Building Services Engineering, 5th edition (2007)

✍ Scribed by Dav Chadderton

• Publisher: Spon Press
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 448
• Edition: 5
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Updated and expanded, this core textbook introduces the range of building services found within modern buildings. In this fifth edition coverage has been broadened as a response to the trend towards low energy mechanical services systems for the heating and cooling of buildings. New chapters have been included on mechanical transportation and on understanding units. Now accompanied by a new instructor’s resource, it is extensively illustrated with fully worked examples of all numerical problems and student-centred problems, complemented by full answers. Suitable for distance learning and with a broad international applicability, Building Services Engineering provides for the higher education of building industry professionals, whether on higher certificate, higher diploma, undergraduate courses or graduate level conversion courses, across the building technology, architectural, surveying and services engineering disciplines.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Preface to fifth edition......Page 12
Acknowledgements......Page 14
Units and constants......Page 15
Symbols......Page 17
1 Built environment......Page 22
2 Energy economics......Page 52
4 Heating......Page 106
5 Ventilation and air conditioning......Page 146
6 Hot- and cold-water supplies......Page 199
7 Soil and waste systems......Page 226
8 Surface-water drainage......Page 242
9 Below-ground drainage......Page 250
10 Condensation in buildings......Page 260
11 Lighting......Page 281
12 Gas......Page 301
13 Electrical installations......Page 312
14 Room acoustics......Page 342
15 Fire protection......Page 370
16 Plant and service areas......Page 382
17 Mechanical transportation......Page 403
18 Question bank......Page 413
19 Understanding units......Page 418
Appendix: answers to questions......Page 427
References......Page 441
Index......Page 443