The major objective of this paper is to illustrate how neural network analysis techniques might play an important role in modeling, predicting, and estimating in building services engineering. The paper outlines an understanding of how neural networks operate by way of presenting a focused discussion and illustration of appropriate problems in the different disciplines of architectural and building acoustics, civil and structural engineering and architectural science to which neural network analyses have been applied. Results of these neural network procedures, some of which are presented in this paper, are testimony to the potential of neural networks as a design tool in many areas of endeavor, including building services engineering.
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