Building Services

This book suits students taking the City and Guilds 2365 Diploma in line with the 18th Edition of the IET Regulations, i.e. the first year course of an electrical installation apprenticeship. It gives answers to all of the 2365 syllabus learning outcomes, and one chapter is dedicated to each unit of the five units in the City and Guilds course.

Basics Building Technology covers the fields of water supply and disposal, electric installations and energy-related subjects, i.e. The compendium combines the successful volumes Room Conditioning and Water Cycles and supplements these with the two hitherto unpublished volumes Electric Installation and Lighting Design.

A guide for planning and design using active design principles and passive means to satisfy human comfort requirements specifically in hot climate zones. It demonstrates how a design strategy for urban environments and individual buildings can create a location, form and structure that promote significant energy-savings.

The book provides strategies for an energetically sensible and suitable approach to building conditioning as well as its design and constructional integration.

Building physics combines heat and mass transfer, building acoustics, lighting, and indoor air quality, and has a true impact on energy performance and serviceability. This volume focuses on heat, air, moisture transfer and its usage in engineering applications. With examples.

This timely study deals with the heating and cooling of buildings using innovative systems that can reduce fossil fuel and electric energy requirements by as much as 80 percent. It also deals with promises and problems of solar energy use for efficient comfort conditioning.

Suitable for architects, builders, engineers, facility managers, developers, contractors, and design consultants, this book covers the costs and benefits of smart buildings, and the basic design foundations, technology systems, and management systems encompassed within a smart building.