ABSTRACT

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.

chapter 1|30 pages

Built environment

chapter 2|29 pages

Energy economics

chapter 3|25 pages

Heat loss calculations

chapter 4|40 pages

Heating

chapter 5|53 pages

Ventilation and air conditioning

chapter 6|27 pages

Hot- and cold-water supplies

chapter 7|16 pages

Soil and waste systems

chapter 8|8 pages

Surface-water drainage

chapter 9|10 pages

Below-ground drainage

chapter 10|21 pages

Condensation in buildings

chapter 11|20 pages

Lighting

chapter 12|11 pages

Gas

chapter 13|30 pages

Electrical installations

chapter 14|28 pages

Room acoustics

chapter 15|12 pages

Fire protection

chapter 16|21 pages

Plant and service areas

chapter 17|10 pages

Mechanical transportation

chapter 18|5 pages

Question bank

chapter 19|9 pages

Understanding units