbing (MEP), and technical building services, specifically the fields of HVAC and building related sanitary engineering electrical engineering including building automation and building related telecommunications engineering mechanical engineering insofar it is building related, e.g. in the construction of elevators Building services engineering is related to facilities engineering which focusses on the technical facilities of commercial and industrial buildings; and both are part of the larger field of facilities management that is made up of both engineering and non-engineering sub-disciplines.